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Subject: Re: Where is Amazing?
From: mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon)
Date: 26 Jun 1995 05:43:37 GMT
Message-ID: <3slhe9$cgv@natasha.rmii.com>
H.R. Laser (hrlaser@netcom.com) wrote:
: Maxwell Daymon (mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com) wrote:
: : Amazing Computing and here that said they cancelled their subscription
: : because the magazine got smaller. Well, that's the fastest way to make is
: : disappear.
: Actually, the fastest way for a magazine to disappear is for it to
: lose advertising. However, I will grant you that cancelling a sub
: to a magazine that got smaller is a rather short-sighted, and in
Well, the logic here is that advertisers pay based on coverage.
Commericals aired during the Superbowl cost a hell of a lot more than a
commerical on old-B-movie theatre at 3:00am.
If Amazing cannot show a large list of subscribers, advertisers won't pay
as much. This causes a very quick downward spiral because AC must now
charge less and get more ads to cover the basic costs. Then, the magazine
fills with ads (few articles) and more and more people drop their
subscriptions. When that happens, ads become even less valuable and some
companies take it as an early warning sign to leave the Amiga market
entirely.
All this because people can't tolerate a higher than norm
content-to-advertising ratio.
: the case of AC, a dumb thing to do. But paid ad pages are the
: lifeblood of any commercial magazine, not subscriptions or newsstand
: sales.
But without any subscribers and newsstand sales, the ad pages are
worthless because AC can't charge enough for them. The BASIS for the ad
price is in the market it reaches - that's why subs are directly
supporting the ads.
: Cancel a sub because you discover you don't like the content. Or because
: you decide, after a few issues, that it's not for you. But not just
: because the # of pages got smaller.
Yes. Staying with it will show strength and dedication in the market,
another factor that influences the asking price per column-inch.
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+- Maxwell Daymon -+- mdaymon@rmii.com -+