AJN e-paper - the choice is yours - pay or get it free!

Today, however, that sense missing out comes to an end.

Responding to reader demand, this week The AJN has launched a brand new electronic or “e-paper” version of the newspaper, available on a regular desktop or laptop.

Accessed via a separate subscription, The AJN’S e-paper is a full version of the newspaper, with the same look as the print edition

Subscribers can download the latest issue from 4am every Thursday morning to their computer.

The AJN’S e-paper also contains all the video, audio and sharing functionality of the extremely successful ipad edition.

“We were very pleased at the huge interest our readers have taken in our ipad edition,” said AJN operations manager Rod Kenning. “We realised that we wanted to extend the convenience and added value of an electronic edition of the paper to those readers who don’t have an ipad, so we created the epaper version.”

Priced around one-third cheaper than the print edition, an e-paper subscription gives you access to the current week’s newspaper, and the ability to download any previous edition of The AJN during the term of your subscription. Readers will also get access to both the Sydney and Melbourne editions.

The e-paper edition of can be accessed jewishnews.net.au.


AJNWatch readers, of course, were informed last May about the possibilty of getting both editions of the AJN (plus a few thousand other publications - local and overseas) FREE.

For details click here.

NOTE: Another advantage of getting your free e-paper is that it is available on your computer on Wednesday evening.

Read the AJN - FREE!

Now here's some info that you won't get elsewhere.

Most people wouldn't know it, but in addition to its website (which compares most unfavorably with almost any other Jewish newspaper - anywhere), the Jewish News publishes an electronic "smart" edition of both the Melbourne and Sydney newspapers. These include every single page of the paper. The model used is reasonably user-friendly. The current week's edition is usually available to subscribers by Wednesday evening.

Here is a screenshot of the subscription fees, which - strangely - are higher than for the hard copy version. Go figure.

We delved further and found that there is a website "PressDisplay.com" which hosts these and many other (1700) newspapers. They seem to have a totally different price schedule, which, if we understood it correctly, offers the same service (and more) at a far lower cost.

But wait, there's more...

The State Libraries of Victoria and WA subscribe to Press Display, which means that any member of the library can download the newspapers that they host - including the Melbourne and Sydney editions of AJN - free! (We haven't checked it out, but assume that the same situation applies in thr other states' main libraries.)

All you have to do, is go to your State Library website and join up as a member. You will receive a membership card in the mail with details on how to log on - and you will  be able to read the AJN (if you really want to) at no cost.

Here's a few pages from this week's Sydney edition from that website:

And what may be of even greater interest, the Jerusalem Post daily print edition is also available at that site. Here's today's front page: