Re: A Tale of Two Apples (part II)

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B.J. Major wrote:
> 
> Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:
> 
> Re:  the merger of MacWorld & MacUser magazines
> 
> >     I hadn't heard about this until now, but I have watched both Mac
> > publications downside from something that looked and felt like a phone
> > book, to something very similiar in page quantity to inCider in 1991.
> > From what I saw happen to inCider and A+ (as well as other magazines)
> > the future for the publication doesn't look too bright. The Mac market
> > is vastly smaller than the PC market, and magazines available and their
> > sizes will reflect it (notice as the Amiga market started to fall, so
> > did its newsstand publications. The same is true with the Apple II).
> 
> This may be so.  But, even though both magazines had different features
> and a totally different writing style, they more times than not had
> identical cover stories.  And everyone is forgetting that over a year
> ago a brand new Mac magazine by the name of MacAddict debuted that has a
> very strong subscription base.  So there is still more than one Mac
> magazine on the market.

MacAddict is a subscription only magazine, like GS+?

Even the Apple II still has three of these.  :)

_Newstand_ magazines reflect the market more.

-Scott G.