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From: dlm@druwy.ATT.COM (Dan Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Antic's New Magazine(?)
Message-ID: <3994@druwy.ATT.COM>
Date: 25 Apr 89 15:01:50 GMT
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in article <1535@fredonia.UUCP>, sale5312@fredonia.UUCP (Marty Saletta) says:
>    I haven't purchased STart in over a year, so I was suprised to
> see a new Amiga magazine in my local bookstore's shelf,with "Antic"
> on the cover.
> 
>    I'm not mad (*please,PLEASE* don't start that stupid "war" again...)
> but I am puzzled.  Why would they do something like that?  If that brings
> in more revenue, then great.  But since reading Antic from their first year,
> I can't imagine them publishing anything but an Atari magazine (at least
> with "Antic" on the cover.)

	There hasn't been a change of ownership at Antic.  They haven't
been an Atari only company for several years.  They used to have an Apple
mag and a R/C Model mag, I know the Apple mag is gone and think the R/C
one is also.

	They (actually Jim Capparell(sp)) started an Amiga mag because
the Amiga is a rapidly growing market.  That means they should have a
lot of growth and profits for their Amiga mag.  I know the 8 bit mag is
selling into a shrinking market, I'm not sure about "STart" since I
haven't been tracking the circulation numbers recently.  (All I ever
look at is Dave and my column, so I know which was was published this
month.)

	Actually you could make a reasonable case that Antic should only
publish mags about the 8 bit Atari's and the Amiga since both were
designed by the same person. 



				Dan Moore
				AT&T Bell Labs
				Denver
				dlm@druwy.ATT.COM