Free magazines on Fashion, Photography, Playboy and more

August 10, 2008 · Filed Under How To and Online Tutorials · 4 Comments
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Free Playboy, Penthouse magazine and more

Here is a little tutorial on how to read 20 different magazines for free legally online, yes, you heard me loud and clear, it is totally legal. The pro and cons of this free service are:

No subscription charges
Only requires Firefox or Safari browser
Its free and the content is the same
High resolution images for easy reading
Not all issues are up to date, usually a month or two behind the actual release

Now, I bet you must be wondering why they are making these magazines available for free? Magazine publishers do not make a single dime from printing magazines, in fact, they’re subsidizing the magazine so that it is affordable to everyone, what they want in return are eyeballs, the more circulation they have they more advertising dollars they get, simple as that. The following titles are available for free:

Reader’s Digest
Macworld
Macworld Espanol
PC Magazine
Technology Review
Lonely Planet
Outside
Popular Photography
Saveur
US News and World Report
Men’s Health
Kiplingers
Popular Mechanics
Car and Driver
Viv
Elle
Playboy
Penthouse

What is the catch? Truth is, there are none. Zinio is a company that sells the soft copy version of almost every magazines available in the market for half the price. Currently they’re giving out free magazines to iPhone users, and in order to read these magazines for free using your laptop or desktop, you’ll need to tell the website that you’re browser (user agent) is an iPhone. Here goes:

Apple Safari Browser

Step 1 – Go to ‘Edit’ then ‘Preferences’

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Step 2 – A new Window/Dialog box will pop up, under the advance tab, check the ’show develop menu in menu bar’

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Step 3 – a new menu (develop) will appear in the menu bar, select ‘Develop’ then ‘User Agent’ and finally change the user agent to ‘mobile safari 1.1.3 – iPhone’

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Step 4 – Visit www.zinio.com/iphone for the free magazines.
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Mozilla Firefox 3 Browser

For firefox user, install User Agent Switcher plugin, this plugin will adds a menu and a toolbar button to switch the user agent of Firefox, simply change the user agent to iPhone and visit the following url – www.zinio.com/iphone

Download the entire magazine for offline reading

Digital Quest has a cool tutorial on how to browse the magazine offline, no hack or crack or any pirated software needed, just a simple and legal tools available, think out of the box. How to download magazines from Zinio.