For a while in college I had a subscription to “The New Yorker”. An English major I really enjoyed reading a lot of the features in The New Yorker, and given the opportunity to get a free subscription for a year by signing up for a new credit card, I jumped on it.
Now all the past issues of New Yorker can be yours, from February 1925-April 2006 on a small 80GB hard drive. A hard drive?
I have to admit I’m a little impressed with the New Yorker on this one. Rather than try and sell you years of The New Yorker individually on CD or DVD, or even access to a website where you can download copies they are going to sell you all of them at once complete with their own hard drive to put them on.
Really, this is a pretty fantastic idea. Rather than take up space on your computers hard drive saving issues you can just plug the external hard drive into your USB port and browse the issues at your leisure. Having the entire thing on its own hard drive makes a lot of sense; especially given the incredible amount of space all of the issues would have taken up if you had actually tried to put them on your computer.
The hard drive contains every short story, poem, article, cartoon, and even ad from 1925 to the present that has appeared, all of which are fully searchable, so if you’re looking for an article you remember reading in college, or even in grammar school, you should be able to locate it.
The hard drive can be purchased on The New Yorker website.
This external hard drive version of their magazine opens the door to other publications doing the same. What are your thoughts on this? Would you buy a hard drive version of your favorite magazine? What magazines would you be willing to buy digitally?