WIRED UK Edition

posted by Jaitu at 19:04

U.S. technology magazine WIRED has recently launched a U.K. specific edition. There was a short-lived U.K. WIRED a few years back but this is a new start.
I've read and enjoyed WIRED for a good few years now and it's one of the few magazines I subscribe to. As an overseas subscriber of the U.S. edition I received an early opportunity to subscribe to the U.K. edition but decided not to until seeing the first issue and checking out the level of 'overlap'. I picked up the launch issue recently and gave it a quick scan to see how much I recognised. Straight off the bat there were two major multi page articles that I've read before as well as a couple of double page spreads and some other bits and pieces. One of the large articles was on the formula that broke the banking system and had been in the U.S. edition in the last couple of months. The other a brilliant year-old piece on a deep sea salvage team (that has since been optioned for a movie adaptation). It's a mild, though thoroughly understandable, annoyance that an amount of content will be duplicated between the two editions. If the first U.K. issue is any measure the quality and quantity of unique material is sufficient for me to continue with my overseas subscription and with the current U.K. offer of only £24 for twelve issues I am most likely to take up a U.K. sub too.