<p>I found that magazines like The Economist and New Yorker have both online version and paper version.
But some sections cannot be read free of charge online.
What’s the difference between those that can be read free online and those that can only be accessed through purchase of the magazine?</p>
<p>I can’t answer your question, wanted to say though that I love to have a paper in my hand, love the smell of it…
Something about a written word, I do not know what it is, but when my kids ask me to have a look at their written work, I politely ask them to please print it out for me. Call me old fashioned 
I live in such a remote area that they won’t deliver Washington Post here, but I still refuse to subscribe to the electronic version.</p>
<p>Get a subscription to The New Yorker and find out. You won’t be sorry.</p>
<p>You can’t leave an electronic subscription lying around the kitchen table to catch kids’ eyes during snack time. We leave New Yorker and NY Review of Books (along w/ Time and National Geographic & political newsletters) on the table for literary grazing to accompany the other kind. ;)</p>