Re: A Tale of Two Apples (part II)

[bjblackbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major)]

B.J. Major <bjblackbear@ibm.net> wrote:

> <pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> > 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+?
> 
> No, wrong.
> 
> > 
> > Even the Apple II still has three of these.  :)
> > 
> > _Newstand_ magazines reflect the market more.
> 
> MacAddict is available as EITHER subscription or on the newstand.  It's
> not one or the other.  Don't believe me?  It's for sale in Computer City
> and other software outlets that have computer magazines.  I've even seen
> it in Waldenbooks and Crown Bookstores.

And a P.S. to my last paragraph above.  I totally forgot about MacHome
Journal, yet another Mac magazine that's still in print, avail. in
subscription and at the newsstand.  So that makes a total of three Mac
magazines still being published, even with the MacUser/MacWorld merger.


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