Re: Why Don't You Subscribe to GS+ Magazine

[philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)]

In article <3o6c8i$2hk@iii1.iii.net> kgagne@iii1.iii.net (Ken Gagne) writes:
> > Why Don't You Subscribe to GS+ Magazine
> 
> Limited budget, and already on a different "Disk of the Month"...
> What can GS+ do for me that Softdisk can't/doesn't? I see that you have
> a print magazine, so I assume such items can't be found on disk and so
> more of it is used for real programs, prolly unlike Softdisk... but the
> latter is monthly. One can't go monthly until one has more subscribers, 
> and going monthly certainly reels them in. <eg>

As a (former) GS+ subscriber, as well as a (former) Softdisk GS one, I must say  
that GS+ produced far more useful software than Softdisk ever did. EgoEd is a  
livesaver, and its support for rtf files is great. No small task actually and I  
still have occasion to use it when other approaches fail. Softdisk GS was quite  
nice but far too expensive and really contained information that was aimed at  
beginners, and there are fewer and fewer of them. 
 
GS+ hits a nice compromise between articles with something to say and pure  
fluff. It's really an excellent magazine. I happen to like the layout. It's a  
refreshing change from the hyped glossies put out by the hundreds in the PC  
world.  There is one thing which I suspect will affect more and more magazines,  
including GS+. This is the competition that comes from the electronic  
information providers. Hard to beat actually, and one would imagine that a WWW  
Browser should be at the top of the list for any new GS software. 

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Philip McDunnough
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philip@utstat.toronto.edu