Comments on: Digital Subscription Now Available!

By: franky5

franky5 — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:05:10 +0000

My main concern about electronic subscriptions is, will it require that my credit card information be held in a server. I have recently canceled an on line subscription because of this fact. If you have ever been a victim when a so-called secure server has been compromised then you will never allow it to happen again.

There is no such thing as a secure server. The ‘Hackers’ conference has revealed shocking information on how insecure things are. We are at war in a new and different way. There are those in this world that want your money and they will get it if you dangle the carrot in front of them.

I would prefer a system that notify’s you when it is time to pay and not hold your credit card number.

By: miathet

miathet — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:30:42 +0000

I have asked for this too except as the annual CD included with the subscription with come discount where a year later the price wouldn’t be significantly better. The electronic one is even better.

On question about the PDF version, does it use Adobe bookmarks so multiple PDFs can be searched at once for the article you want?

By: LanceG

LanceG — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:05:11 +0000

Ugh! Forgot to spell check!

By: LanceG

LanceG — Tue, 31 May 2011 14:03:54 +0000

I love the digital subscription option, nad would love the dual subscription option at a reasonable premium. (I wouldn’t balk at $10)

Regardless of how this develops in the future, I wan to say thank you for doing a great job of listening to you readers.

Also, you all get a HUGE thank you for all of the free content that PW shares on the blogs, videos, etc!! It is the major reason that I became a subscriber: both to support that ethic and because of the consistent quality of the content. Keep up the great work!! (Pass that along too, please!)

-Lance

By: salkield

salkield — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:45:09 +0000

I applaud your magazines decision to go digital. It probably is the wave of the future. Especially when your local post office is staffed by morons that continually damage magazines. However, I don’t see a way to renew my subscription for the lower renewal price.Mother Earth News gives a free digital version if you have a paper subscription. Also,I don’t mean to offend, but the person fielding questions about this should actually be able to answer the questions.

By: Superhero

Superhero — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:56:07 +0000

Me too
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I’d like to convert my paper subscription to a digital subscription…
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I live outside US, delivering time it’s killing me.

By: jrobertkirby

jrobertkirby — Mon, 30 May 2011 15:10:59 +0000

Fantastic! I’m thrilled to be able to carry my subscription with me and not devote any more shelf space to heavy dust magnets. Thanks for leading the way in the digital subscription world. Signed up yesterday. My cats thank you guys for their future free shelf space. Hmmm. I guess those are also heavy dust magnets…

By: MarkHochstein

MarkHochstein — Sun, 29 May 2011 14:19:02 +0000

I’ll third that request. I was also one who requested a digital copy, but with the stipulation that I would not give up my paper copies. I would like to see you throw a bone to your loyal subscribers by giving us the option to subscribe to both for a small increase in my subscription rate ($5). Like tsstahl says above, I don’t really like having to pay for the same information twice, but I will if the increase is small.

By: Megan Fitzpatrick

Megan Fitzpatrick — Sun, 29 May 2011 02:19:53 +0000

Michael, I think the fellow in charge of digital subscription is reading these comments, but I’ll be sure to pass your note along via e-mail, just in case.

By: MichaelP

MichaelP — Sat, 28 May 2011 18:42:44 +0000

Wow that’s great news! Would it be possible to add other payment options for the shop, like Paypal (for example), for us foreigners without a credit card?