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- From: larry@em.powernet.co.uk (Larry Hickmott)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: JAM Merges with EM
- Date: Thu, 29 Feb 1996 23:27:32 GMT
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- PRESS RELEASE: 29/2/1996
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- JUST AMIGA MONTHLY MERGES WITH EM MAGAZINE
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- To All:
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- Just Amiga Monthly, known as JAM, has been taken over by LH
- Publishing, publishers of the Amiga DTP magazine Em. The details of
- this takeover are as follows:
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- Approx 3 to 4 weeks ago, Jeff Walker, founder publisher of the
- subscription magazine Just Amiga Monthly, (JAM), asked LH Publishing
- (publishers of Em magazine and run by Larry Hickmott) to take over
- ownership of the magazine JAM. LH Publishing have agreed.
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- The deal made was simple. The ownership of JAM, formerly with Bookmark
- Publishing was to be transfered to LH Publishing in return for LH
- Publishing agreeing to honour the current outstanding subscriptions.
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- It is LH Publishing`s view that the Amiga needs a subscription based
- magazine to publish the type of information currently ignored by the
- glossy magazines. Since November of 1994, LH Publishing has already
- been successful in building up a large customer base for its own
- magazine Em. By taking on Jam, that user base has doubled.
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- The cost of the deal is simply the amount of money it will cost LH
- Publishing to continue honouring the outstanding subscriptions from
- JAM subscribers. This is expected to to fall over the long term,
- providing support for the magazine continues. NO money has been
- exchanged between Bookmark publishing and LH Publishing.
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- The format of both the magazines Em and JAM will therefore change to
- cut costs while still providing a worthwhile service to the Amiga
- community. The magazine Em will now carry the JAM logo on the cover in
- respect for the subscribers of JAM. The content of the magazine will,
- it is expected, evolve over the next few months to reflect a balance
- between desktop publishing (from Em) to other more wide ranging Amiga
- subjects that are normally covered by JAM.
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- The next issue of Em (number 9) (carrying the JAM logo), is due out in
- the next week or so and is going to press on Monday. With the taking
- on of JAM, LH Publishing is hoping that it can now concentrate on
- publishing the magazine and therefore produce the magazine on a
- monthly basis.
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- All the JAM subscribers on the database given to LH Publishing (as
- well as Em subscribers), will be sent a copy of the next issue of EM,
- and in which the situation will be explained more fully.
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- LH Publishing can only provide answers to questions about the future
- of JAM and Em together. It cannot answer questions about JAM previous
- to February of this year. The last issue of JAM was 58.
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- Head publisher at LH Publishing, Larry Hickmott, is a former editor of
- JAM, prior to issue 41, and is open to suggestions and contributions
- from current subscribers as well as interested parties.
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- Anyone wanting further information on JAM or Em, can email LH
- Publishing at: larry@em.powernet.co.uk
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- END
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- LH PUBLISHING
- AMIGA PUBLISHERS OF EM MAGAZINE AND PROFESSIONAL PAGE 4.1
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