Library offers free digital magazines

Published on 11 December 2017

11 December 2017

Whanganui District Library is excited to announce a new service.

Customers can now access digital magazines on their computers or mobile devices. The service is offered through RB Digital, world leaders in providing digital content to consumers.

Customers can browse magazines online or download the app. The eMagazines are full digital versions of the print editions, including editorial content, graphics and advertising.

Some of the library’s most popular magazines, including Time and Australian Women’s Weekly, will be instantly accessible anywhere.

Library Performance Manager Sonny Tamihana says, “Customers will be able to read current and past titles, at no cost to borrow with no waiting or loan periods, no overdue charges and no limit to the number of checkouts. They can opt into alert emails informing them the moment the latest edition of their favourite magazine is available.”

Mr Tamihana says the service will be of great interest to longstanding and new library members. News of the new service, he says, is already reaching the public.

“One resident, who has been a Whanganui resident for thirty years without joining the library, joined the day she heard about it. We hope others will be equally thrilled and that this service will make reading more accessible to people, opening the world of books to many more Whanganui residents.”