Sfx

Iv'e been getting Sfx for atleast a year now and even though older people tend to buy it as I'm only 15 I still find it really great. It has in depth interviews with actors and actresses from all the major sci-fi shows especially my faves Buffy and Angel. It also contains a spoiler section for all the major shows and reviews all the latest sci-fi books,videos,movies,DVD's and comics.

I have been reading SFX for well over 10 years now and it still has me reading from cover to cover every issue. It is funny, interesting, and covers everything events, tv shows, movies, books... I cannot count how many books I have bought due to the reviews in SFX, or UK television shows that I have sought out after reading about them in these pages. And I have not been disappointed in any of them. It is written by passionate fans of many genres and is without a doubt my favorite magazine (which says a lot as I get over 30 magazines a month!) and if you subscribe, you get the "subscriber only" covers as well as any nifty posters, buttons, or promos that they give away. I just got an "Arrow" poster with "Fringe" on the other side and it totally made my day!

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I've been a reader of SFX for a few years, and I'm happy to say that it's never let me down. It is consistently outstanding and with it's shiny new redesign, it's not only the coolest looking magazine out there but it's also the best publication for celebrating and navigating all things geek. With a team of extraordinarily talented and passionate writers on board, SFX will keep you up-to-date with all of your favourite sci-fi/fantasy shows, writers, directors, comics, and conventions with entertaining and brilliantly written reviews, interviews, columns, and more. If you love SF/fantasy and horror, then this is the magazine for you! Simply put, SFX is frakkin' awesome. As a geek, I'm so grateful to have found it. So say we all! Sfx

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Harvard Business Review (1-year auto-renewal)

I'm quite a fan of HBR it was an invaluable tool during my MBA and still seems to consistently be able to provide stories which align to the concerns which are top of mind for me on any given day...

However, i must say that for a business which constistently expounds best practice and business leadership, HBR itself is lagging sadly behond the times. I have never experienced such poor service from any magazine i have subscribed to customer service is slow and unhelpful, systems are completely disparate across geographies and online vs print subscriptions, and the staff I have spoken to have been unwilling/unable to help me any time I have called.

The policy of replying to customer queries within 2-3 days is simply archaic!!! HBR you of all organisations should be aware that times are changing, and 72 hours is simply too long to wait for a response on the status of my subscription (which, incidentally, you have charged me for and then "lost" all record of).

Similarly, having your corporate clients sit on hold for 20 mins to speak with a customer service representative, only to be told the phone number provided by the online chat consultant was for a US online subscription help only is too long. To add insult to injury, the representative in your Florida call centre then advised that i needed to call a phone number in the Netherlands you can imagine I was thrilled by the prospect of spending another 20 min on hold at international call rates... luckily i was saved the hassle, because the number i was provided was incorrect and i wasn't able to get through anyway.

So here I stand... I can't get online help because, having not received a publication in 6 months i don't have the cover sheet with my subscription number, and the call centre won't provide it for me. I can spend another 20 min on hold to try and get the CORRECT phone number for the netherlands office but that hardly seems like a productive use of my workday.

I'm afraid you've lost me HBR There is no way i can justify renewing my subscription (i notice you're well on top of sending me renewal specials 6 months before my subscription expires good to see where your priorities lay). You're a great magazine, but i am afraid i am cmpletely turned off by your total inability to practice what you preach. Maybe it's time to get your own house in order?

When I subscribed to this publication I received an e-mail saying that they couldn't give me my user-name yet because of "computer problems". So they gave me a temporary user name (HBROCT) and password. Now a week later I can't get in, and customer service is demanding that I re-subscribe for a more expensive "upgrade". What a crock!

I can do without the hassle, and they can do without my $$ apparently.

You would think that the people that run this org would be way above this kind of cr#p. TWO days for a response? WTH?

I hope others enjoy the subscription they wanted, and that they never have to deal with this places' "customer service".

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I have been a subscription member of HBR for over 2 years now and am a fully subscribed member (Online + Print). The quality of articles and case studies are excellent and definitely worth the reading time. I try not to miss any article in the print issue.

However, on the online front they can do better. For a fully subscribed user, it is a struggle that each time I do a search for any topic, I get a list 80-85 % online articles which I need to "Buy PDF" and just 15 -20 % articles which I can read online. Then why do they charge separate fee for an online subscription in fully paid membership? When I am in travel, I don't want to pull ou my credit card each time to a read an article on a topic of my choice.

