4 Jun
2010
4 Jun
'10
3:12 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, Liam Proven wrote:
I don't doubt this, a lot of US photography magazines read more like
advertisements than magazines.
Of course then there is "White Dwarf", which if the UK version is anything
like the US version is nothing more than an advertisement (actually more of
a catalog supplement). It used to be a good generic RPG magazine, then a
good "House Games" magazine, now it's just junk with the occasional
interesting bit. Now there is a hobby where the magazine selection has
really gone down hill, but then that happened 10-20 years ago. 10 years ago
it was hard to find a decent tabletop gaming magazine that wasn't a "House
games rag", now it's impossible. 20 years ago there were all sorts of
magazine that covered not only that publishers games, but also everyone
elses.
Zane
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Zane H. Healy
<healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
In the 90's I bought a lot of Mac and Amiga magazines for the floppies and
CD's that were included.
Actually this brings up an interesting point. ?At
bookstores around here you
used to be able to buy Linux distro's even though they wouldn't sell any
other software.
I've noticed that pretty much every British Linux magazine I've seen seems
to include at least one Linux distribution on CD/DVD.
It's cheap and cover mounts /significantly/ increase newsstand sales,
even when they also increase the cover price. It's a rare mag that
doesn't sell more with a "free" cover CD even if it cost a few pounds
more.
Sad but true. BTW, is the UK's chief export periodicals?
?Also why are they so much more
interesting than ones published in the US?
Slightly freer editorial teams? I used to write for some American
mags, and one had to check with the manufacturers of kit before
running a review to give them chance to explain/excuse away the
defects in the product and so on. Utter madness; totally
counter-productive.