Magazines on CD-ROM?

[Brido]

I haven't bought a magazine in a good few years, but they used to advertise a CD-ROM of old issues, just wondering if any of you know if it is still available?

Cheers

[Vic Wertz]

I believe it's no longer in production, but new (that is, not used) stock is available from svgames (and probably others):

http://store.yahoo.com/svgames-store/tsr11448.html

-Vic.
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[Jonathan Drain]

Thanks for the link, I've been looking for that ever since someone bought the last copy on Amazon.com... and subsqeuently put it into "Buy this item used" at double the price.

[transtemporal]

Sorry to hijack your thread Brito, just a wee logical extension to this thread... Do Paizo have any plans to bring out another CD-ROM of past dragon issues (say, since the begining of 3rd ed) or ebook past issues? There must be a huge secondary market in electronic past issues. I'm tellin' ya now, electronic subscriptions are the way to go!

Having just got back into the game, I don't have access to any of the past dragon issues but I'd dearly love to!

[griffrat]

Past dragons, for 3ed to 3.5ed, would be great. Dungeon would be even better!! But that would be a discussion for the other board....;p

[Robert Head]

transtemporal wrote:

Do Paizo have any plans to bring out another CD-ROM of past dragon issues (say, since the begining of 3rd ed) or ebook past issues? There must be a huge secondary market in electronic past issues. I'm tellin' ya now, electronic subscriptions are the way to go!

Having just got back into the game, I don't have access to any of the past dragon issues but I'd dearly love to!

Most back issues are already available.

Regarding electronic back issues, let's just say that we here at Paizo recognize that there is a market for our content in digital form. I can't comment yet on how and when we might begin serving that market.

Thanks for your feedback and ideas!

[Seeker95]

transtemporal wrote:

Do Paizo have any plans to bring out another CD-ROM of past dragon issues

Wouldn't be possible. The license to print that encompassed the contracts with writers and illustrators does not permit re-printing. Re-negotiating the contracts with each author, illustrator and even advertiser would be a nightmare. WotC/TSR had nothing but headache in the first one.

(I of course would immediately buy an update, if Paizo could pull it off!)

[Fendin Foxfast]

If more issues were to be issued on CD, it would make me very happy. However, as AWESOME as it is to have so many back issues on disc, I hope the scans for this hypothetical release would be of higher quality than the original. The pdf's were full of quirks, like pictures with pieces upsidedown, and it was sad when the wonderful work couldn't shine through. That said, I would buy a new one if I had to squint to read every page.

[transtemporal]

Robert Head wrote:

Most back issues are already available.

Regarding electronic back issues, let's just say that we here at Paizo recognize that there is a market for our content in digital form. I can't comment yet on how and when we might begin serving that market.

Thanks Robert but buying backissues would require me to get a whole bunch of magazines shipped to NZ which would be prohibitively expensive. Whenever I order stuff from the states, it basically costs me as much to freight it as it does to buy the item!

Interesting news on the electronic publishing front! Even if the release of the electronic version was delayed by several months, it would still be way worth getting!

[transtemporal]

Seeker wrote:

transtemporal wrote:

Do Paizo have any plans to bring out another CD-ROM of past dragon issues

Wouldn't be possible. The license to print that encompassed the contracts with writers and illustrators does not permit re-printing. Re-negotiating the contracts with each author, illustrator and even advertiser would be a nightmare. WotC/TSR had nothing but headache in the first one.

Thats because WotC still operate in hardcopy mode and probably never anticipated a time when market needs would NOT be fulfilled by hardcopy, so they never bothered negotiating rights to publish content in other mediums.

If Paizo have negotiated contracts with writers and illustrators that restrict them to publication in one medium, they should probably consider re-negotiating current contracts and updating all future contracts to include publication in "current and yet to be discovered media, including, but not limited to..."

[DrewS]

The Dragon Magazine CDROM is the coolest D&D tool I own. I even made copies of it in case I ever lose the originals, get this if you can.

[frank whited]

I'll throw my hat into this areana. I too would support Piazo should they release such a CD-Rom. My dreams of owning all the magazines would finally complete and then I could move on to my true objective - owning ALL the D&D Minatures!!!!!

<evil laugh with dry washing of hands>

F. Whited

[Patrick Jacobs]

I just started collecting Dungeon and Dragon magazine as well as DnD Miniatures. I currently have all Dragon (1-250 on CD) and all of the Miniatures. I only need Issue 2, 3 and 6 of Dungeon magazine. Ebay is my friend.

Pat Jacobs

[Seismo]

Apologies for the OT:

transtemporal, if you don't mind me asking, do you source your magazines locally or buy in from Amazon etc?

[undeaddragonhunter]

For anyone who wants the issues of Dragon # 1-250 (plus The Strategic Review) on CD, I would suggest at leats a weekly visit to e-bay or overstock.com.

[Torg Smith]

I would like past 3.0 and on mags on disc. I have the old archive discs already. What I would really like is to subscribe to the magazine in digital format. I do not want the paper copies as they take up to much space and really hurts to throw out the old issues.

This is a request for a digital only subscription.

Thank you.

[hewhorocks]

digital subscription *drools*
Digital subscription *drools*

Digital back issues *slobbers.....drools....slobbers*

Yeah a good idea......probably just dreaming...unless the library of congress had a subscription...they are archiving everything digitally soon...or so I've heard.

[Sterling Keener]

Dredging up this thread, is there any chance in the future that the search feature on the website could at least point me in the direction of what issue I should be looking for? At least until some electronic versions are available this would help me greatly.

As for types of electronic distributions, I’m fine with watermarked (or DRM) PDFS or even better for me would be an online version where we can do searches (similar to consumerreports.org)

[Vic Wertz]

Sterling Keener wrote:

Dredging up this thread, is there any chance in the future that the search feature on the website could at least point me in the direction of what issue I should be looking for?

The Search box at the upper right searches issue descriptions, which are based on the table of contents for each issue (though we have yet to add descriptions for some of the older Dragon issues.

Currently, these searches also return products in the store and messageboard posts, but next week we expect to launch new search options that allow you to restrict your search to just return Dragon-related results (or just our other titles), or just products in the store, or just messageboard posts.

-Vic.
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[Vic Wertz]

Vic Wertz wrote:

next week we expect to launch new search options that allow you to restrict your search to just return Dragon-related results (or just our other titles), or just products in the store, or just messageboard posts.

-Vic.
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Ta, as they say, da.

-Vic.
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[Sterling Keener]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

next week we expect to launch new search options that allow you to restrict your search to just return Dragon-related results (or just our other titles), or just products in the store, or just messageboard posts.

Ta, as they say, da.

-Vic.

Thanks Vic!

(now if I can just master Geas, maybe I can get every word of every issue included in the search...like the Dragon Magazine Archive....)

Sterling