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From: Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Publishers (II)
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Date: 3 Jun 91 23:47:29 GMT
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Spend some time driving around downtown Windsor, Ontario in a van with
Dave Small and other Atari developers... talk a little with Charles F.
Johnson.  Find out how close most developers are to losing everything
they've sweated and bled to build up.  Talk with magazine publishers
and editors who can't pay their contributors because their advertisers
are either out of business or can't afford to pay their advertising
bills.  Talk with dealers who have either gone out of business, losing
most of their investments in the Atari market, or who have been forced
to go on into other markets.  Talk with current Atari dealers who can't
get products to sell, so they can stay in business.
 
Europe may be a different story, but in the U.S.A,   Atari=dead.
 
Hopeful signs 1-5 = too little, too late.
 
I'm sorry, I don't like it either
 
BobR