That's a shame, sorry to hear that. A nice glossy online mag not an
option?
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From: Creative Digital Publishing Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, July 24, 1999 3:35 AM
Subject: Re: PalmDev Mag / Palm vs. WinCE blasphemy
> >The $13 an issue pricetag is what kept me from buying HSP. I couldn't
> >justify spending that much money on an issue that _maybe_ had one article
on
> >Palm programming. I would have happily bought it if the price was around
$6
> >or $8.
>
> Understandable. The last year and a half or so, we lowered the cover price
> to $9.95. The number of people that bought it or subscribed didn't change
> any significant amount. At those rates, we were losing money. Actually, at
> $12.95 we were losing money too. And, during the last one-two years, we
> always had at least two Palm articles, often three or four.
>
> Sorry if I sound a bit defensive--we thought very long and very hard about
> ways to keep the magazine alive. It just wasn't in the cards, and it was a
> very tough decision to make because it was really a labor of love. We kept
> waiting for the market size to catch up. Unfortunately, we couldn't keep
> losing money waiting for that to happen.
>
> Even now, I'm not convinced there's a market large enough to sustain that
> kind of magazine, Palm-specific or multi-platform. Steve Sabram covered a
> several of the reasons why it's tough in his previous email.
>
> There is a Windows CE-specific magazine. IMHO it's a piece of crap, but
> it's "sponsored" by Microsoft plus several key WinCE OEMs and Systems
> Integrators. That means they are paying the bills, or at least covering
the
> losses.
>
> Regards,
> Steve Mann
>
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