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It is very difficult to review a product or in this case a publication that has never arrived.

Little help!!

Where is it? And when can we accept it to arrive?

Linda Drake

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The Harvard Business Review is a very well written publication that has served me well over the last few years of graduate school. I feel the subscription falls short because it does not offer any additional features such as reviewing past editions on-line or down loading the articles. When I wrote to them, this was their (HBR) response:

"We offer an online subscription to hbr.org which includes the following, but would cost an additional subscription price.

What comes with an HBR online subscription?

An online subscription to HBR includes online access to individual full-text HBR articles, but only individual HBR articles and HBR case studies. You may read the articles online but you cannot download the articles.

The subscription does not include access to HBS cases or cases from other academic institutions. Those can only be purchased individually.

HBR case studies differ from other case studies in that the HBR case studies are fictional.

An HBR online subscription does not include access to the PDF reprints, just to the full-text online versions.

The PDF files are reprinted versions. All the past editions of the HBR until about 1960 are available as a part of the online subscription."

This tells me that everything for this publication is an additional charge.

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Camaro Performers

My son loved this magazine for new ideas and learning about new products. We have only received one magazine in the past few months. If it turns out that we will only receive one magazine, I would not recommend this product at all for $19.95.

I have subscribed to this publication for many years now and I am never let down on the content. If you are in to any age Camaro, this is a great read!

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i just recived three copies at once. talk about overload on stuff i want and can't afford. i'm glad i got this mag. it gave me lots of ideas of what i want to do with my '10 Camaro SS. great read and great instructions on how to get things done with this car.

thanks!

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This and other car magazines are a great gift for the man who likes and tinkers with cars. Now he's getting Mustang, Pontiac Performers, and this one to help him restore the three or four old classics from the 1960s and early 1970s that he's got in his home garage.

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Listen : Life With Classical Music

Listen -Life With Classical Music is one of the newer magazines covering classical music and probably the newest magazine covering it in USA/North America. It started modestly a few years ago and has grown to such extent the curent issue (June 2012 or "summer") is 96 pages. The magazine is published quarterly in a full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inch) format on high quality pulp paper as opposed to slick glossy pages. I did not find a webpage listing in the magazine and assume it does not have one.

Compared to other magazines of its type, I'd say Listen tries to be more like Gramophone or BBC Music Magazine insofar as it is full of color advertising, photos and personality pieces. The summer 2012 issue contained only a four-page "Recommended" section that deals with brief reviews of recorded music. The rest of the pages are dedicated to advertising, pieces on performers, composers, their music or musical venues. In no way does Listen compare to review-heavy magazines like American Record Guide or Fanfare; it is definitely long on glitz and, in my mind, short on substance and content.

That's not to say I dislike the magazine. I recieved it first on a freebie basis, then subscribed for a couple years because of the low subscription price and on the chance it would become more substantial as time went on. One definite advantage is Listen is an easy read, sometimes with fairly interesting content like a story an issue or two back about one-hit wonder Hans Rott, whose Symphony in E inspired Gustav Mahler. The current issue has stories on types of dances, dance at the Guggenheim, Ute Lemper and Profofiev's Cinderella, among others.

I think it is improving in terms of comprehensive content but I am disappointed it does not review more new or reissued recordings. From the looks of things, reviews of recordings are an afterthought for Listen. This seems unusual to me since just about any new website or magazine can acquire lots of free new releases from manufacturers by asking. They can receive more by telling the distributors they will give them good reviews.

As an American that's followed classical music and the classical music press for four decades that first subscribed to High Fidelity and Stereo Review, I'd like to liken Listen to them but it's not in the same category, at least not yet. Listen seems more most dedicated to acquiring color advertising and publishing content aimed at beginners. I don't discount that, especially the advertising, as it is an effective way to show readers about new releases. With sound bytes of new recordings available all over the web, it's important for any publication to tell us about new offerings since we can find the rest ourselves.

To me, Listen: Life With Classical Music is best suited to young people or others new or recent to classical music. Most veteran collectors, performers, musicians and followers won't find much new in it. But the price you'll pay for a subscription -2 years (8 isuses) for less than $15 in the blow-in card in the summer issue) -is unbeatable. I don't know what you last bought new for $2 but it probably wasn't a classical music magazine.

