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There are a lot of people here who react viscerally to any advertising in any form. I'd point that Computer Shopper was a huge magazine with some pro-forma ofte
by ghaff 2y ago
There are a lot of people here who react viscerally to any advertising in any form. I'd point that Computer Shopper was a huge magazine with some pro-forma often low-rent writing that existed as basically a vehicle to deliver ads to people who couldn't really get that information any other way. PC Mag/Byte/etc. was higher quality editorial but still had a lot of advertising.
- jhbadger 2y agoIndeed. As I recall Computer Shopper's articles were the legally minimum percentage of the magazine to make it qualify as a periodical rather than a catalog (US postage rates between the two differed, with periodicals being cheaper). We subscribed for the ads, but some of the articles (like Don Lancaster teaching writing Postscript manually to create figures) were interesting.
- ghaff 2y agoYou take what you can as a freelancer and I'm sure I know a number of folks who wrote for a the magazine at some point or other and did a fine job. But you certainly didn't subscribe or buy issues for the articles.