Comments on: Dead Point Magazine Now Offers PDF Download, Kinda

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 15:14:42 +0000

donkey – I did post a direct link to there site above in the original post, very first sentence. And here it is again: http://www.deadpointmag.com/

I didn’t link directly to the their reader/current issue simply because I thought it was easier and more beneficial to my readers to hit the front page of Dead Point first where in addition to the new issue they always have new videos to check out as well.

If I didn’t like the content and what they’re trying to do, I wouldn’t waste my time talking about them at all and making constructive criticism.

Neither Narc nor myself are “pissed because you canâ??t put their content on your site.” To my knowledge, neither of our blogs steal content from anyone’s website nor ever will.

By: donkey

donkey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:36:41 +0000

Why wouldn’t you just post a direct link to their magazine. It sounds like you guys are pissed because you can’t put their content on your site.

By: Tom Markiewicz

Tom Markiewicz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:10:51 +0000

I agree the new reader is definitely better and that some progress is better than none. I just don’t understand what they’re thinking though with the whole PDF thing. It would only help them when blogs like ours directly link to the PDF and help distribute. They would still know exactly how many downloads they’ve had so it’s not like they lose any metrics.

By: Narc

Narc — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:01:46 +0000

That was a bit annoying. Overall, I thought the new reader worked much better than the original implemenation. A PDF offers basically the same interface I suppose. At least it looks like they are willing to listen to feedback and adapt.