Re: SoftdiskGS #82

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

sysop@lost-gonzo.com wrote:

: is there anyway...we can contact some publishers of softdisk,a+ former

Softdisk, I think, will continue to sell back issues, so, until their
profits dwindle to nothing, this probably won't happen for quite a while.

: owners or whatever other defunct apple // mags there are and get
: permission to copy/webpage/or somehow format them for the future on a

The owners of the copyrights to Nibble mag have disappeared... I think
this magazine was the latest in the efforts to turn formerly commercial
now defunct magazines to public domain.  Of course, since we can't find
the publishers, we can't get the mags to PD... which is really a shame.

: web site etc...maybe have a link of appreciation to the current copy
: right holders other mags/software web sites in there also..they get some
: good press out of it and good will out of 'outdated' in their view
: magazine articles/past mags from a decade ago or so...and links to there
: current web sites/projects etc for those users who remember how they
: started etc..

: heck i'd put up with some web ads on a site from old apple //mags
: copyright holders and or /links for that privalage...if nothing else it
: would show a certain we were there first continuity on the part of the
: publishers/copy right holders and put them in a good light...

: just a pipe dream but i thought i'd throw it out for consideration

You might try Steven Disbrow, publisher of GS+, and owner of
EGO Systems.  I'm not sure he'll go for it, though.

Something someone might want to try is to take out a "Where-Are-You-Now"
classified ad in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and half
a dozen other major US newspapers.  That may be the only stab in the
dark that we *haven't* tried in order to find "lost" publishers.

The only problem with this is that it would cost some money... with
no guarantee of success.  Hrm.

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