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From: nazgul@obsolete.UUCP (Kee Hinckley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: A+ demise
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Date: 28 May 89 14:29:29 GMT
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    On another subject.  I was surprised to see no comments at all about the
    recent publishing change and demise of A+.  A+, IMHO, was the only magazine
    worth reading (It was definitely not the best, but it was the best of the
    worst).  Recently Incider announced the 'merger' of A+ and Incider, with the
    resulting magazine a combination of A+/Incider.  

I forget which magazine editor said it (I think it was Don Lancaster in Computer
Shopper), but it went something like:
    "They merged the third and fourth best Apple magazines and ended up with
     the seventh best."
Frankly I was appalled.  I have yet to decide whether the content will
suffer (conceivably in the long run it will get better, once they start
using the new resources), but INcider's layout looks like something
done by a novice who just discovered desktop publishing.  Every column
is in a different face and font, placed in a different location on the
page.  Irrespective of the content I find the format completely unreadable.
They desperately need to get serious about publishing.  I don't suppose
anyone can forward this message to them (Are they on AppleLink or anything?
Then I could just cc this to <whatever>@applelink.apple.com.)
    
    What say the rest of the community to this?

What I want back is SoftTalk, but in the meantime I'll keep subscribing
to A2-Central (formerly Open-Apple) and Computer Shopper.

							-kee

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