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Patrick I'm not being an arsehole but it's a shame WHSmith don't do returns on magazines.

I spend 5.70 on your Annual this afternoon to get home to this article.

I'd already stopped buying the monthly because all the decent content is almost always published on here (or on another blog) and without the 4 week wait, spending money or the annoying photographers' cards at the back. This blog is definitely one of the best anywhere and is better than the physical version.

But surely the Annual is worth holding back as an item in it's own right?

This is basically now a magazine version of bit torrenting. Only you're releasing them yourself.

I paid the money so the joke's on me but I feel like everyone in the CR office has just taken a tiny tiny crap in my bank account.
Toben
2009-04-27 18:12:22

@Toben
Sorry you feel like that. It's always tricky to decide what to publish on the Blog and what not but in this case we are talking about two out of almost 100 pages of work in The Annual, plus another 76 in the issue itself. Is that really worthy of a refund?

By publishing stories from the magazine on the blog we hope to give people the opportunity to comment on them and to engage in debate. Most readers tell us that they still prefer to read them in print but welcome the chance to come online to discuss them.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'the four week' wait - magazine content goes on the blog after it has been published in print, not before.

Patrick
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 Patrick Burgoyne
2009-04-27 19:50:51

Hi Patrick

No lost sleep over £5.70 and no refunds (the Glaser essay is very good).
Although I do feel very quietly fleeced that you're publishing more Best In Books on one hand, that's something my nan would probably get angry over, and is best left alone.

It'd be a shame to see the Annual transfered wholesale online. I mean a yearbook is still a yearbook. Even if this year's selection might be a little thin in places, but that's another thing.

Thanks for the quick reply
and on a less complainy note good to see Tom Hingston back in there and Sagmeister still jumps out from the pages. Onto next year......
Toben
2009-04-27 20:53:25

Hi Toben

Let me assure you that The Annual will not be transferred wholesale online - we are just going to highlight the Best in Books, partly in the hope that it prompts people to check out the rest of the selections and partly to initiate debate.

Patrick
 Patrick Burgoyne
2009-04-28 06:56:17

I should also have mentioned that the posts here about Best in Book projects are designed to feature additional content that help explain each project. This doesn't apply so much in this case but more so with the screen-based projects of which there are many this year. So, for example, we have posted the Capitu title sequence with a how-it-was-made film http://www.creativereview.co.uk/crblog/cr-annual-best-in-book-capitu/

Patrick
 Patrick Burgoyne
2009-04-28 09:50:39

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2009-08-04 08:48:24

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