wrote snip IIRC Model Rail offered the 2006 magazines on a CD ( not all articles though) for 30 odd quid, I don't recall seeing a similar offer for
2007, so presumably not enough sales to justify the production costs. Railway Modeller have offered a CD for several years, I've got a few, not sure if they still use the odd / propietary file formats the early ones used. Still under 20 quid I think. It's always stuck me as odd that the most "old fashioned" of the UK mainstream mags. is the only one to sell CDs.
It was the 2004 issues of Model Rail which were available on a CD-ROM. Every page was included including all the advertisements and I think that it cost around £35 compared with Railway Modeller's CD at about £16. When the 2005 issue became due I phoned eMap and got two different versions of why it wasn't available, the first one being that the 2004 issue had not made sufficient profit. This had been produced for them by Publishing Data Services Ltd and distributed by Atlas Publishing of New Milton both of which no doubt required a slice of the cost.
Later at an exhibition I asked Chris Leigh why they weren't doing it and he said that it was copyright issues! According to him, even his own editorial staff would appreciate the convenience of having back copies on CD but they are not allowed to have it. I suggested that contributors would be unlikely to object and he said that advertisers might.
When I reminded Chris that Railway Modeller has been available on CD since
2002 , he said something about Peco Publications being a much smaller operation than eMap which I cannot see as being relevant.
Railway Modeller 2007 is now available on CD for £16.50 post paid but it exclude advertising and Clubs and Societies pages.
Does anyone know if Hornby Magazine is or will be available on CD?