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The entire collection of Omni Magazine is back online

The entire collection of Omni Magazine is back online

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All 200 back issues can now be purchased through Amazon

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Until recently, back issues of Omni Magazine were stored on the Internet Archive, for readers to page through at no cost. The collection of issues was taken down a couple of years ago, but it’s now back online on Amazon.com.

Earlier this week, Jerrick Media, owner of the Omni brand, announced that it was partnering with the Museum of Science Fiction to put the original issues of the magazine back online — this time in high-resolution. Instead of Archive.org, readers can find all 200 issues of the magazine on Amazon.

Each issue will cost $2.99 to buy, but it’s free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers. It’s a bit of a shame that the issues are no longer on the Internet Archive, but it is good to see that they’re back online once again. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the magazine will go to support the museum.

In addition to the magazine’s back issues, the company is also making episodes of a short-lived TV series based on the magazine available on Vimeo On Demand. Omni: The New Frontier originally aired in 1981 and was hosted by filmmaker and writer Peter Ustinov.

Omni Magazine was an enormously influential publication that ran from 1978 to 1995. Created by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione and wife Kathy Keeton, it featured interviews with scientists such as Freeman Dyson, art from the likes of H.R. Giger and Chris Foss, and original fiction from established science fiction authors such as Isaac Asimov and newcomers like William Gibson. The original magazine went digital in 1995, but shuttered in 1998. In 2013, Jerrick Media resurrected the magazine in an online format called Omni Reboot.