Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Available Wednesdays for Free

Bus industry watchers need no longer wait till the mid-month publication of Buses magazine, or subscribe to the expensive Transportxtra.com daily site from New Transit, or pay a reduced subscription for the PDF version of the fortnightly Bus & Coach Professional.

The publishers of weekly routeONE magazine now offer their entire magazine online, free of charge. This is the latest round in the battle for circulation that sees:

  • The e-book routeONE available on *Wednesday* mornings (today!), one day earlier than the print version arrives. The screen version’s printable. The Wednesday e-publication nicely coincides with rival Coach & Bus Week’s Wednesday printed magazine arrival. There’s currently no need to register or subscribe for routeONE.

  • Annual routeONE contacts directory available in three formats, as a hard copy (not usually sent out), searchable CD-rom (sent to all subscribers), or the first ever online industry directory. CBW offers a hard copy only.
Bus & Coach Buyer also offers a similar, weekly free service to routeONE, though you need to register. And Bus & Coach’s pages are filled with adverts & classifieds, with a smaller amount of news and comment.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The current Route One online version has a photo of a line of the new Arriva Cross Mersey buses for Liverpool-Wirrall services...

...with a caption that says "Recent investment has included Enviro400s for Medway services"

Hopefully that's a mistake, otherwise it's a bit bizarre!

Robi said...

Route One is a good read but... Any coach review, any show review - the DAF / VDL / Paccar always comes out on top.
hmmmm