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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: BYTE still toothless
Keywords: BYTE ~= magazines(amiga)
Message-ID: <1990Sep27.152440.26687@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 27 Sep 90 15:24:40 GMT
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH
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	We got our October BYTE the other day, and it had even less Amiga
oriented articles than the previous issue. If there is a change coming, I
haven't seen it yet.

	Can't these magazines understand that x*(computer_type) where
x>amigas_sold does NOT mean that more of that readers will read the magazine
than Amiga owners? Many Macs are owned by schools and corporations, and this
is even more true for IBM machines, where I would be willing to believe over
HALF of the PC's out there are used for business rather than a personal
computer.
	In my experience corporations do not usually purchase magazines,
other than maybe a single subscription per building. For PC clones, there are
MUCH better magazines that deal specifically with PC's, and all the
companies I visited as a consultant ALL had subscriptions to PC Week and
PC magazine, while only ONE had a subscription to BYTE. I have a hard time
beleiving that people who use a computer at work, and do not own one at
home would subscribe to ANY computer magazine out of their own pocket, and
I doubt very much whether any DP department gives subscriptions to the
secretarial pool.
	In short, I would be willing to bet that people who own Amiga's
are more likely to buy a general computer magazine such as BYTE than the
average PC or Mac user, since almost all people who use Amiga's must
have at least SOME interest in computing itself, or they would have stuck
with an annonymous PC or a brainless Mac.