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Linux Voice

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I was browsing in my local WH Smith store today and I came across a magazine called Linux Voice. It's quite unique in that they give 50% of their annual profits to open source organisations and once an issue is 9 months old it's available to download for free:
http://www.linuxvoice.com/

I bought a copy today and I have to say I quite like it. It's a bit more down to earth than other Linux magazines and treats the reader like a regular PC user instead of filling the magazine full of Raspberry Pi hacks and pushing the latest distros.
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Re: Linux Voice

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I like Linux Voice, too. I have subscriptions to Linux Format (print) and Linux Voice (online only). I may drop the Linux Format subscription when it runs out (pricey here in the USA). I think I learn more from LV than from LF, though both have some interesting articles. IMO, LF has way too much coverage of the Raspberry Pi.
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I would love to subscribe to LV but it's too expensive outside of UK. For that price you can have 4 years of subscription to other magazines. This is not serious :?
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Re: Linux Voice

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killer de bug wrote:I would love to subscribe to LV but it's too expensive outside of UK. For that price you can have 4 years of subscription to other magazines. This is not serious :?
A digital subscription is only £38 a year and comes in standard DRM free PDF format so you can access it from any device you like (including your own computer :shock: ).

I've been a subscriber to Retro Gamer for the last couple of years and they do things very differently; instead of making old issues/articles available to download for free they hoard them and release them in special Collector's Guides at £10 a time and, if you want digital, forget it unless you have a Kindle/iPhone etc.

I'm planning to drop my RG subscription in favour of LV as a vote for the way I want magazine companies to do things as much as for the content.
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English Invader wrote: A digital subscription is only £38 a year and comes in standard DRM free PDF format so you can access it from any device you like (including your own computer)
I don't want to read on computer. I prefer to have the book in hand. It's better. I can read in bed, in the train, in...

I use to pay between 20-30 euro a year for 12 num of a french computer sciences magazine when I was young...
Now this mag is out every 2 weeks for 50 euros a year. Paper format.

So LV comes at the same price for a number of release divided by 2 and only numeric version... :(
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