Official Xbox Magazine Gets Digital on Xbox Live

Official Xbox Magazine deftly dodges the "do people still care about print" quandary by bringing OXM Digital to the Xbox Live Marketplace. For 200 Microsoft Points (about $2.50), you get, as editor Francesca Reyes puts it, a "digital digest of our mag, but with lots of exclusive interactive content, including gamer pics, themes, videos, galleries... stuff we can't do in print."

Don't freak out if you still have a subscription to ye olde paper version, because you'll be getting all the same demos that appear in Digital. Says senior editor Dan Amrich in this thread on Xbox.com:

If you're a disc person, you get your disc as you always have, and the demo in question will be on there. If you are a Marketplace person, you get your download. It's whichever version works better for you, but you don't have to miss out when we get exclusive demos like Katamari Damacy or Eternal Sonata or whatever.

That's what's the same, but what will be different? From that same thread:

OXMD is not the "Disc -> save as DLC." They are different products. But...some content may be shared between the two products, particularly demos, of which there are a finite amount. Some of the videos, for instance, may only appear in one or the other product, or they might be edited differently (say, an interview about a game's single-player campaign on the disc and an interview with the same person about the game's multiplayer aspects on the other).

There was also some "we can't talk about it yet" covering of butts, but it should be interesting to see how the digital and the print versions complement each other.

OXM Digital to Vault Onto Xbox Live [GameSetWatch]