Amiga Survivor is a well
established Amiga magazine, originally published by Robert Iveson as a paid-for
games publication. CS&E set up a media division to relaunch the
magazine and continue in the Amiga market. With the alleged financial
difficulties of Amiga,Inc and lack of information or support from them it
is now only viable for the magazine to continue with the support of
other companies in this market, since we made a decision this week not
to rejoin the Amiga market for the AmigaDE. While we do not want to abandon a
sinking ship, it really is up to the companies involved to show they are
professional enough to advertise. I've enclosed a bit of a poem at the end which
illustrates my point!
Distribution agreements
have been made with Amiga Plus, Amiga Future and GTI in
Germany. Power Computing, Eyetech and Analogic in the UK, and
CS&E's existing team of 17 world-wide distributors, including Nascr (http://www.nascr.net ). With magazines only
going out to active buyers of magazines, hardware and software we have the
backbone of the industry and expect little wastage from a print run of around
15,000.
It is a full colour A4
publication of 24 to 40 pages every two months. Paid-for subscriptions will
still be accepted with a coverdisk and guaranteed subscription going out to such
customers directly from CS&E. This publication will of course not be
profitable without successful advertising that works.
The price of advertising is as
follows:
| 1 page full colour |
£400 |
£320 |
| ½ page full colour |
£200 |
£160 |
| ¼ page full colour |
£100 |
£80 |
| 1 page black and white |
£150 |
|
| ½ page black and white |
£95 | |
Black and white pages are
designed for user groups, non-profit making organisations and gaming companies
who would otherwise not be able to advertise.
Any requests for free copies of
magazines (from companies) will be accepted. Readers can subscribe directly or
buy something from one of our distributors.
By the end of January
we will have our answer. Personally I don't expect anything to happen but
I've got things in place to offer Amiga companies a viable and verifiable
advertising opportunity.
Please view the attached
preview of a couple of the inside pages in full colour, made on
Pagestream.
The magazine will be sent to
distributors in February subject to the commitment of a couple of
advertisers.
A man wakes up under an ADVERTISED blanket
on an ADVERTISED
mattress
,
pulls off ADVERTISED under clothing
,
bathes with
ADVERTISED soap
,
shaves with an ADVERTISED razor
,
brushes with
ADVERTISED toothpaste
,
slaps on some ADVERTISED cologne
,
puts on
ADVERTISED clothing
,
drinks ADVERTISED coffee
,
drives to work in
an ADVERTISED car
,
and then refuses to ADVERTISE believing it doesn't
pay.
Later, if business is poor,
he ADVERTISES it for sale.
David Connolly
Managing Director
Crystal
Software and Electronics Ltd
7200 The Quorum
Oxford Business
Park
Oxford
OX4 2JZ
http://www.csande.com
Tel: +44 (0) 1865
481421
Fax: +44 (0) 1865 481482