S&T Digital Is Here!

[glenc]

Digital subscriptions cost US$29.95 per year (A$31.50), compared to US$37.95 for a paper subscription in the U.S. — or much more for overseas subscribers.

If you want to see what the digital edition looks and feels like, try our sample issue. Click here for the Sky & Telescope digital subscription (http://media.skyandtelescope.com/documents/sky_digital_LP.html), then click on View a Sample Issue (May 2010) near the bottom of the page. (You need broadband!)

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/103537374.html

[Blue Skies]

Thanks for the heads up. I'm seriously considering doing this as I don't have the space to store all the issues anymore but do like to read them (I get both the US and Aus editions). My subscription is coming up for renewal soon so this is very timely.

[TrevorW]

I'm just old school. I like something tactile, really can't be bothered with online subsciptions, I've had a few, often I didn't keep up with them, so evntually I'd let them lapse. I'm the same with these Ebook readers or reading a book online.

[noswonky]

I tried the sample issue on the iPad. It accesses the Internet every time you turn the page!

If it could be downloaded and read while offline, it would be good.

[acropolite]

Not really an issue if you're using a broadband wi-fi connection, how did the pages look on the iPad?

[noswonky]

It looked good on the iPad. However, the navigation controls are quite different from those on a standard browser (I tried it on a Mac with chrome). On the iPad it's a bit clunky, but still quite usable. It does support pinch zoom and scrolling around on the page once zoomed in. But no swipe to turn pages - you have to just tap on the edge of a page to load the next page.

[glenc]

You can save it and use it without the internet.
There is an icon at the top right to save it.

[higginsdj]

And on the desktop save option there is a download PDF version of the magazine as well.

[gbeal]

This is great. I tried it yesterday when the original post came out, and thought it was great, but was dismayed at having to be hooked up to view it.
Then I read you can download it and save it to the desktop, and I now have it on the iPad.
This is what I have been waiting patiently for, and will likely get me back into the subscriptions.
Great work.
Gary

[glenc]

I just signed up and read the November S&T as a pdf. (17.1 Mb, 88 pages)
The digital copy is less than half price compared to having it posted out to Oz.

[glenc]

"The universe is approximately 13.7 billion years old. Were it not expanding, the farthest
object we could see now would be 13.7 billion light-years distant. But the universe is expanding, and the space
through which light travels grows. Given the observed rate of expansion, astronomers estimate that the radius
of the observable universe is around three times greater than if the universe were stationary, or about 47 billion
light-years." Alan Hirshfeld

[higginsdj]

I just signed up and am a little dismayed that I didn't get what was promised..... "Bonus. Sign up today and get full access to the Sky digital library". All attempts to view anything other than the current edition in the library return an "Access Denied"......

Cheers