Important Announcement - Beyond The Blue Magazine
No doubt many of you have been wondering what has been going on with the magazine over the past few months; well I can now reveal that we will be switching to a FREE digital version of the magazine from 6th April 2007.
Letters are going out to all subscribers to let them know about the changes and to let them know about how to get their subscription refund – but in the meantime, here’s the score.
Having been producing cutting edge diving magazine for over nine years, we have come to realise that the future for special interest magazines is without doubt digital. This format will allow us to give you instant access to the magazine – to download as often as you want and to have a copy at home or at work or both. Please note that this is NOT a pdf style magazine, if you haven’t downloaded our test copy then you won't have seen what we are producing. This is a full-on dive magazine with page turning technology and layout just like a hard copy.
We will put out a message on as many forums as possible as each issue is ready and you can then follow the link to download; we won’t be harvesting your email address, there is no catch, you can download as many times as you like.
We will be sticking with the quaterley format to keep the standard of articles as high as they’ve always been. We aim to keep the overall file-size to a maximum of about 20mb; while this may seem large it should take the basic broadband inter-net connection only couple of minutes to download.
The test version is up there already and the launch date for the first full download edition is 6th April (Good Friday), so you’ll have a chance to catch up with us over the Easter weekend.
Subscription Refunds
As we have had your payment for a subscription then we would like to sort out a refund as we switch to digital. Therefore, all subscribers will have a choice of the following offers:
UK Subscriptions Choice of Bowstone Divers Safety Shears & Pouch
Back issues to make up remainder of subscription
Cash refund to value of remaining subscription
Euro Subscriptions Choice of Bowstone Divers Safety Shears & Knife
Back issues to make up remainder of subscription
Cash refund to value of remaining subscription
World Subscription Choice of Bowstone Hose/Wing Knife
Back issues to make up remainder of subscription
Cash refund to value of remaining subscription
The subscription refund offer IS going to be open-ended as some people may not see messages such as this or have changed address or be away. The knives refund DOESN'T depend on the number of issues you had to go on your subscription - the back issues & cash DOES
If you’re wondering what we are talking about you can see the trial sample on our website –
Diving Magazine - Beyond the Blue Technical Diving Magazines
Please note, as our magazine is a self contained .exe file it can sometimes cause internet security warnings to pop up. This is perfectly normal and is just a warning from your PC. The majority of internet security software will trigger this type of warning. The designers are working on getting a license so this security pop-up can be eliminated.
As we are on deadline I’ll be on and off picking up messages so rather than leave me a PM – if you’ve any questions please drop me a line at
beyondmag@uk2.net
Look forward to seeing what you make of the first issue
Ron