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We print six issues per year in January, March, May, July, September, and November. All of them are chock-full of content covering everything from technical articles to how-to’s and thought-provoking features.

In addition to six issues per year of the magazine, subscribers receive unlimited access to SAM’s digital archives dating back to 1962. You can also listen to articles, save your favorite reads to a personal library, and connect with fellow operators on the subscriber-exclusive Parts & Resources board.

Subscribers receive discounts on Summer Ops Camp, Ski Resort AI Bootcamp, the Summit Series, and other SAM programs and events. SAM also works with partners to offer special promotions and discounts throughout the year.

You are right, the digital archives pre-2005 are brand-new and we’re working to get all of our content online. In the meantime, if you are a subscriber and there is an article you are looking for just email [email protected] to get a PDF version.

We release the current issue online over a period of about 5 weeks from the first of the month it was published in. You’ll get an email as soon as new articles hit the website! Subscribers get access to the full issue first when it lands in your mailbox though, so it pays to subscribe.

To a small extent, yes. We’ve tried to set it up so that it’s similar to sharing a print magazine. Print subscribers receive complimentary access to the digital archives through their own personal login. We use cookies, so that once you login to view one article, you are logged in for that session. However, if the cookie is placed on too many devices or is used on multiple devices at the same time, your account can get locked out. We limit sharing in this way because we can’t afford to give away our work—we depend on subscriber support to produce quality content. If you find the content valuable enough to share with others, perhaps they should have their own subscription. It’s pretty inexpensive, after all, and we’re always offering new subscriber deals to make the decision an easy one.

With our new website, you can save articles to read or listen to later in your personal library, listen to audio articles, and access the Parts & Resources board. You can also visit My Account to renew your subscription, update your address, and manage your subscription details.

Sign in and open the article you’d like to hear, then tap “Listen” on the audio player below the introduction. Audio is included with your subscription at no additional cost.

Use “1x” to increase the playback speed, skip backward or forward in 15-second increments, or click “Transcript” and select a passage to jump to that part of the story.

Learn more about audio stories.

Click “Sign In” at saminfo.com and enter the email associated with your subscription. We’ll email you a secure sign-in link, so there’s no password to remember.

If you’re still having trouble, email [email protected] for assistance.

Every SAM subscription includes both print and digital access.

Print remains at the heart of SAM. Six times a year, our magazine brings together the stories, ideas, photography, voices and industry perspective that matter most in a thoughtfully edited issue designed to be read, shared and kept for reference.

That journalism continues well beyond the magazine. Online, you can dig deeper into a topic, find something you missed, search decades of SAM coverage, save an article for later or listen on the road.

Your subscription gives you access to both, so you can enjoy SAM however the moment calls for it.