RE: Midrange Computing is liquidating.

["ron hawkins" <hwarangron@xxxxxxxx>]

Part of the resaon the magazines page count has been coming down is that
they have been offloading content to their internet web sites. At MC,
articles were limited to 300 lines of code. This included DDS, Command
specifications as well as RPG. Anything over that had to have some of it put
out on the web. They also put a limit on the number of figures they would
print per article (I think 3 or 4).

I believe this decision led to a couple of negative results.

1. People concluded that they weren't getting their money's worth based on
the page count of the magazine.

2. More "fluff", less technical pieces were being presented, ie. "How to
Save Energy in your Office".

Ron Hawkins



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-midrange-l@midrange.com
[mailto:owner-midrange-l@midrange.com]On Behalf Of MacWheel99@aol.com
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 10:26 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: Midrange Computing is liquidating.


Perhaps News/400 will raise subscription pricing, promising in return to
hold
the page count to 100 per issue for at least a year.  Perhaps the Justice
Department will let News/400 buy out MC assets.

MacWheel99@aol.com (Alister Wm Macintyre) (Al Mac)


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