Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Bob_BobR_Retelle From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: What's wrong with the AMY? Message-ID: <23991@cup.portal.com> Date: 13 Nov 89 06:22:54 GMT References: <5440077@hplsla.HP.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 30 Andy Cassino mentions: >ST magazines? Well, maybe Wall Street is the center of the financial world, >but I can walk into any B. Dalton in a suburban shopping mall and buy >more ST mags than I want or need. Maybe you're easily satisfied with the three or four Atari magazines that are left in the market... unfortunately, you've got to cross ANALOG and ST-LOG off your list, since Atari Corp's capricious treatment of the US marketplace has forced ANALOG out of business after many years of trying to support Atari. This leaves...? STart (disk? nondisk? potluck, depending on the B.Dalton) ST Informer (not bad, but never seen one in B.Dalton) ST World (Bleeech.. besides, no B.Dalton would carry it) Atari Interface Magazine (virtually unknown outside of Atari user groups) Umm... I'm running out of options here... can you help me with some more of all those ST mags you want or need..? The point is, magazine publishing is NOT an altruistic profession.. Atari Corp is playing with people's lives and livelihoods with their game playing. Who can afford to support a company like Atari when it becomes a decision between blindly supporting Atari, or eating..? Like it or not, that's what it's finally come down to in the Atari world. BobR