On Sun, 19 Sep 2004 15:23:41 GMT, "Marvin Moss"
wrote:

What is going on in the publishing world?

The web has superseded much of it.

People expect content for free.

Why pay for expensive paper which may be outdated by the time it gets
to you, when you can read a nearly infinite amount of info which can
be updated daily, on the web for a small cost?

People are playing with the web. Don't have time to write.

Don't know how to write.

Don't have anything to say.

Mags need editorial.

Mags need advertisers. Money is tight. People are cutting down on toys
to a large extent. Advertisers aren't cutting loose much advertising
money, which results in a smaller magazine, which results in less
readers to advertise to, and the vicious cycle spirals downhill.

I renewed for three years to some of my favorite
magazines like 73 Mag, Poptronics, and
Electronic Servicing & Technology and they appear to
have gone under leaving me with no subscriptions
and not even a transfer of my subscription to
another magazine as a substitute.

Poptronics transferred subs to Nuts & Volts. I already was a N&V
subscriber but will not renew.

73 folded due to significant advertiser money being owed to 73 and not
paid. Nothing left, but Wayne still speaks his mind at:

www.waynegreen.com

I miss 73. I remember 300 page issues of that mag in the late 1970s
and early 1980s.

I've never heard of Electronic Servicing.

This makes me an unhappy camper not only because
of the loss of money but because I loved getting
these magazines every month.

You're not alone.

Mags can't exist without editorial (articles written and submitted for
publication). It starts with editorial.

Write something, anything, for your favorite remaining mags. You'll
earn some money, build a reputation, and help them survive. Mags are
desperate for editorial. They need a constant flow of it, each month.

A few of my 337 published articles on communications, surveillance and
countersurveillance are on the White Papers section of my website. All
were published in technical trade magazines which are thriving because
of decent editorial from a number of hard core writers who are willing
to trade an evening or two's worth of writing a month for a few
hundred dollars each month.

Steve WA3SWS


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