Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!ucsd!ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!kerchen From: kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu (Paul Kerchen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Compute's ST (& magazines in general) Message-ID: <2438@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> Date: 14 Jul 88 17:24:41 GMT References: <880714031857.936112@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA> Sender: uucp@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu Reply-To: kerchen@iris.UUCP (Paul Kerchen) Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Lines: 15 I recently found out that the reason why diskette magazines, like Compute's ST & ST X-Press, are sealed is because *the bookstores want them to do it*. This information comes directly from a reply to a letter which I sent to Rich Decowski, editor of ST X-Press: "And it [the magazine] isn't sealed to try to hide it! It is done so because the book chains WANT it that way. I would rather have it unsealed so that people can see how much information is in each issue." By having the magazine sealed, book stores cut their losses from people stealing the diskette inside the magazine. Paul Kerchen | kerchen@iris.ucdavis.edu Disclaimer: I am unemployed, but if I weren't I'm sure my boss would disagree with whatever I said.