New magazine issue notifications

October 10, 2014 11:54 PM

I'd like a service that notifies me when a new issue of a magazine of choice comes out. Is there such a service that explicitly provides such a service or an existing solution that can be configured to provide such a service? Ideally, this wouldn't mean subscribing to the magazine, just merely a notification that a new issue from the magazine is available.
posted by nathanm to Technology (3 answers total)

Subscribing to the email list for a publication will often serve this purpose.
posted by ocherdraco at 7:54 AM on October 11, 2014

If you're just talking about one particular magazine, and not looking for a solution that would help you keep track of any magazine, it might be worth checking to see if that magazine's website has an RSS feed that correlates with new issues being released. If so, there are a lot of solutions for accessing RSS feeds. (I've been using the "Feeder" Chrome plugin after the one I was using previously was bought out and started incorporated adware.) Or I think something like Yahoo Pipes could be set up to send you an email whenever a new entry pops up on the feed?
posted by nobody at 10:02 AM on October 11, 2014

Do you mean on newsstands? I think you could use a magazine app like Zinio to get notified about new digital issues for a list of magazines you're interested in, and I'm assuming that would correspond with physical issues...
posted by three_red_balloons at 10:13 AM on October 11, 2014