Getting a fix of my favourite Spanish magazine here in the UK

September 9, 2013 11:20 AM

I really enjoy reading the monthly magazine "Psychologies" here in the UK and am a loyal subscriber. I found out they have a Spanish edition which would make interesting reading for me, since the articles are different (except a few front cover interviews with stars) and I am also learning Spanish. However the Spanish facebook page only offers a subscription service to people with Spanish postcodes, with no option to pay a dearer price to get it delivered to here in the UK. I have tried a few UK web sites which specialise in magazine subscriptions from here and abroad, and have found a few selling the French edition here but not the Spanish one. I have found one solitary option but it seems incredibly expensive. Overstock.com sells 12 issues to the UK for £120 a year, which I guess is like £10/ $15 an issue. I am keen but not sure I am THAT keen. The price made me wonder if Overstock actually had a Mexican edition and was importing that and sending it from the US given the price was so high. Can anyone think of another source (ideally with a link) or way of obtaining the magazine? I thought of looking up Ebay to see if anyone was selling old copies but didn't have much luck. My Google-Fu is failing me, but I'd be grateful for any help.
posted by AuroraSky to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

Best answer: Have you tried contacting them? Their contact info for English language subscribers in the UK is 0845 872 7385, or email at [e-mail]

If your Spanish is good enough you could call their Spanish line at 902180830 (that probably needs a Spain prefix?) or email them at [e-mail] (note that I don't speak Spanish, but those look right from what I can see). Asking is usually the best way to do these things.
posted by brainmouse at 11:48 AM on September 9, 2013

Best answer: You can buy it on itunes as an app if that helps.
posted by MuffinMan at 12:22 PM on September 9, 2013

Response by poster: Thanks so much for both of these answers, either of which might have been good solutions. I don't actually have an Ipad, but in browsing to see how I could read a magazine on my PC I discovered Zinio.com which lets me access lots of international editions. I bought the current and previous editions of Pychologies, and also the Latin American edition of GQ, and they are easy to read on my laptop. Since my Spanish isn't the best I didn't understand everything and so am maybe not getting as much out of each issue as a Spaniard would, so I am not sure yet if I will subscribe, but the rates were very attractive- for that magazine £15 for 12 issues which sure beats the dead trees method! Interestingly the UK edition of Psychologies costs double that. I guess if they discounted the UK rate too much vs paper then it might cannibalize their own sales, whereas overseas customers for a digital edition might be seen as icing on the cake so prices can be more competitive there. GQ was the same the US edition was way cheaper than the UK one. Since I am a magazine fan hopefully technologies like these will be one answer to the threat of falling magazine circulations.
posted by AuroraSky at 7:51 PM on September 9, 2013

Zinio is weird like that - I can subscribe to Canadian Elle for £5 a year, but the UK edition is something like £36.
posted by mippy at 3:23 AM on September 10, 2013