In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Tubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes <SNIP >I can't understand it, why, in this digital age, suffer the hoarding of >what must be nearly a cubic foot of paper ? >Why the trouble and expense of printing ? >Why the costs of snail mail ? > I think because many of the people wanted it that way. I don't really enjoy sitting at the screen reading. The computer sits in one room. QL Today is anywhere I choose to bring it. I could use the laptop but then I could not take that into the garden and read it in the summer time because the screen would be hard to read. >Never mind that the cost is greater than a full fat glossy with CDs included. > That is simple. Full Fat Glossy magazines don't care that you only pay 1/10 of the cost of making them. The advertising more than covers the costs. QL Today has few adverts and a lot of content. <SNIP> >Remember in the old days typing in the programmes published, if only they >had been machine readable ! Pity the Omnireader would no cope with other >than a couple of typewrite scripts, though it was planned to have a >learning capability. By typing them in and making mistakes many of us learned to look at the code, see where it went wrong and learn by it. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk
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