Back when the Forum was still young, I started making threads on individual issues of DWM since I found issues 1-200 on archive.org. I made it through Issue #5 (with a side step into #175 when we started the Book Club with Timewyrm: Genesys). I get that they want to get people to subscribe for newer issues, but I’d love it if there were an easy way to read the older issues. I’d love a collected edition where you have several issues in a single book (like Panini does with the comic collections). I’d love it if they were to collect the first 350 issues into a multi-volume set. (I picked #350 because that takes us through the end of 2004. It’s a lot of content that no one can read unless they were collecting back then, and it’s old enough [20 years] that it’s not encroaching on any potential subscriptions.) What are your thoughts on the availablity (or lack thereof) of back issues of DWM?
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I haven’t read a great deal of DWM, but I think it is an interesting idea. I bought four back issues of DWM for $1 each at Who North America (I enjoyed them a lot, and wish I had bought more back issues when I was there). Volumes might be interesting, but I could see something like the Times Machine digital archive that the New York Times has a subscriber benefit being fun also. [1] I suppose it is possible that there might be copyright complications, though.
The Times Machine is a section of the New York Times website where subscribers can look at digitized scans of previous issues of the newspaper. ↩︎
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