I have been a subscriber for the last two years and I must say the magazine is first rate. The interviews are great. Top notch artists have been interviewed (Anne Sophie Mutter, Joshua Bell, Yo Yo Ma etc). The writing is quite good and the magazine is laid out very well. The font size, print quality and reviews are very good.

I like ArkivMusic's 'Listen' all the more because it is published here in America and gives me information on upcoming shows in the US. I agree with another reviewer and wish that this was published more frequently than just four times a year. An excellent value for any classical music fan.

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If you love classical music, you will love this magazine and it is actually for US customers. I have subscribed before to many European classical music magazines which are good, except all events mentioned usually do not pertain to US customers. Good articles and music reviews! I wish it were published more than 4 times a year!

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i FOUND A PRICE OF $13.49 for a 2 TWO YEAR SUBSCRIPTION on the website: webmaster@cinradio.org. Your lower price submission will not accept this as a valid URL. This magazine offer was subsequent to a CD that I ordered through WGUC Daily Broadcast listings when I heard a harp recording that I wanted to purchase and ordered. It was published by ARKIV

Mary Martin

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Biotechniques

Most journals you read in the lab are geared to your speciality These journals have research articles that are reviewed by panels of scientists in the discipline and are publications for advances in science. But "Biotechniques" was ground-breaking in that it published articles on the "how" of science rather than the "what" or "why" of science. The articles are peer-reviewed, but they focus more on applied science, techniques and methods. Articles might feature information about using new instrumentation, or new chemistry, reagents, or a way of doing a particular assay in a new method. It's also a good place to find out about new products and reagents.

If you do bench science in biotech, this magazine could be a valued addition to your monthly mailbox. It's not a research magazine in the usual sense. Instead, it presents small advances that you may be able take back to the lab and use immediately. They're practical, pointed, and presented in specific detail. Some times, they're so specific that they address the performance of specific vendors' instruments or reagents. This is truly a goldmine of hard-working information.

The problem with a commercial goldmine these days is that you have to move about a tonne of ore to get a gram of gold. Likewise, these reports offer pinpoint coverage over the whole map of biotech and if your work isn't exactly at one of those pinpoints, then it's probably a clean miss. There are occasional articles on computation techniques my main interest, but something that no biotech worker can wholly ignore. As with the wet-science articles, the computing reports are very pragmatic. I have to admit, I'm more interested in fundamental algorithms than in rough answers based on clever Perl scripts organizing people's tools and data.

This looks like a great magazine for people solving daily problems in bio/chem labs. Maybe not this month or next but sooner or later, it's bound to have a tip that works for you if you're the right kind of reader. I'm just not.

//wiredweird

PS: Don't let the exaggerated list price put you off. You'll probably see a Biotechniques booth at some trade show some time soon, and you'll find a much better price. One extra rating star for being very affordable.

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The Trail Rider (1-year)

I ride strictly for pleasure and mostly on trails. I like to know about training my horse for the trails and what areas of the country have wonderful trails so this magazine is my favorite horse magazine out of the 4 I receive each month. I bought my horse as a young foal and trained him a lot from the ground, exposing him to things I saw in this magazine so when he was old enough, he would be a great trail horse. No regrets here. The trainer kept him 45 days and marveled at how easy he was to train.

Other great horse magazines in my mind are the Horse Journel, John Lyon's Perfect Horse, Horse Illustrated and Horse and Rider and through them, I stay up to date on training, products and horse care. Only Trail Rider gives me locations to ride at across the United States of America.Horse Illustrated (1-year auto-renewal)Horse & Rider (1-year auto-renewal)Horse Journal (1-year auto-renewal)

beautifully done magazine, great articles, a little to much advertising for my taste but other than that I can't say enough good about it.

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The first year he asked for it as one of his gifts. He enjoyed it enough to ask it to be renewed the next. He has Western Pleasure Quarter Horse breeding mares. Along w/ some he rides.

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just kinda a mediocre magazine, low quality paper, content is boring, graphics are boring, nothing in the issues that make me want to keep them beyond the first flip through. There are others that are better.

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This is not what I expected: it's home movies of various riders, those who can afford expensive getaways abroad & here in the States. And ads. And mostly about gaited horses. Blah blah blah...best mag out there for horse people is "Horse & Rider."

