Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf] • Hacker News Board

Re: Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

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Post by rdela » Sun, Aug 01, 2010, 8:23 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #50

chris_l wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, outside of the U.S. the shipping is a bit expensive. Could we lobby MagCloud to ship from Europe too? And btw. does anyone know of a European MagCloud clone? Seems like a good idea...

If someone in the EU wants to distribute the magazine, perhaps a bulk shipment to the distributer could be arranged (to save on shipping)? I know a flat-rate envelope costs something like $5 to mail internationally, and it can hold a lot of magazines.

someone posted a link to these guys when this was brought up before, they consolidate packages: http://www.shipito.com/consolidation

Re: Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

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Post by petercooper » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 1:09 AM UTC

chris_l wrote: post #46

almost wrote: post #45

This is a link to to the free PDF version. Much better to buy it on paper here: http://www.magcloud.com/browse/Issue/102377 The printing quality (from the last two issues) is great and it's amazing to have it as an actual physical magazine. I've submitted the link to HN if anyone fancies voting it up, it seems a bit silly to have the direct PDF link be the only link on the front page when the whole point of the thing…

Unfortunately, outside of the U.S. the shipping is a bit expensive. Could we lobby MagCloud to ship from Europe too? And btw. does anyone know of a European MagCloud clone? Seems like a good idea...

It cost $10.69 to have issue 2 sent to me here in the UK. Unfortunately the receipt isn't itemized but I don't think the shipping was much.. it arrived very quickly too. I assumed that MagCloud does have a EU based printer, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Re: Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

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Post by cglee » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 8:17 AM UTC

jackowayed wrote: post #11

I'm thinking of getting one of the new Kindles, and being able to read Hacker Monthly on it would be a big selling point. Has anyone put Hacker Monthly on their Kindle? How does that gorgeous PDF translate to the Kindle?

I just emailed the pdf to my Kindle DX. The images are perfect, but the text is very small in portrait mode. As far as I can tell, I can't zoom or enlarge the text. The text becomes much more readable in landscape mode, but the reading columns are split between pages, so I have to go back and forth to read one complete page.

Re: Hacker Monthly #3 [pdf]

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Post by chris_l » Mon, Aug 02, 2010, 10:35 AM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #52

chris_l wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately, outside of the U.S. the shipping is a bit expensive. Could we lobby MagCloud to ship from Europe too? And btw. does anyone know of a European MagCloud clone? Seems like a good idea...

It cost $10.69 to have issue 2 sent to me here in the UK. Unfortunately the receipt isn't itemized but I don't think the shipping was much.. it arrived very quickly too. I assumed that MagCloud does have a EU based printer, but perhaps I'm wrong.

Wow, quite a difference. I paid $13 for shipping, a total of $22 for issue number 1 to come to Germany. Do you receive diplomatic mail or something?