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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Has AmigoTimes gone under?
Message-ID: <1850@crash.cts.com>
Date: 16 Mar 90 19:34:03 GMT
References: <13155@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> <1841@crash.cts.com> <941@cs.nps.navy.mil>
Reply-To: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <941@cs.nps.navy.mil> schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger) writes:
>In article <1841@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>
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>|This is a real sad situation, not only for the staff and authors of
>|AmigoTimes who have been shafted, but for the Amiga community as well.
>|During the course of the last few months, AmigoTimes, Amiga Transactor,
>|Amiga Sentry, Ahoy's AmigaUser, and AMnews have all bitten the dust.
>|(The Amigan, too, but that one due to the publisher's poor health, not
>|due to financial ineptitude).  Talk about a publishing shakeout! In
>|about six months we lost HALF of our dedicated-magazine base!
>|
>|As for who's left... I see Amiga World, Compute's Amiga Resource, 
>|Antic's AmigaPlus, Amazing Computing and JumpDisk as the survivors.
>|(I'm counting Amiga-specific magazines here, not general interest
>|computer mags which happen to also have an Amiga columnist, such as
>|Computer Shopper and Compute). Oh, and INFO, which hopefully is still
>|going monthly in a few months.  What's happening with INFO's planned
>|merger with AmigoTimes at this point, I don't know.  I'd sure like
>|to find out, though.  
>
>There seems to be a new player in the Amiga magazine arena.  I recently picked
>up a copy of the premier issue of Amiga GRAF/x, published by Hahn-Wallace 
>Publishing Group (listed as a bimonthly publication.  I see that Harv Laser is
>one of the authors for this premier issue with a discussion of a Canon Xap Shot/
>Progressive Peripherals FrameGrabber combination.  IMHO, it's a pretty slick,
>professional looking publication.  Has anyone else looked at it ? (BTW, I
>picked it up at a Software, Etc. outlet).
>
>Jeff Schweiger
>
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Boy, is my face ever red! {blush blush}. Well when I was composing my
little tale of woe yesterday (partially quoted above) I completely forgot
about Hahn-Wallace Publishing and their AX, Graf/X, etc. etc. magazines.
Yes, my Xapshot/Framegrabber articles is in Graf/X. Interestingly enough
this relates back to my "magazine shakeout" story since that article was
originally written last summer to appear in AMnews but that magazine
went down the toilet before the issue with the article came out! :-/
so it became another mad rush to resell it to someone else for publication
and some $$$. 

I've done some additional work for H-W Pub. which will appear in future
issues of AX but the previous poster who mentioned AX's rather 
unconventional page layout scheme (such as an article being continued
on pages EARLIER in the magazine when they have to break it up) is
strange.. they don't have very much advertising either, and that's
reflected in the lower-than-average compensation for freelance authors
like me.