diff --git a/src/libprs500/__init__.py b/src/libprs500/__init__.py
index 93e9b0a830..cf92756157 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/__init__.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 ##    with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
 ##    51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
 ''' E-book management software'''
-__version__   = "0.3.73"
+__version__   = "0.3.74"
 __docformat__ = "epytext"
 __author__    = "Kovid Goyal <kovid@kovidgoyal.net>"
 __appname__   = 'libprs500'
diff --git a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/newsweek.py b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/newsweek.py
index daf3a9641b..feb30a93cc 100644
--- a/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/newsweek.py
+++ b/src/libprs500/ebooks/lrf/web/newsweek.py
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 
 import sys, urllib2, time, re, tempfile, os, shutil
 
-from libprs500 import __appname__
+from libprs500 import __appname__, iswindows
 from libprs500.ebooks.BeautifulSoup import BeautifulStoneSoup
 from htmlentitydefs import name2codepoint
 
@@ -133,8 +133,9 @@ def initialize(profile):
     sys.stdout.flush()
     contents = get_contents()
     print 'done'
-    index = create_aggregator(contents)    
-    profile['url'] = 'file://'+index
+    index = create_aggregator(contents)
+     
+    profile['url'] = 'file:'+ ('' if iswindows else '//') +index
 
 def finalize(profile):
     global _tdir