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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vigilance" data-source="post: 3958898" data-attributes="member: 4275">They didn't "snatch" anything up. This wasn't a hostile takeover from Paizo. The magazines were always Wizards' property and they decided to do something else with them.They've also said there will always be free articles, so yes, I imagine you will get to browse. I'd also guess there will be a monthly model, as well as longer commitments that will be discounted. Sort of the way Marvel does their new e-comics service. No, what they said was that they felt the internet was a place where they could reach more people than print. It's not the content that they are trying to improve, it's the distribution model. Let's be clear, Wizards knows what they're doing here. They have one of the most successful e-gaming businesses around, in Magic Online. The gentlemen in charge of the electronic side of things, as opposed to Chris Thomasson who's an editor, is a longtime veteran of Magic Online, which has high customer satisfaction and is very profitable.So no, they really aren't rookies to providing things online.  Again, I they've said they're going to have free articles every month even when they begin charging for the service. I'm not sure why you want to try to paint this service as an attempt to rope people in blind to a 1 year commitment when we haven't been told a single thing about how the pricing will work.Signs and Portents is great. It also contains a LOT of advertising to support its free status. What Wizards is doing is something different. I think a better analogy is Marvel Digital Comics and Magic Online, both of which seem to be doing rather well getting subscribers.</blockquote>

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