Monday, June 8, 2020

Update on eMagazines

As you know, we provide patrons with access to eMagazines through two providers: Flipster and RBDigital.

There are a few reasons for using two separate interfaces for eMagazines.  Some titles are available from one vendor, but not the other.  Another reason is that a title may have a substantial difference in price on one platform as compared to the other. 

Below is a list of titles that we are adding for Fiscal Year 2021, which begins on July.  We were able to purchase these titles through savings from canceling a title, and moving several titles from one platform to the other.

New eMagazine titles for FY2021:

  • Architectural Digest-Flipster
  • Atlantic, the-Flipster
  • Southern Boating-Flipster
  • Vogue-Flipster
  • Antique Trader-RBDigital
  • Architectural Digest India-RBDigital
  • Garden & Gun-RBDigital
  • New York Magazine-RBDigital
  • New York Review of Books, the-RBDigital
  • PC Gamer-RBDigital
  • Reminisce-RBDigital
  • Southern Lady-RBDigital
eMagazines switching platforms in FY2021:
  • Discover-Moving to RBDigital
  • This Old House-Moving to RBDigital
  • the New Yorker-Moving to Flipster
  • Vanity Fair-Moving to Flipster
eMagazines being canceled for FY2021:
  • Entertainment Weekly-from Flipster; high cost to renew; high cost per use in FY2020; no longer a weekly publication
Again, dropping EW and moving several titles between platforms (for substantial savings) allowed us to purchase the new titles for a very small cost.  A list of titles for both platforms for FY2021 will be posted to Sharepoint.

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