CS&E PRESS RELEASE
CS&E Media is a not for
profit division of Crystal Software and Electronics Ltd, set up to provide
a street publication for Oxford and raise money for the homeless and
underprivileged. With the lack of advertising opportunities in the Amiga
market, and our decision to leave games publishing on this format, we are also
pleased to be supporting the Amiga and its companies with the first
mass market English language publication since Amiga Format. As fans of the
format we are offering our time for free and also hope to raise some money for
charity at the same time.
Currently European Amiga
companies are starved of professional advertising
opportunities. Not only can we offer the highest quality (as you can
see from the attached previews), but also the best value due to offering
free distribution, using an international printer, and of course being a
not for profit organisation.
Amiga Survivor offers a captive
audience of buyers, not browsers, with English language copies being
distributed for free across Europe to customers who spend money either on
the coverdisk or with one of our distributors. Our distributors include Eyetech
and Power who take 6,000 alone, but distribution is spread across Europe via the
likes of GTI and Amiga Future also. There are over 30 user groups and
smaller companies who are also distributors.
A coverdisk at 3.99 a month will see the likes of Max Rally, Cosmo's
Fun Class, Quake and Capital Punishment.
You can order a subscription
directly from CS&E at http://www.pc-software.com/store.html
. We are currently operating a special offer whereby you can claim a
free trial by credit card over the Internet or for 1 pound by cheque. Go to
http://www.pc-software.com/store.html
and enter your details as usual on the secure server, but you will not be billed
and one issue will be sent out with a note asking for your decision. This store
is specially set up not to charge the card, but of course
regular subscriptions will shortly be available at http://www.amigasurvivor.com .
Contact csande@csande.com if you have any
questions or want to provide your details by e-mail.
Due to the ever growing
circulation figures, which now includes wide arrangements in Germany in
particular, we will be putting the advertising rates up from Issue 10.
These only reflect the costs of printing all the new issues. Special offers
still apply if you book from Issue 9 which is coming out next week. You can
find the old advertising rates which still apply for a few days at http://www.amigasurvivor.com . Look
out for a website update very shortly.
Due to the high entry costs to
the market, Crystal Software and Electronics has made a strategic retreat from
retail publishing and is now looking to work with more established publishers in
this field, at least for the time being. Development is coming along well with
many developers benefiting from our input into adding 'marketability' to their
creativity, and securing successful distribution deals.
Work is continuing on the http://www.pc-software.com website where
we will offer flexible pricing models such as pay-per-play and rent-to-own on
all titles. Several rent-to-own games and the pc-software.com website will be
included with each retail product.
