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- AMIGA SHOPPER WALKS INTO THE SUNSET
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- Yes it is true. The magazine that originally launched our group
- all those years ago has reached the end of the line. When you
- read this article the last issue will be days away from release.
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- Although we all hoped that the magazine would pull through and
- sales would increase when (if) the Amiga gets back on it's feet.
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- As you can imagine this has annoyed a lot of the remaining readers.
- The magazine has, like all of us seen a lot of changes in the past
- 5 years it has been around. The rise and fall of AS saw the publication
- start out as a 15 page, black and white, coverdisk-less 99P mag, to
- a glossy 50 page £4.50 magazine.
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- After we telephoned Future publishing for some type of explination,
- we asked to be put through to Amiga Shopper, but their phone line
- has been cut off and the office is now getting ready to be used for
- a new magazine. So we were put through to Amiga Format, and Nick
- Veitch tells us that for the last 3 issues Amiga Shopper has been
- produced from the Amiga Format offices, and put together by the AF
- team in their overtime. When asked why, he sums up what we all knew,
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- "it's just not selling enough magazines any more".
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- So Amiga Format is now the one left, with it's two sisters dead,
- it remains to see if the once-mighty Amiga Format with it's muscle
- can survive.
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- This is indeed a sad month in the (remaining) Amiga community.
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- RIP Amiga Shopper 1991-1996
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- Dan Wood
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