Why we believe in our e-Paper

Our monthly e-Paper compiles four weeks’ worth of content on our website. Anyone who downloads it, can read it off-line. We believe that the e-Paper is valuable, especially in places where internet connectivity cannot be taken for granted. To ensure the download is feasible, we have reduced the size of the e-Paper, and plan to keep it below four MB consistently.

In countries under authoritarian rule, moreover, it is safer to download an e-Paper fast than to stay on our website for an extended period of time. Unfortunately, not all governments welcome our insistence on good governance and human rights. Spy agencies increasingly monitor the web, but keeping track of e-Papers is very difficult.

Those who read the e-Paper as soon as it is published will find that it includes several items that have not yet appeared on the website. Our team is too small to cover breaking news, and we make sure we post something on our website at least six times per week. All of our contributions are original content and was written for D+C/E+Z.

Our e-Paper differs from our print issues, which we publish every two months. The print issues only include a selection of the articles we post on the website. Up to 2014, we published 11 print issues per year, but postal services are expensive and snail mail is slow. We therefore decided to reduce the number of print issues and produce more content online.

For those of our readers who were used to the monthly rhythm, however, we kept producing the e-Paper. Back copies are accessible in our archive (https://www.dandc.eu/en/archive) which, before 2015, indicated the links to the articles contained in any given print issue. The archive is actually a long-term resource. If you like, you can scroll down all the way to a contents page for our print issue of March 2007.

At the beginning of every month, we post the e-Paper on our homepage. If you want to be made aware of every new issue, please subscribe to our newsletter.

If, on the other hand, you’re interested in the print issue, free subscriptions are currently available here.