Official Xbox Mag (US) PDFs from Publisher?

[kartracer3]

I was looking through my digital magazine files and found 118 PDFs of OXM ranging from 2001 to 2011. I had completely forgotten about them. There was a blurb at the bottom of one of the pages linking to this URL where you could download back issues from the publisher.  I was curious if anyone else downloaded them like I did or if they would be useful to archive on the site.

[MigJmz]

i would like a copy of these since i never bothered getting them.

Can you put them in a zip and upload to Mega?

[Shideravan]

I would appreciate it too 

[E-Day]

There are 80 in the batch that The Video Game History Foundation had scanned. They need to be renamed but I can eventually make the PDFs available, though they will eventually show up on Internet Archive from the VGHF. They'll show up here as CBZ files as well at some point.

[kartracer3]

Sounds good, just wanted to make sure that I wasn't sitting on something unique that other people would benefit from.

[Realmguardian]

Are these digital issues the ones without the advertisements or do this issues have the advertisements? I downloaded 108 (from 2001 starting with issue 1 to 130 ending 2011) issues from the Internet Archive back in August 2021 without advertisements. Those issues have disappeared because I can no longer find them on the Internet Archive.

[kartracer3]

These do not appear to have the advertisements included. I thought one issue of the magazine itself had the link hidden in the fine print for readers to find the url.

[TheRedEye]

On 7/7/2022 at 5:16 PM, E-Day said:

There are 80 in the batch that The Video Game History Foundation had scanned. They need to be renamed but I can eventually make the PDFs available, though they will eventually show up on Internet Archive from the VGHF. They'll show up here as CBZ files as well at some point.

I just wanted to chime in and say that there's no guarantee these appear on the internet archive, because Future consistently pulls its content down from there.

[E-Day]

5 hours ago, TheRedEye said:

I just wanted to chime in and say that there's no guarantee these appear on the internet archive, because Future consistently pulls its content down from there.

Then the CBZ files will have a home here, and if I get my way so will the searchable PDFs. If the Internet Archive can't be a reliable research resource because they are too high profile, maybe we can be.