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Subject: Re: Turbo Technix, a review (long)
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Date: Mon, 16-Nov-87 12:02:22 EST
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In article <3876@eecae.UUCP> lawitzke@eecae.ee.msu.edu (John Lawitzke) writes:
>A solid magazine with a bright future. HOWEVER, it is grossly
>overpriced. I believe Borland was marketing this as a Borland
>Language Technical Journal. This is far from being a Technical 
>Journal. My advice don't waste $50/year on it. Perhaps if everyone
>wrote a letter to to Borland and pointed out the overpricing and the
>fact that Borland prides itself on offering quality prices at a Borland
>price. Well, they now have a Borland product at an IBM/Microsoft price.
>
I think they charge this price because they really do not want to be
bothered to actually sell any suscriptions at all, just give it away.
However, to qualify for the cheap (2nd class?) newspaper/magazine
postage rate, I think they must offer a public suscription.
(They probably also do it to impress Borland product purchasers
with the value of the freebie).

I have seen other technical magazines that were free to "qualified suscribers"
and also had an artifically high cover price or public subscription price.

Doug Braun   				Somewhere