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From: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Magazine Distribution (was Re: Allen Holub on DDJ & C-Chest)
Keywords: DDJ, C-Chest, magazines
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Date: 19 Sep 88 20:34:59 GMT
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Reply-To: keithe@tekgvs.GVS.TEK.COM (Keith Ericson)
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An article appeared detailing the problems with distributing the
equivalent of a magazine on floppy disk. I have no argument with the
points made therein.

But you might consider the potential of electronic distribution via
television or FM broadcast subcarrier.  You have your computer
connected to your FM or TV set which decodes the stuff, filters it
for you and has it stored, waiting for your perusal the next
morning. If you pay extra you can skip over the advertisements; on
the cheap you get ads included with the "useful" stuff.

This is not a new idea. The guy who started Dr. Dobbs'... presented
this - not for the first time - at the SOG in Bend last July (damned
if I can recall his name: but it will come to me as soon as I ship
this note off, I'm sure :-)).

I whould think newspaper publishers would be real nervous about this
if they're foresightful (huh?) enough to know about it.

keith