It’s good to see more paper based publications go fully digital these days, but ONBOARD Magazine is taking one step further by establishing their name and magazine as a digital only publication. The idea of paper based printing is becoming a thing of the past as the digital lifestyle becomes easier and cheaper for people to consume and for companies to produce. Not to mention that using less paper helps the environment in many ways. ONBOARD Digital will be a forever FREE snowboarding mag that will include a “multimedia blend of action packed video, amazing images, animated flash and funny-ass text delivering complete coverage of all that is snowboarding this season”.

I hope that more publications get the hint and start to provide their magazines online and for FREE. The key word being FREE because most publications make 99% of their earnings potential through embedded advertisements within content. FHM magazine is a classic example of how things are changing. FHM recently dumped their paper based magazine in the US and are now completely online. Fact is they probably couldn’t afford it, or it didn’t make sense to maintain their traditional paper based magazine because most of us head online anyway to get the latest updates.

The premiere issue of ONBOARD Mag will be available on October 17th with a new issue available every two weeks after that. All you have to do is sign up and each new issue will be delivered right to your email address. People that sign up before the first issue automatically get entered to win a full setup from Forum snowboards.