WIRED Magazine 17+

Slow and cumbersome downloads - June edition was over 500MBs and July is still over 300MBs... this is way too big for a digital magazine download. Supposing we continue to buy the magazine for a year then we'll have maxed out close to 5GBs of our iPad storage just for a single magazine app!... surely this can't be the future of the publishing industry? Considering the sheer number of advertising spots in theses editions too the per-issue price should be much lower than $3.99. I hope Wired are paying attention to these negative reviews because they're more or less spot-on. If August continues like this then I won't be buying again. There's still no indication of a continuation page to each article so readers constantly feel as though they're navigation is all over the place. No zoom, no selectable text, no way to make notes or add bookmarks for future referencing... ie the whole Wired App experience is counter-intuitive to what we've come to appreciate with the iPad. Flattened PNGs via the Adobe InDesign compiler makes for a dreadful digital magazine experience. Also as others have noted below... you have to re-download the previous edition which will burn up another 500MB of your bandwidth. Shameful that a business like Wired could have put out such a shoddy and ill-concevived App.

£2.99 for this magazine!!!!!! From where I am sitting this is an absolute bargain - that said I think the price point is exactly right, and I would like to see all magazines at around this price point - not up to the £5 mark!!!!!! We are saving valuable resources by taking the online edition.

Ok, I admit that the features available with an online magazine can easily outweigh those in paper format, live videos, interacting with objects - it really is cool. But then, for the first time in my Life i am actually taken by the adverts. This medium is seriously going to open up some great creative advertising. Interacting with adverts - seeing the new Mercedes Benz video advert within the advert, clicking a link to take me directly to the buy one get one free clothes offer advertised!!! It rocks. Companies should really get in on the act now, and i hope that the magazines get more from the advertisers to keep this medium cheap for us. I will never pay more for an online subscription than getting a hard copy and I hope these companies take note.

Look forward to the next issue!

If you are unlucky enough to buy an electronic issue of Wired, sit down and read it right now. Pretty much as soon as you finish reading it it will be deleted and you will never see it again. Customer support? Forget it. It doesn't exist.

I bought the first issue that they released. Looked good. I think. Didn't get to read it all. I installed the iPad os update and from that point on the magazine I had already bought started saying click to buy. I contacted customer support and got one email back that read "download it again". How? You can't! You can download the app again but you wont get your magazines back.

Anyone who does not value their customers does not deserve your hard earned cash. Please do not support their poor workmanship and greed. There are far better digital magian available. Zinio for example stores your purchases online so you can get them back anytime and on any machine. That's fair.

Wired you owe me a magazine and I won't be supporting you until you put this right.

I've written to you asking for support and you have chosen to ignore me.

From experience the only way I know how to hit back at being mistreated when normal channels are ignored is to hit you in the pocket, the only place you will listen.

Make one customer happy and he'll tell 10 people how good you are. Upset one customer and he'll tell 100 people how bad you are. How many people do you think I'll turn away from you when they read the truth about your online magazine scam?