The only issues I see are that the quality of the PDF’s uploaded isn’t fantastic. The scanned pages don’t always join up well and the images look quite blurry in a lot of cases. Mind you, as most digital magazines have the function to download PDF’s of the pages, it would only take a few a few single minded users to use them instead of scans and essentially you have the same product for free.

I have no problem at all with Mygazines and wish them the best of British! …in many ways I feel it was inevitable that a site like this started up and I really don’t see the difference between this and all the copyright infringements on YouTube, and music and film distribution via P2P networks.

Rather than try and sue them, publishers should be trying to work with them and try and understand some of the benefits they may reap through realising how content can be distributed through file sharing and social networks….something that not many of them have the slightest clue about.

I really don’t get the name though!!!!

Saw your article. Funny. Understandable given that we have not unveiled our full concept.

That being said, information being free and revenue streams available to those who create the content are not mutually exclusive. The idea for the site and it’s final phase to come, was borne out of a need from the consumer and a lack of response from the publishing industry. Not for money. We are consumers first.

People share magazines everyday with friends and family, coworkers and students to students. Information is already being passed along freely as has been the case forever. Though publishers estimate their circulation including sharing, there is no way for them to know for sure or receive revenue for such. And why reprint an old issue if you’re not sure it will sell? And which issue? The consumer is being robbed of A BUNDLE of past history and information and comparisons in viewpoints over time. Silly, given that all of this information can be made freely available by the publishers to the public and still increase their revenue while further pleasing the consumer.

If there is an even better way for global consumers to share and access information freely and immediately while still benefiting those who create the content, isn’t it a win win?

I will any time and any place. I love the whole concept of it. What a wonderful debate it could/would be. So long as Samir doesn’t cheat. You know what I mean, we accept the challenge, we do our home work and both try to win…. Except he doesn’t try to win too hard and therefore, I lose the long term real debate, by winning the short term one. Not that Samir would do anything like that , you understand.
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Wanting to sue or shut-down this service is, like you suggest, a knee-jerk reaction. There’s probably something there worth watching and learning from — even worth cooperating with.

However, when someone operates with a fictitous name using off-shore servers, it’s hard to “talk with them.”

If there is an interest on such a service by users, why not talk to them (and others) and but some creative mind to it, finding ways how to improve this service and benefit from it …?