American Gardener magazine goes digital
July 27, 2010
My last post was prompted by an article from the latest issue of The American Gardener, the members' magazine of the American Horticultural Society.
What I saved for this separate post was the news that The American Gardener has gone digital. It's now available in a lovely digital turn-the-page-on-the-screen format - and it looks amazing (left, click to enlarge the first page). You can turn the pages, search it, zoom in to individual pages - scale it up to full screen size and it still looks great. There's even an interactive Osmocote ad. And, I might say, it's a step ahead of its venerable equivalent in Britain - no sign of the Royal Horticultural Society magazine The Garden going digital.
The first digital issue of The American Gardener is available free to anyone who cares to take a look - and you should. From the next issue it will only be available to AHS members - seems fair enough, they're the ones who pay their subscription after all. You can join the AHS here.