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September 20, 2005
The New Yorker on DVD
"The Complete New Yorker : Eighty Years of the Nation's Greatest Magazine" (Random House)
NPR's Morning Edition today had a feature about an interesting publishing venture: every issue of The New Yorker back to its beginning in 1925 on eight DVDs. The entire content of each issue will be presented in context, as it appeared on the page of the printed issue, complete with cartoons and advertising. Here's the link to The New Yorker's own online ad for the DVD publication. The $63 that amazon.com is charging for the DVD collection is close to what one would pay for a current yearly subscription.
Libraries, of course, have been subscribing to electronic versions of journals for use by their customers for years, first on CD-ROM, then online. But this is one of the first electronic journal publications directed primarily at the end-consumer. (National Geographic is the other notable example, but their publication is now several years old and technology has become exponentially more sophisticated.) From a technology standpoint it can and will become problematic for those of us who are inclined to purchase these DVDs. It is the eternal question: what will I do when DVD is no longer the technology of choice. I will have eight lovely New Yorker coasters, and I'll purchase the new format. (Perhaps by that time, however, I'll be so out of it that I won't care about The New Yorker anymore.)
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Posted by tdr at September 20, 2005 10:43 AM
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