Today the Paris Review announced it is now offering a digital subscription through the Zinio platform. Digital subs start with this summer’s issue and cost $30 for a year, meaning four issues. Zinio offers an easily accessible PDF iteration of the magazine viewable on iOS devices and on the Web.
The Paris Review is among the elder statesman of lit mags, so it’s significant of a new era that it, too, should go digital under the new editorship of Lorin Stein. So, if you are looking for something to read…
Too bad, Zinio is an abomination. Create a real iPad app, or provide PDFs. (Yes, that’s digital enough for me.) I might actually consider subscribing, as the paradox of the Paris Review is that, since I live in France, it’s international postage rates.
Going PDF is NOT going digital.
Agreed, Bud. And their sample at Zinio is incredibly lame (how could anyone make a decision to subscribe to PR based on looking at an ad for FSG new releases?), which is surprising because their website is pretty good.