Free magazines?
A site that offers free online access to national magazines seems too good to be true for consumers and a nightmare for publishers. But that’s what is happening at mygazines.com. It offers free .pdf versions of popular magazines. For how long, who knows? I’m no lawyer, but it seems to be a clear copyright infraction.
While we here at Spending Smart love a bargain, and the word “free” makes us giddy, we would encourage you to use this site to check out magazines – like you were browsing at a newsstand – and subscribe to ones you like. The mygazines Web site has been quite sluggish recently, as word gets out about it and traffic slows the site.
For spending money smarter, here are some magazine subscription suggestions:
- Consumer Reports
- Money
- SmartMoney
