MacHome Magazine Dies?

bentonbenton
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
When July copy did not arrive I called customer 800# with no answer. Publisher has not replied to email. Following links are not promising.

http://baconsblog.typepad.com/media_...e_closes_.html

http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/corpdata/Sho...umber=C2276591

I am disappointed. Mac publishing pages are shrinking all over.

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  • Reply 1 of 6
    guybrush threepwoodguybrush threepwood Posts: 1,109member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Benton

    When July copy did not arrive I called customer 800# with no answer. Publisher has not replied to email. Following links are not promising.

    http://baconsblog.typepad.com/media_...e_closes_.html

    http://kepler.ss.ca.gov/corpdata/Sho...umber=C2276591

    I am disappointed. Mac publishing pages are shrinking all over.



    Aren't computer publishing pages in general shrinking all over?



    Internet's taking over. The Buggles should write a new song...
  • Reply 2 of 6
    blue2kdaveblue2kdave Posts: 652member
    Sorry, I used to subscribe to every Mac magazine but ditched everything but this British mag, MacFormat. Basically other than reviews, there is very little content that's useful anymore. And you can get reviews online. Wow, a cover story on the new Intel Mac Mini! Which happened two months ago. Wow, another incredibly basic overview of iLife. Or the worst, Mac writers trying to be funny.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    bentonbenton Posts: 161member
    For those MacHome magazine subscribers who are disenchanted and would like to file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau, as I did, here is a very convenient link to follow. Scroll down the page and look at Benton's second comment.



    http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.ph...s_publication/
  • Reply 4 of 6
    mac on a macmac on a mac Posts: 441member
    The internet has made most of these publications obsolete. I used to wait anxiously for my Mac Week and savor every word. That?s all in the past though....
  • Reply 5 of 6
    majormattmajormatt Posts: 1,077member
    This explains why my request for a software review was undeliverable.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    rokrok Posts: 3,519member
    welcome to the Short Attention Span Era. thankfully, i am on the cusp of such an era, and therefore can (with effort) actually break down and read for longer than a few minutes at a time, as long as it's in the correct format. seriously, today's blogs and online newspaper articles just do NOT lend themselves to reading lengthy (like over 5 screens worth) of text.



    recently, i've found myself buying more magazines and trying to sit down and actually READ them through, and, given the time, it's very nice. large high-res pictures and text, can read it anywhere (a magazine is still lighter than any laptop i can bring into the living room), and if i spill coffee on it, it's only a few bucks to replace.



    the key is that the mag has to offer something more than just sound bites. the web is the realm of sound bites, and a two paragraph snippet about a product is wasted on printed media. one mag i enjoy thoroughly is layers magazine. yes, it has its snippets, but the production quality is top notch (it's the napp/photoshop guys, so you expect pretty high standards), and they offer a whackload of across-the-board tutorials which, let's be honest, are not easy to follow on a computer screen. their interviews are keenly written, and many of their writers are experts in the field. you've just got to be more than a news-snippet-and-review mag if you are going to make it these days. macworld has inertia on its side, and yes, they actually do have some good articles as well. (we'll ignore the horrible, HORRIBLE redesign they did several years back. did that even last a year?)
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