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From: daves@hpcilzb.HP.COM (Dave Scroggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Why the Amiga is hard to sell
Message-ID: <9650002@hpcilzb.HP.COM>
Date: 15 Dec 89 21:51:29 GMT
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Johathan, 


>You wanna know what holds back the sales of Amigas?  Consider this:  The first
>question someone interested in the Amiga asks you is "Where is the
>nearest Amiga dealer?"  Out here the local Amiga dealer, HT Electronics is
>pretty good.  Okay, what's the second question?  The second question is
>usually, "What's a good Amiga magazine?"

>The answer, as you all probably know, there isn't one.  Let's see what we've
>got.  Amiga World.  Yes, it looks slick from the outside, and there are a lot


You didn't mention the "Amiga+" magazine. It's fairly new ('bout 6 months old).
It has the polish of Amiga World but  has real content like Amazing Computing.
It does NOT have the ponification of Amazing Computing. They even have an
article about the Amiga losing ground to competition. They have a disk 
included with the mag, but if you don't want it you can also buy it without
the disk.

Some of the mags which state they are published with the Amiga LOOK
amaturish at best!!

However the Amiga plus has, "virtually 100% pre-press production" done on 
on an Amiga, and are supposedly working toward, "absolute 100% Amiga
desktop publishing."

(It appears that believe in the Amiga eh?)

Dave S.