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After creating a free account with Mygazines.com, users are allowed to view all of the thousands of magazines that have been uploaded by other users.  It works like this: a user who has an account with Mygazines uploads a PDF scanned version of a particular magazine, let’s say Entrepreneur magazine.  Once it is uploaded, other users can then view that issue of Entrepreneur.  Very basic concept, similar to many music or file sharing sites.

One of the really cool features of this site is the ability to ‘flip through’ a magazine almost as if you were holding a real copy of it.  Once a user selects a magazines and issue they want to look at, a new window will open up displaying the cover of the scanned magazine.  In that new window the user has the ability to flip through the pages by either using the mouse or the arrow keys as well as zoom in and out on a particular page.

While still in the beta phase, Mygazines.com definitely has room to grow and expand.  There are a limited number of magazines on the site right now, but once this site catches on, most likely many more will be uploaded and available to view.  The major road block to success will be the issue of displaying copyrighted materials.  Hopefully Mygazines.com can get together with the various publishers and make it work.