The Spin Magazine, Myspace deal happened quietly because It’s all a bunch of nothing

BY SDH So Spin Magazine is spinning the hell out of the fact that they launched a digital edition and is playing it up like its some groundbreaking deal they got into with Myspace. To be honest we don’t even know if it’s even a deal. We took it up on ourselves to browse, Spin’s new digital edition and it’s just your typical digital edition of a print magazine, just an interactive replica of the print version, complete with links etc. All Spin did was launched a digital version and linked it from their Myspace page making it available to their friend’s list and other potential visitors who may visit their page. So what’s with all the hype? Any music magazine publisher could’ve linked their digital version from their Myspace page in hopes of landing more views right? The, magazine is offering its digital edition free for 12 months to land some attention from all the youngins who hang out on Myspace Music. Is the ultimate goal to land new subscribers for the digital or print edition of Spin? Maybe Spin isn’t even doing this to land subscribers. This is just one big stage for advertisers, and record labels to pimp their products and artists on. If this is the case, then kudos to Spin because the ad revenue from this should be sweet.