[Chastings]

Originally Posted by Alvin

I was about to use this same method w HPP: I've been a charter Hemmings Muscle Machines subscriber, and look forward to every PRINT issue. Hemmings had a great deal IMO to receive ALL of their magazines IIRC for $25 in digital format. I did this when it was 1st offered and still maintain my HMM PRINT sub AND the digital format for all.

Bonus feature w Digital issues was ability to download all available back issues available for each magazine. Especially handy for use w Hemmings Motor News "Bible" collector car issue with most all ads articles and vehicles & parts For Sale images and URLs are hot linked and option to view company websites and/or Hemmings website listing for more info & images. Also enjoy viewing "other" make, model, yrs that I'd may be interested in learning about; and no "storage issues" with those fat Motor News print copies.*

... was about to do the same with HPP & Hot Rod if it was available...my HPP last issue sub ran out w the 1971 GTO info. I'll purchase the last issue w 1972 GTO info at B&N...and that Brick & Mortar bookstore chain is soon to end up "DARK" same as Borders & HPP IMO.

And it wouldn't surprise me to see HPP, or a similar variant, be resurrected such as MCR, etc. Over the yrs HPP has changed ownership, publishers, etc. and too, as pointed out here many of the articles are by freelance contributors and certainly there is a backlog of already written articles and pix to be published?

*Continuing on the positive - here's the Hemmings Digital Deal link: http://www.hemmings.com/subscribe/di...source=DGTE414

Out of curiosity, do you know how far back you can go on back-issues of digital hemmings?

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Chastings

Out of curiosity, do you know how far back you can go on back-issues of digital hemmings?

Quick check of two for you, available back to issues:
For Muscle Machines April 2011
For Hemmings Motor News December 2010

BTT re: HPP back issue archives w noting current posted circulation of 20,000;

Several yrs ago I took heat & was repeatedly flamed by "Heir Editor" here on a PY thread for my suggestion of a digital index and archive for High Performance Pontiac, back issues, specialty publications and for purchase.
My Examples:

• Birds of Prey VHS Tape conversion to Digital or DVD

• Pontiac Power compilation spiral binding it digital

• High Performance Pontiac 12 month issue Storage Binder re-issue

Was basically slammed and "schooled" as to "waste of time and effort" and would be a $$$ loser. So, even though the aftermarket vendors are selling them still in original format, "no way Jose" on conversion to digital.
IIRC - It was expressed there were ONLY 3 full timers on HPP staff, and my "outlandish" ideas were nothing more than "dreamscape" due to lack of staffing and funding due to low volume sales potential.

The Takeaway: Anyone who's known HPP from the begining is aware that the magazine has bounced from one Parent Publisher to another, hence the disjointed availability of previous publication archives is my WAG. But wadda I know? Nada!

To be fair, I'd like to say that HPP's website has been something that does have online archive info from their recent years. I'd hope that all content can and will be saved somehow. And I'll now covet my bound editions more than ever before.

Also; regardless of how I feel about Hot Rod, Car Crap, PHR, et al; it would be an epic loss to the automotive hobby in general if the recently rediscovered cache of "lost" photo and information history discovered during the moving of Hot Rod corporate office were lost again, for all of time.