Digital edition of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision is here!
Very excited that we'll soon be able to offer you the magazine in digital format.
We're still finalising the details on exactly which edition of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision will be the first to be available digitally, but it could be as soon as our June issue 
Initially we'll be selling basic digital copies on the Zinio platform, with plans to explore additional digital delivery options in the future.
The plan is for the magazine to be avaialble at/around the same time as the paper edition, but for just £2.99 per issue.
There will be digital subsciption options as well as single-issue sales available from the off, plus we're working on offering a hybrid subscriptions deal for those who still want the standard magazine but also a digital copy.
Several of our sister magazines have already made the move to Zinio - for example FourFourTwo, Autocar and F1 Racing
More news as we get it....
Very interesting. With the Zinio platform, will I be able to pay the sub and view the magazine on my PC AND my iPad (for the one sub)?
Excellent news, especially as paper copies are becoming hard to find locally, since the 3 newsagents near me have all closed down and our nearest Tesco only seems to stock a couple of copies which it seems to put out early, so i usually miss out.
Very interesting. With the Zinio platform, will I be able to pay the sub and view the magazine on my PC AND my iPad (for the one sub)?
Yep - according to Zinio:
When you purchase something through Zinio -- whether it is from the iPad store or Zinio.com -- you can view it on any of our supported operating systems and devices or directly on Zinio.com
Excellent news, especially as paper copies are becoming hard to find locally, since the 3 newsagents near me have all closed down and our nearest Tesco only seems to stock a couple of copies which it seems to put out early, so i usually miss out.
Can you please let me know which Tesco that is? I can get our circulation team to investigate....
Very interesting. With the Zinio platform, will I be able to pay the sub and view the magazine on my PC AND my iPad (for the one sub)?
Yep - according to Zinio:
When you purchase something through Zinio -- whether it is from the iPad store or Zinio.com -- you can view it on any of our supported operating systems and devices or directly on Zinio.com
Missed that on their website - thanks Clare...
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Thanks Clare.
Will there be any "incentives" to transfer to the digital copy from hard copy ( I am making the assumption here that the digital copy will hit a much wider audience and that the margins will improve over hard copy )
Look again at my point about pricing 
What, apart from the (much) lower price, the fact that international subscribers will be able to get the magazine day and date with UK readers (and at a much lower cost than they used to pay for a subscription that arrived weeks after the issue was published), and the warm glow you'll get at all those trees you've saved?
That's fantastic news Clare. I live in Australa and it's not always easy to get a copy of the mag, and in any event since I've been using an iPad, I have only been subscribing to mags I can get digitally. I like the Zinio platform and will definitely become a digital subscriber.
With Regards to the Zinio platform, while an advertised price of £2.99 might sound great, there is VAT at 20% to be added to that (unfortunately the Government haven't cottoned on to this new fangled technology lark yet), so the final price is more likely to be £3.60, far nearer the printed price, I have been caught out on this on several occasions. Unless of course Clare's price guide is after VAT??
I am not sure the hybrid suggestion will work with Zinio either, as they don't currently have this facility, unless this is something new.
We're still assessing the VAT situation - but even at £3.60 (worse case scenario) you'd be saving almost £1 on the printed mag - and save yet more if you subscribe, obviously.
And the hybrid subscription would be something we offer, rather than Zinio; we have the ability to sell the digital editions ourselves, as well as via Zinio.
As I said, more to come re the details as we get closer to launch.
Very excited that we'll soon be able to offer you the magazine in digital format.
We're still finalising the details on exactly which edition of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision will be the first to be available digitally, but it could be as soon as our June issue 
Initially we'll be selling basic digital copies on the Zinio platform, with plans to explore additional digital delivery options in the future.
The plan is for the magazine to be avaialble at/around the same time as the paper edition, but for just £2.99 per issue.
There will be digital subsciption options as well as single-issue sales available from the off, plus we're working on offering a hybrid subscriptions deal for those who still want the standard magazine but also a digital copy.
Several of our sister magazines have already made the move to Zinio - for example FourFourTwo, Autocar and F1 Racing
More news as we get it....
Hello, I still like to touch the paper and take with me to the beach, trips, etc. It would be very reasonable if the people who purchase the paper magazine somehow got access to donwload also a digital copy for storage purposes (it is easyier to store the digital copy). Will that be possible? Thanks, Pablo.
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Very excited that we'll soon be able to offer you the magazine in digital format.
We're still finalising the details on exactly which edition of What Hi-Fi? Sound and Vision will be the first to be available digitally, but it could be as soon as our June issue
Initially we'll be selling basic digital copies on the Zinio platform, with plans to explore additional digital delivery options in the future.
The plan is for the magazine to be avaialble at/around the same time as the paper edition, but for just £2.99 per issue.
There will be digital subsciption options as well as single-issue sales available from the off, plus we're working on offering a hybrid subscriptions deal for those who still want the standard magazine but also a digital copy.
Several of our sister magazines have already made the move to Zinio - for example FourFourTwo, Autocar and F1 Racing
More news as we get it....
Ooooooh!
That's a bit exciting, look forward to that!
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