Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: APDA pricing Message-ID: <1019@esquire.UUCP> Date: 9 Feb 89 14:30:28 GMT References: <25268@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 29 In article <25268@apple.Apple.COM> mjohnson@Apple.COM (Mark Johnson) writes: >I am posting the following note for William Kiss > > 2. The content of the first issue of the APDAlog has also been under > attack. I found that issue superior in both content and style to > any of the issues which had previously been published by A.P.P.L.E. > Co-Op. Just having read the first issue of MacTech Quarterly, I > wonder why similar effort was not put into the APDAlog by them. I agree. I think that while some might complain about lack of content in some of the articles, the APDAlog is now *much* better layed out, it's much easier to find what you're looking for, and in general seems very clear and accessible. None of this can be said about the old APDAlog, which developed from a few pages of catalog listings into something that showed signs of the fatal Pagemaker-itis disease, but which at no point was ever very well done. Now if they would just throw out their ridiculous billing procedures (each item having an associated shipping cost, sending you twelve invoices, each with pro-rated shipping and tax charges, etc.), and if they could manage to keep more than 50% of their items in stock (a curious term for the tech notes, which seem to go out of stock whenever they run out of toner for their copy machine), we'd really be set. -- Steve Baumgarten | "New York... when civilization falls apart, Davis Polk & Wardwell | remember, we were way ahead of you." cmcl2!esquire!sbb | esquire!sbb@cmcl2.nyu.edu | - David Letterman