_For a more thorough look at the Digital Edition, look “here”:http://emdashes.com/2008/11/the-new-yorker-digital-edition.php. —M.C.S._
I just received a message in my in-box announcing that “the first issue of _The New Yorker_’s digital edition is now available.” This feature is available to anyone who has a subscription, so if you want to check it out, you should hasten to “register”:https://admin.buysub.com/pubs/N3/NYR/entry.jsp?cds_page_id=3638&cds_mag_code=NYR&id=1225745193819&lsid=83081446338013005&vid=1 at the _New Yorker_’s subscription fulfillment website.
It doesn’t seem possible, but apparently anyone with a subscription not only can read the current or recent issues in the digital reader but can also “access any issue”:http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/digitaledition/faq/ from the magazine’s 83 illustrious years of existence. Now that’s what I call added value! If that isn’t a powerful incentive to subscribe, I don’t know what is. _The New Yorker_ is, of course, now well past its four-thousandth issue.
For those of us who bought _The Complete New Yorker_ when it first came out, it’s almost not comprehensible to see the entire archive so prettily available in my browser—but I’ll get used to it! And the reader application does look very snazzy.
More on the interface and accessability as we learn more about it. In the meantime, we congratulate _The New Yorker_ on this bold new era!