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  • Is the "MagPi" magazine no longer available as a free download?

    From NY@me@privacy.invalid to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Thu Sep 25 10:03:01 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

    Until edition 155 of RPM (a vastly inferior name to the MagPi!) it was possible to download back-issues of the magazine, as long as you waited a
    few weeks after the edition first went on sale. Now it seems that you can
    only get the magazine by subscribing (which you can do for free) but this means that there are editions between 155 and 158 (the current one) that are unavailable.

    Of course MagPi want to make money to cover the cost of producing the
    magazine (even as a PDF version), but which do they not seem to make back issues available for free?

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  • From Mark Fraser@mfraz74@btinternet.com to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Mon Sep 29 19:38:59 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

    On 25/09/2025 10:03, NY wrote:
    Until edition 155 of RPM (a vastly inferior name to the MagPi!) it was possible to download back-issues of the magazine, as long as you waited
    a few weeks after the edition first went on sale. Now it seems that you
    can only get the magazine by subscribing (which you can do for free) but this means that there are editions between 155 and 158 (the current one) that are unavailable.

    Of course MagPi want to make money to cover the cost of producing the magazine (even as a PDF version), but which do they not seem to make
    back issues available for free?

    These links should work. https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/issues/156/pdf/download https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/issues/157/pdf/download

    Issue 158 says I have to wait until 16th October. https://magazine.raspberrypi.com/issues/158/contributions/new

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  • From Christopher Self@cself@btinternet.com to comp.sys.raspberry-pi on Mon Sep 29 19:44:55 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.sys.raspberry-pi

    In article <10b30pf$6lq0$1@dont-email.me>, NY <me@privacy.invalid> wrote:
    Until edition 155 of RPM (a vastly inferior name to the MagPi!) it was possible to download back-issues of the magazine, as long as you waited
    a few weeks after the edition first went on sale. Now it seems that you
    can only get the magazine by subscribing (which you can do for free)
    but this means that there are editions between 155 and 158 (the current
    one) that are unavailable.

    Of course MagPi want to make money to cover the cost of producing the magazine (even as a PDF version), but which do they not seem to make
    back issues available for free?

    It's a free download a few weeks after publication
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