Will there be a Gramophone Guide for 2013?

Hello,

There won't be a 2013 Gramophone Guide published - but we will be launching a new digital product soon which we hope will prove of interest to you all.

Martin

Let's just hope the "digital product" is a little bit cheaper than the paper version. One mortgage is enough for now.......

> …a new digital product soon…

This is really bad news!

I have tried the Digital subscription to the magazine and it's been a disaster… SAC not working; inability to log in; constant spurious reminders that my subscription is about to expire (it isn't); inability to Restore etc.

Clearly it was launched prematurely.

I've been a G. reader since the 1960s; I know my way around technology. This marriage has failed.

I must say I very much agree with pgraber.  I have had no problems and new issues arrive as they should along with e-mail notification.

The archive is really invaluable and very precious. I cannot understand the complaint that it should be available free. I do hope though that in due course the search functionality will be improved.  I'm not talking about elaborate search facilities: simple things like being able to search slightly less specifically than one issue (say one year or one volume or between specified dates) would make searching much faster.

One other thing I hope you might consider when you next 'revamp' the Gramophone magazine.  The font used for the main text is very elegant on paper but not ideally suited to viewing in small size on the computer.  It is very obvious that those sections that occur in a sans serif font are much more easily read than the main text.  I expect in time the electronic version of the magazine will have an increasing proportion of your subscribers: perhaps in due course you could reconsider the fonts you use with the digital readership in mind.

Overall though I do think congratulations are due. The main reason I find searching rather slow is the discovery of so many interesting detours en route!

Chris