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Powder (1-year auto-renewal)

What can I say about Powder Mag. Its awesome. Don't waste your time on Ski or Skiing. That is unless you want to plan on how to build your multi-million ski cabin at Jackson Hole or plan your vacation to Aspen. Nothing touches Powder with respect to capturing the heart and soul of the powder hound. The photographs are glossy and magnificent and the stories span topics from skining across Patagonia to skiing in Lebanon to paying tribute to pioneers of the skiing community who helped build the sport.

This publication has helped feed my need for the mountains even when I found myself living in flat places over the years. The writing is superb and totally written from a perspective of someone who loves the sport not the LIFESTYLE of living in Vail or Tahoe. All sports specific publications should be this good. Get it now!

Every time I open an issue of Powder, the full-page photography immediately slaps me starry-eyed and twitching from my dull, nearly snowless existence into a world of stunning, winter-bejeweled mountains.

Powder's writing is excellent; combining irreverent fun with a reverence for all things (and all people) snow addicted. This magazine does not take itself too seriously, frequently including bizarre and wildly entertaining letters to the editor complete with Average Joe's often wacky artwork.

I will also praise Powder for something it doesn't do. It does not desecrate its content with articles that read "57 Pickup Lines for the Lift!" or "10 Ski Towns You Could Ruin By Moving To Now!"

Is Powder perfect? Nope. Someone needs to pass along that their font size is so small that it may actually be classified with a negative number. While the photography is jaw dropping, there are a few of us who buy Powder for the articles. Really!

So when the real stuff is not around, try Powder magazine. It may just pull you through.

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I already was a powder subscriber. This deal added another year to my subscription at a great rate! Will renew again

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Very satisfied with the subscription I got. Lots of amazing articles in every magazine. Glad I had purchased this! Always so excited for the next one to be at my door!

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But heck, what powder hound is going to complain about that? It's just that I prefer to read, to get some tips, than I care to see pics of skiers I'll never be able to match.

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ARTnews (1-year auto-renewal)

As an artist, I need to be "in the know" a bit, and ARTnews is one of the 3 magazines I subscribe to for this purpose.

I use it primarily for: # 1, the ads, which are mostly gallery ads, and let me know what is showing, and where. # 2, the exhibit reviews (N.Y., National, International), for the same reason as # 1, and the classifieds, which sometimes give a competition notice not available elsewhere.

Regular departments include: "ARTtalk", which is the lighter side of the news, and "National/International News", which has more of a business slant, obituaries, etc.

Each issue has a "theme". The November 2001 for instance, has fashion design, with 3 articles on art/fashion, and one on Mary McFadden's sculpture collection. It also has "The New Climate", about art after 9/11, from a response by several artists to the loss of a 100 million $ in art.

Also included is a large section on new art books, and the obligatory "avante garde" piece. There are too many "shock art" articles in this magazine for my taste, therefore 4 instead of 5 stars, but I guess some people still consider this a "trend".

Good quality paper, excellent color reproduction, and the wide range of art represented make this a useful magazine for both artist and collector.

ARTnews takes its hits from readers: paper is not high quality, the inks smear after a couple of readings, there is a lot of `outsider art' in the ads and a lot of competitions, schools, prizes etc most of which seem to stress entrance fees over artistic interest, and the reporting seems weighted to out of focus art shows. But there must be some reason it is still around, despite the competition. ARTnews is a quick read, lots of things happemn between its coevers, and it seems to be of more interest to working artsts than to the big gun collectors and museums. That is fine: the art world is bizarre enough in its diffuse goals (when there are some evident!), and this journal seems to satisfy the casual magazine collector. The writing by contributing editors is definitely improving and some of the critiques are very eloquent. A good bargain art periodical

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This magazine, Artforum International and Art in America are all higher on the amazon.com site than on their respective web sites. Super-natural coincidence, or profit-taking?

Beware ArtNews web price, too in the magazine, they are charging 19.98 for 11 issues, but not on the web.

Michael Hawk

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In the other reviews nobody has mentioned that ARTnews has done VERY important investigative reporting and even crusading for the restitution of artworks stolen by the Nazis. They have followed other similar lines over a long period of time. I don't think any other magazine has shown such responsibility. They have been trying but have not yet succeeded in covering art of the nation or world as a whole instead of SOOOOOOO much on NYC. That may almost be too much of a challenge as the art world continues to grow and spread out, and so much of it is available online.

Christy

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Up to date . Great reporting and full of interesting articles.

Would recommend as a gift! A not miss for an up and coming artist.

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