A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com (John - DeBert) (01/01/89)
In article #990.23AFEC52@isishq.FIDONET.ORG, Geoffrey Welsh writes: > > > From: mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites) > > Message-ID: <6287@emcard.UUCP> > > > Has anyone heard anything about the status of 8 bit Transactor? > > I spoke to Richard Evers (publisher of the T.) at the World of Commodore > >show a couple of weeks ago. Commodore Computing International has bought >out at least the 8-bit edition of the T. and publication will resume >ASAP. To the best of my knowledge, editorial policy will not change >suddenly, nor will management. > > > Waiting for my article to be published, > > That should only be a matter of time but, if you've ever seen their > >office, you'll understand that things might get misplaced once in a >while. It never hurts to re-send the article with a letter explaining >that you wanted to make sure they had it. But please do wait a reasonable >amount of time (i.e. several months) before re-submitting... editorial >lead time and mail result in many delays from their inclusion of your >article to the time you get a copy of the mag with the article in it. > > >-- > Geoffrey Welsh - via FidoNet node 1:221/162 > UUCP: ...!watmath!isishq!Geoffrey.Welsh > Internet: Geoffrey.Welsh@isishq.FIDONET.ORG I received this letter from Transactor Publishing today regarding the state of Transactor: Date: 30-Dec-88 21:54 PST From: Transactor HQ Subj: Rumours from USenet Hi John: Thank you for posting this reply to the net. As you have noted, the December issue (9:2) has now been distributed. At World of Commodore in Toronto (Dec. 1-4) we had 9:2 of Transactor as well as 1:3 and 1:4 of TransAmi. Croftward Publishing (who does indeed publish Commodore Computing International and Amiga User International) are now printing, distributing, selling ads, handling the sub base and all those other admin things. Transactor Publishing (Chris, Nick and I) are still making the magazines. We evaluate submissions, edit them, set them and send them out for final output. Once we get the film back, Croftward carries the ball from there. We are currently putting together 9:3 of Transactor and have every intention of continuing the magazine as long as there is a demand for it. We are still receiving good submissions (though at a slower rate since our summertime travails). We still have a large pool of submissions to draw from and a large number of past, present and potential authors. I hope to get some new authors soon too. We have a couple of ideas "in the can" that we think readers will be pleased with and of course we have two new columns. We have Todd Heimarck doing The ML Column and Joel Rubin doing The Edge Connection. We've just started on GEOS and there's a lot of territory to cover there. And we keep on getting submissions on Power C, CP/M, C128 specific articles, etc. Our new arrangement with Croftward has worked out well. It means that we spend our whole lives making magazines <grin>. We did 4 mags in 6 weeks! We know that Max Jacobson is downstairs selling ads - something we were never good at. Ad revenue is the lifeblood of most magazines and our increase in ad sales is a shot in the arm. It's true that the Amiga is where the spotlight (read: money) is these days but we're (Transactor & Croftward) not about to let Transactor Classic fall by the wayside. There's still a demand for it. You probably know yourself of people who have switched from a 64 or 128 to an Amiga (or to a clone <shudder>). We've lost some of our market for T there. But word is that C= sold more 64's in 1988 than they did in '87! Make sure that all those new owners know about Transactor! As long as there are people to read T (and vendors to advertise in it), we'll keep making Transactors for 8-bit users. Hope that says it all, John, cause I gotta get back to work on 9:3! Malcolm O'Brien Editor, Transactor And that's the story. JJD (A-N-Onymouse@cup.portal.com) "Never look a gift llama in the mouth"