Maghound Will Let You Order Your Magazines Like Netflix

Netflix has, by most accounts, changed the face of DVD rentals in America. Though Blockbuster, Hollywood Video and others have been feeling the pinch for a few years now, magazine stands and grocery stores the nation over could be next in line.

Time Inc. has finally released its Netflix-like magazine service known as Maghound, which allows subscribers to pick and choose multiple magazines to be delivered without signing up for subscriptions to each magazine.



You can sign up with Maghound at the flat subscription rate of 3 magazine titles for $4.95 a month. Additional tiers are available, with the second tier offering 5 magazine titles for $7.95 a month.

While there are currently only 230 titles available, Maghound is looking to add an additional 70 by the years end, with plans for continued expansion thereafter. But, after doing the math, even choosing the first tier magazine plan at $4.95 for 3 magazine titles a month still amounts to $20 per magazine at the year's end, which, though not entirely bad, isn't that great, either.

Considering that the Maghound is run by Time Inc., it shouldn't be too hard to entice other magazines to jump on. But there's still no way of knowing if Maghound can expand its inventory enough to make it attractive to everyone.

Perhaps if and when they expand their offering to include those cooky ‘zines all my friends keep impoverishing themselves to make, I'll finally jump aboard, but until then, I'll read my Entertainment Weekly visibly and unashamedly at the library like everyone else.

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