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From: Martin I Veiner (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 09:51:23 EDT
I've never heard anyone complain about spam in a bad magazine!!! Can you
make that claim about your high tech, super futuristic Internet
connections?
While I was not going to comment about spam that appeared last week on
TWL, there is no doubt in my mind that some of the spam I get with my
e-mail, for the same e-mail address/service I use for TWL, has come as a
result of my being a recipient of TWL. That's alright though, because the
advantages of this forum are over abundantly in favor of the practical
advice I have received.
Like most people, I enjoy the feel and look of hard copy, and I still
receive at least two boating publications. Remember, however, that there
is nothing quite so perishable as news. Meaning, I have usually read
something about the same topic or subject of their "feature articles"
much earlier on TWL or the net. Case in point was the recent story on the
300 percent increase in Bahamas entry fees. That story broke on 1 July
03, and within a week we were discussing it on TWL. A monthly magazine
needs at least two to three week lead time before publication, so you can
expect to see more on this topic in September (monthly magazine) boating
issues.
In my case, there are further issues with space. When we used to have a
large house, I had room to keep every back issue of Sailing, Cruising
World, Down East, Yachting, etc.We down-sized 3 years ago in the process
of preparing to spend a great deal of time aboard a trawler. Life aboard
does not lend itself to receiving or saving magazines. Besides, if I want
to find out the latest info on a subject, I can just tap into the
archives and get it off the net.
Magazine publishers are faced with enormous obstacles for survival, and
the advent of the net has made it more difficult to break even or
survive. Offers for boating magazines keep arriving and it seems that
subscription prices are much lower than they were a few years ago, in
spite of increased mail costs and inflation. That is due to the desperate
need to maintain circulation, so that they can get advertisers to pay for
the magazine, so that we can complain about the advertising, and so on.
Newspaper and newsletter publishers have the same dilemma.
Give the forests and trees a break. Use the library for those infrequent
times you have an insatiable need to touch and feel print, Use the net
for the latest and best information if you want to do real research. The
net replaced the importance of the periodicals library several years ago.
Damn, and I wasted all those years in the library. Well, not exactly,
because we did get some pleasure and social perks from encounters at the
library with the opposite sex.
Martin I. Veiner
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