Modern Railways digital subscription

[py_megapixel]

I have had print subscriptions to both Today's Railways and Modern Railways over the past few years, and while I have enjoyed the content the magazines, the desire to minimise usage of paper and plastic, along with the fact that I never seem to have it with me when I want to read it, has led me to cancel.

I am now wondering about purchasing a digital Modern Railways subscription and would like to know whether people would recommend it. Has anyone else had experience with a digital subscription?

 

[PeterC]

I don't know about Modern Railways but my experience of digital magazines / newspapers seems to be a simple image of the print publication with a clicl / swipe to turn the page function. Absolute pigs to read.

 

[GRALISTAIR]

I am now wondering about purchasing a digital Modern Railways subscription and would like to know whether people would recommend it. Has anyone else had experience with a digital subscription?

I switched to digital Modern Railways about 2 years ago because I live in the USA and I absolutely love it. If there is something I want I can expand, screen shot and print. Just love digital. I can recommend

 

[GRALISTAIR]

The other advantage is that digital is published on average about 3 days before the print edition. So really good.

 

[Failed Unit]

I am missing something as I also like the idea of no-paper. The digital version is £4.99 per subsciption and the print is £4.80.

I don't mind paying the same to be honest, but more for saving distribution costs seems a bit odd.

 

[Bletchleyite]

It's the same thing in digital form - works well enough if you like reading on a screen but I prefer a paper magazine.

 

[Bletchleyite]

I am missing something as I also like the idea of no-paper. The digital version is £4.99 per subsciption and the print is £4.80.

I don't mind paying the same to be honest, but more for saving distribution costs seems a bit odd.

VAT applies to ebooks but not paper ones, is it the same for magazines?

 

[Foxcover]

I’ve been using the digital version for a couple of years now - easy to use, no readability or usability issues & personally I wouldn’t go back to paper. It comes out a few days earlier than than the print version, you get an alert when it’s published so you can read it fresh wherever you happen to be, and it’s easy to refer back to older issues. You’ll probably find yourself having to zoom in on small or standard sized tablets - I tend to use a 12” iPad to read magazines so they’re near to real size - but you can pay by the month to see how it works for you, and I think there’s a trial issue you can download for a test run.

 

[py_megapixel]

OK, so I've downloaded the test issue and I'm pretty happy - it's actually one I have in print too so it works for comparison.

I might buy a short subscription and see if I actually get around to reading it - more likely given that I'll have it with me all the time rather than having to remember to take it with me.

 

[takno]

Tends to work out more expensive because you never seem to get the same range of offers with print, and u absolutely hate trying to read it on my phone. If it was even a PDF rather than some stupid reading app I wouldn't mind. That said I haven't had a digital version for about 3 years so I guess there's a chance they've improved it

 

[TUC]

An annual digital subscription to Modern Railways via Amazon Kindle is £34.99 a year (£2.92 a month), plus an initial free 28 day trial.

 

[takno]

An annual digital subscription to Modern Railways via Amazon Kindle is £34.99 a year (£2.92 a month), plus an initial free 28 day trial.

That's a pretty good price. I'm just sore that they included a link to traksy this month and got it wrong!

 

[CrispyUK]

An annual digital subscription to Modern Railways via Amazon Kindle is £34.99 a year (£2.92 a month), plus an initial free 28 day trial.

It’s currently £25.99 (£2.17 per issue) for an annual digital subscription through Pocketmags

 

[GRALISTAIR]

It’s currently £25.99 (£2.17 per issue) for an annual digital subscription through Pocketmags

Yes I am pretty sure that is what I paid approx because I paid in US dollars and did a calculation on the exchange rate.

 

[Geezertronic]

Digital media is mostly in Landscape format time because of the way laptop/desktop screens are which obviously differs from the Portrait format of printed media. There may be specific digital versions that accommodate tablet-type devices by having Portrait formats though

 

[Foxcover]

If you’re subscribing through a magazine portal like PocketMags or through the apple App Store you tend to be given portrait by default - eg Scientific American, Modern Railways, RAIL, Radio Times all have portrait.