How far back does DDI go?

[SolitonMan]

Hi, just hoping for a quick FYI from someone with a DDI subscription - how far back do the digital magazines - both Dragon and Dungeon, tho I only had the one prefix option - go? Do they pick up where the print editions leave off, or did Wizards go and digitize the print versions for easy access? I was wondering since I got the first 250 issues of Dragon on CD some years back, and figure it'd be easy for them to make it available as part of a subscription.

But knowing their penchant for worrying overmuch about pirating, I'd guess that they haven't added any of the older material to DDI. Thanks in advance for clarification!

 

[Stoat]

Looks to me like they go as far back as June 2008 (Dragon #364 and Dungeon #155). The print editions published by Paizo are not available through the DDI. At least some of the Paizo-era magazines are available in .pdf directly from Paizo.

 

[Chris Knapp]

#364 (June, 2008) is the oldest currently available. They do have select articles from issues 360 to 363 available, but not the compiled issue.

Paizo still has back issues going back many years. Some of the PDFs go back as far as 2000.

 

[SolitonMan]

Cool, thanks for the info. Maybe with some of the talk about changes to the offerings from WotC, they'll consider adding all the past issues of Dungeon and Dragon to the DDI. How cool would that be, every issue from 1 to the present in one easily accessible format?

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Cool, thanks for the info. Maybe with some of the talk about changes to the offerings from WotC, they'll consider adding all the past issues of Dungeon and Dragon to the DDI. How cool would that be, every issue from 1 to the present in one easily accessible format?

They don't have the rights. That's why the CD set is no longer sold. (Technically, TSR didn't have the digital reprint rights, but it's unlikely that WotC somehow managed to go back and get the rights from everyone who contributed to the magazine since the 1970s.)

 

[prosfilaes]

They don't have the rights. That's why the CD set is no longer sold. (Technically, TSR didn't have the digital reprint rights, but it's unlikely that WotC somehow managed to go back and get the rights from everyone who contributed to the magazine since the 1970s.)

Really? Still? In 2008, National Geographic won the deciding case that let it keep its magazines in print as a CD set; why doesn't that protect WotC? Law.com: 11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Really? Still? In 2008, National Geographic won the deciding case that let it keep its magazines in print as a CD set; why doesn't that protect WotC? Law.com: 11th Circuit Sides With National Geographic in Copyright Case

TSR pulled the set long before 2008. It may be that WotC doesn't have the files any more (although I bet Erik Mona has a complete set of pristine issues that could be rescanned).

 

[El Mahdi]

...although I bet Erik Mona has a complete set of pristine issues that could be rescanned.

Yet one more reason to envy Eric Mona...