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From: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BYTE
Message-ID: <1508@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 16:22:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.1508
Posted: Fri Sep 11 16:22:15 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 02:34:23 EDT
References: <8709090658.AA09801@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jdow@gryphon.CTS.COM (Joanne Dow)
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In article <8709090658.AA09801@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
>
>	Yah, I've stopped reading it also.  Not because they've dropped
>68000 stuff (I've was reading byte years before the Amiga came out), but
>because there are so many !@#$@#%*($)% advertisements!  Worse, it is
>impossible to page through the magazine any more due to thousands of
>those little post-card thingy's they are putting in.
>
>
>				-Matt
Well, one advantage to being closer than average to the BYTE publishers is
the inside poop I learn. (For example Best of BIX is dying as a part of BYTE.
It will become a quarterly(?) publication distributed with BYTE.) Anyway, 
this advertisement issue keeps coming up. It seems Phil is constrained very
heavily by MGH upper management types to have a fixed ration of advertising to
editorial material. The declining advertising is costing editorial pages.

It is sad to watch the apparent degradation of a marvelous techweenie magazine
into another PC Magazine clone. As soon as the heavy technical articles with
algorithms and really new microcomputer goodies disappear from the rag and it
becomes another advertisement for PCs I think I'll let my "since issue 1"
subscription lapse. (Unless Phil wants to make a subscription a perk of
moderating on bix. Even then I can't guarantee I'll read the thing.) The
prospect makes me (and very many of the other BIX moderators) sick to
contemplate.


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