A2 Electronic Magazine?

[avsystem@rain.org (Adrian Vance)]

   As on who has been in the magazine business for 20 years, writing and 
phototgraphing for everything from SEVENTEEN to THE SMITHSONIAN, with 
most of my work in photography where I was West Coast Editor of POPULAR 
PHOTOGRAPHY for four years, and I did do one piece for Nibble, let me say 
that the basic economic for such a magazine is not to be found here, nor 
is there an atitude that will attract magazine type writers, who are 
essentially commercial animals.  Witness the flack I have gotten, and 
still get, when I post a "free catalog" notice.

  Most hobby magazine articles have the purpose of popularizing some new 
product or expanding the entire enterprise in some way.  Like the travel 
pieces we would do for photo magazines getting the readers properly 
outfitted for their trips, hopefully buying a lot of film, etc.  In this 
shrinking market there is little impetus for that kind of thing, but 
there are some possibilities.

  Magazine style articles, which could be reposted periodically, on how 
to keep your Apple IIs running, sources of replacement software, services 
and the like should be welcome here.  This board, or whatever it is 
called, could be converted into that kind of "magazine" with the proper 
postings.  If you wish I will put up a few such pieces, but I want no 
flack, accusations of "commercializing the net" and so on.

  Please pile on with your ideas and comments.  Adrian Vance