H&H online and H&H magazine

[asmp]

I’ve recently started reading the magazine every week (through my library app) and have been surprised that articles that appear on the online site don’t get a mention in the magazine. I would happily pay a small amount to read the articles online but don’t want the magazine and H&H don’t give this option. It’s the articles of general interest that I would like to read (at the moment - lump on Shetland, chased to exhaustion, horse injured by Alsation, etc)

I know I get 5 free articles a month but I soon use them up!

 

[reynold]

Exactly the opposite opinion. I subscribe to the print edition and get very annoyed when articles from the print edition are put online the day before the print edition is released.

I can assure you that many of the articles online do appear in (particularly) the news section of the magazine and that too many of the opinion columns appear online first.

I do not want to read much online as I prefer the contrast of print with less overall glare as it's not on a screen. For the same reason I still read physical books and not kindle books.

The veterinary articles lately have also become very good. It's up to you to decide where to pay your money but without our support financially H&H like many other magazines will not survive, including this forum which is supplied for free.

Use it or lose it.

 

[asmp]

Exactly the opposite opinion. I subscribe to the print edition and get very annoyed when articles from the print edition are put online the day before the print edition is released.

I can assure you that many of the articles online do appear in (particularly) the news section of the magazine and that too many of the opinion columns appear online first.

I do not want to read much online as I prefer the contrast of print with less overall glare as it's not on a screen. For the same reason I still read physical books and not kindle books.

The veterinary articles lately have also become very good. It's up to you to decide where to pay your money but without our support financially H&H like many other magazines will not survive, including this forum which is supplied for free.

Use it or lose it.

I agree with the use it or lose it but I wouldn‘t buy the magazine as not enough in it interests me. I also think that the magazine will get some payment from the library system.

I do wish that H&H would introduce a small fee for reading online only though.

 

[Sealine]

You can read the magazine free online via the Libby online library app.

 

[13Jean]

To be honest I find the magazine very poor value atm- this weeks edition was particularly slim!

 

[Orangehorse]

I took out a digital subscription, but didn't like it so cancelled. I try to buy the magazine most weeks, but often it isn't available. I went to get one from WH Smiths last week but there wasn't one, but I spotted it later in the Sainsburys garage.

 

[Parrotperson]

I too would just like a digital subscription. I have no interest in reading the magazine. So it sits in whatever so it’s in on the iPad and no one even opens it. They’re missing a trick by not including the option of just digital. (As well as the ones they have now. Some people do like the magazine. Fair enough. I don’t. But I have to pay to have it. Silly)

 

[Merry neddy man]

To be honest I find the magazine very poor value atm- this weeks edition was particularly slim!

It bugs me when it's a big edition (Badminton etc) and the price goes up, loads more adverts in it that will have paid a premium price but they still put the price up to the customers.

 

[asmp]

It bugs me when it's a big edition (Badminton etc) and the price goes up, loads more adverts in it that will have paid a premium price but they still put the price up to the customers.

Didn’t know they did that!

 

[Tiddlypom]

I'm still a subscriber and tbh I would be happy to get just the digital version. I get free VIP access to H&H news as part of this so can access as many on line news items as I want without a cut off.

I sometimes scan over the paper mag that gets posted to me every week, but the digital version is usually my first port of call.

 

[Bobthecob15]

I bought the print version on subscription but got really annoyed when all the stories each week ended up on their H&H Facebook page first! I've no interest in reading them twice so cancelled. The online only option should be cheaper in my opinion, they'll never sell the paper version when there is nothing new in there...unless you happen to be in it yourself and want a paper copy of course!

 

[catkin]

Been a subscriber to the mag for many many years and still like getting it through the post and then settling down with a coffee for a read. Our copy then gets passed on to a couple of young persons (just as I had hand-me-down copies as a child, so perhaps we're growing future subscribers?)

 

[Ratface]

I've just cancelled my online subscription. Just not interested in the contents anymore, and the quality of the writing was, in my opinion, going downhill.