Re: A Tale of Two Apples (part II)

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

<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.

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