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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: MacWeek
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-250193115204@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:54:58 GMT
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- In article <1057310.2B5C1312@cmhgate.fidonet.org>,
- Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) wrote:
- >
- > mwojcik@mail.sas.upenn.edu (Michael Wojcik) writes:
- >
- > MW> I wouldn't shell out the $99.00/year. It's just not worth
- > MW> it.
- >
- > well, look at your alternatives: Macworld and MacUser magazines.
- >
- > Those rags have gotten so bad with advertising that I've let my subscriptions
- > lapse. I'll try to pick them up in the library to read Steven Levy and Andy
- > Ihnatko, but otherwise I'll let them go.
- >
- > Last week I picked up my car magazines. Car and Driver doesn't see the
- > absolute need to stuff 5 catalogs full of ads into every issue, and neither
- > does Road & Track. And yet, the car is every bit as entrenched into our
- > society--nay, more so--than the computer.
-
- It's not a matter of the publisher needing to stuff them in; it is a matter
- of the advertisers paying to have it stuffed in. If JC Whitney wanted to
- pay to have a portion of its catalog included as an ad in an auto magazine,
- you'd find it in the magazine. Also, how much stuff does the average car
- owner who reads auto magazines buy for the car after buying the car? How
- much stuff does the average computer owner who reads computer magazines buy
- for the computer after buying the computer? They are different kinds of
- industries.
-
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