Magazine Deals in Toronto

"Fearless. Witty. Thoughtful. Canadian." If this description of The Walrus magazine also describes you, then you'll want to check out this free-sample offer!

Sign up for the special trial offer on this page and receive two free sample copies of The Walrus, delivered to your mailing address. Your free samples will come with an invoice, which you can choose to pay if you would like to continue a paid subscription. If you only want your two free copies, then don't pay the invoice. If you do want to continue, you will have the option of a one-year subscription for $23.80 (8 additional copies) or a two-year subscription for $39.75 (18 additional copies).

For more information on The Walrus, visit their website.

If doing more leisure reading is one of your New Year's resolutions, then you might be interested in this special offer from National Geographic. For a limited time, you can get 12 monthly magazine issues of National Geographic for $16 (GST included). Click here for more details (refer to the bottom-left fine print for the Canadian price and delivery info).

If you like to go paperless, this one-year subscription entitles you to the iPad version at no extra cost. The offer also includes a one-year membership in the National Geographic Society. Your first issue will be delivered to you approximately 4 to 6 weeks from the time you placed your order, however, some of our Forum members have reported receiving a customer id the following day to access their free iPad version. Click here for more Forum discussion.

If you're looking for some interesting reading to increase your knowledge of business, TradePub has some free business eBooks and summaries that you should take a look at.

• Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success with Less Stress – Free Book Summary
• Capitalism 4.0: The Birth of a New Economy in the Aftermath of Crisis -- Free Book Summary
• Zombie Economics: How Dead Ideas Still Walk Among Us – Free Book Summary
• Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently – Free Book Summary

TradePub is a free magazine and information service that offers subscriptions and documents to industry-specific publications. You can find more publications available to Canadians here.

Looking to do some business reading? If so, have a look at RedFlagDeals.TradePub.com, which offers lots free business resources. Among other things, there are subscriptions to trade publications, free business book summaries, and white papers. Everything is free to professionals who qualify. Here are some popular selections:

• Oracle Magazine: Published bimonthly and distributed to more than 550,000 of the top IT managers, database administrators, and developers, Oracle contains technology strategy articles, sample code, tips, Oracle and partner news, how to articles for developers and DBAs, and more.
• NASA Tech Briefs: The monthly magazine features exclusive reports of innovations developed by NASA and its industry partners/contractors that can be applied to develop new/improved products and solve engineering or manufacturing problems.
• Profit Magazine: This magazine provides business leaders with a road map on turning their technology investments into top and bottom line advantages. At the same time, it sheds light on Oracle's product and service strategies and how they'll impact your business
• "Worst Practices in Business Intelligence: Why BI Applications Succeed Where BI Tools Fail" White Paper
• "An In-Depth Look at ROI" White Paper
• "Enterprise Risk Management: Keeping People, Assets, and the Environment Safe" White Paper

RedFlagDeals.TradePub.com, which is a free trade magazine service, has introduced some new publications that are geared specifically toward Canadians. Subscriptions are free provided you belong to a relevant industry. Here's a look at 4 Canadian-only publications.

• Canadian Electronics: This magazine keeps readers informed about news, products and service developments in the industry. Technology feature sections include both applications stories and product announcements in segments such as power supplies, connectors, wire and cable, test and measurement, switches and more.
• Plant Engineering and Maintenance: This is a magazine for industrial engineers, plant operations and maintenance professionals. Gain insight on how to increase manufacturing production and equipment uptime, integrate new technology, reduce operating costs, manage groups of skilled professionals in an industrial setting and encourage career development.
• EP&T - Electronic Products and Technology: This publication provides technical information and product news, application articles and design tutorials. All areas of electronics are covered in the editorial content and the information is combined with regional reports, industry trends, distributor and representative news and news on environmental compliance concerns.
• Canadian Metalworking: This publication provides readers with technical information, how-to-articles, technology updates. It's a valuable resource when making purchasing decisions about machinery and services to improve your business.

TradePub also has other useful features like whitepapers, podcasts, free business book summaries, and assorted downloads. Have a look around and see what you can do for your business!

Some oft repeated career advice is to "stay on top of your field" -- it's always a good idea to know about developments and trends in your industry. RedFlagDeals.TradePub.com, which is a free trade magazine service, can help you with that. Subscriptions to industry specific publications are free as long as you're in a qualifying industry/position. Here are some interesting titles that are available to Canadians:

• Best's Review: This magazine contains insightful, award-winning news coverage of the worldwide insurance industry. It is written for insurance company executives, agents, brokers, analysts, risk managers, underwriters, attorneys and other insurance professionals. It covers topics like agent/broker issues, health and employee benefits, life insurance, property/casualty insurance, regulatory and legal developments, capital markets and technology.
• eWeek Magazine: This publication delivers breaking news, technology evaluations and strategic analysis covering the technologies, platforms and trends important to enterprise-wide computing.
• Risk Magazine: Every month Risk covers the latest developments in exchange-traded and OTC products, regulatory and documentation issues, academic papers, practical trading and investment strategies – taking complex material and delivering it in an easily digestible style.
• sp2 Magazine: Published monthly, coverage includes technological advances that drive research and innovation, as well as product development through key topics including: discovery biology/chemistry, biomanufacturing, bioprocessing and fine chemistry. The sp2 audience is senior R&D executives to bench scientists from pharma, biotech and emerging pharma.

If you have a look around, you'll also find other resources like whitepapers, book summaries, and podcasts.

TradePub.com, a magazine service that offers free subscriptions and samples to qualified individuals, is offering 4 issues of Business Week and their digital playbook: Power Plays for free! Subscriptions are free as long as you work in an industry relevant to their intended demographics.

If you qualify and you like what you see, you can continue the subscription with 21 more issues for $20 Canadian, or 46 additional issues for $30. Either package works out to less than a dollar per issue, which is also well below newsstand pricing. You do have to select a subscription option right off the bat, but you can just keep the 4 issues and owe nothing by marking the bill "cancel" and returning it.