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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
I wonder when these publishers will put a halt to the ready availability of free magazines through libraries and condensed offerings from their websites and aggregators like Pulse and Flipboard?
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Coincidentally, this came out three days ago:
Wired and The New Yorker are suspending efforts to sell ads on the platform and replacing their robust Flipboard feeds next month with spartan versions that summon their own websites if readers want whole articles.
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Why pay for a subscription to Consumer Reports when you can get full online access from the library?
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While I use the library periodical services, I find them a far harder-to-use source of Kindle reading matter than Overdrive for books.
Recent find worth the trouble: "My Friend Matt,"
Commentary, June 2012. It's written by Joseph Epstein, who deserves to be published in a much better magazine.