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From: schweige@aldebaran.cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Amiga World lied!
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Date: 22 Mar 91 17:36:45 GMT
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Reply-To: schweige@cs.nps.navy.mil (Jeffrey M. Schweiger)
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In article <21980003@hpmwmat.HP.COM> mikep@hpmwtd.HP.COM (Mike Powell) writes:
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>	I didn't even know that the newsstand and subscriber's even had
>	different issues?  Essentially, this means that there are TWO
>	Amiga Worlds.... (more ?)  I thought I was getting a subscription
>	to the magazine I bought on the newsstand...  but apparently,
>	they sold me something else!  This sounds like unethical busines
>	practices to me....  Time to cancel my subscription....


It's my understanding that there is no difference in the editorial content
between the newsstand and subscription versions of AmigaWorld.  The difference
is only in circulation department advertising.  Lou Wallace (senior editor,
technology), indicated on CompuServe, that since this was a circulation
department contest, even he was unaware of it.  I do believe that it is a
common magazine business practice to target advertising to specific markets,
which, in turn, can lead to separate editions of a magazine, all having the
same editorial content.

Jeff Schweiger
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