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Originally Posted by BearMountainBooks
Have you tried buying those magazines direct from the publisher site? When I was reading short stories/magazines, I used to buy most of them direct...although the Ellery I think I bought in B&N. (I didn't have a subscription either. I just occasionally bought issues.) I know Black Gate used to sell direct and I'm pretty sure they didn't have DRM. I was buying electronic copies by then.
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Should have mentioned -- the only mags I'm currently interested in are Asimov, Analog, and Outdoor Photographer. Both Asimov and Analog redirect to the usual suspects (Amazon, Kobo, etc) and Outdoor Photographer redirects to those plus Zinio.
I've no experience w/Zinio (Windows 8 supported), but if it's anything like the Amazon Windows 8 version it is pretty useless. I still use the pre-version 8 of Amazon kindle on Windows 8.1 machine to get simple files in standard formats. I already get a lot of SFF short stories free (including ones from Rusch each Monday), so I don't lack for reading materials. But I would like some of the stories on those particular mags. If I can't get them that way, I'll have to wait till they show up in anthologies/collections (for SFF), and just sit the OP out. I was a dead-tree subscriber for 8 years, but moving soon to a very small, moving space, and all mags and all but a couple of physical books have to go.