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Linux Journal Announcements
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Jul 12 07:27:08 1995
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 15:20:17 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: phil@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: Linux Journal Announcements
Organization: SSC, Inc,. Seattle, WA (206-782-7733)
Summary: Assorted announcements related to Linux Journal magazine
Keywords: magazine announcements Linux Journal
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
Subjects covered: Linux Journal web site, subscription price changes, user
group promotion, commercial vendor promotion.
Linux Journal Web Site
----------------------
We announced this site about two months ago. Since that time accesses
have grown to 20,000+ per day. We continue to add more information to the
web site. This added information includes:
* Eric Youngdale's articles on ELF from Linux Journal 12 & 13
* book reviews
* all articles from issue #3 (still being done--this is because
issue 3 is our of print)
* Linux User Group list (yes, I realize there are two or more others
on the net--we all need to get together on this one)
* requested articles from other issues of LJ
* supporting code that goes with articles
* manual for the Red Hat Commercial Linux distribution (they only
have a 14.4 SLIP link so we are helping them out)
* covers and tables of contents of all issues of LJ and advertisers
indices and contact information from recent issues
If there is an article from a back issue, send e-mail to pe@ssc.com and
let Mac know what you are looking for. Volunteers are doing the
conversion of the articles to HTML (and a big thank you to all of them)
so we forward requests to them as they have time available.
Note that if you are a vendor who advertises in Linux Journal, make sure
you get your contact information to Carlie Fairchild (carlie@ssc.com) and
she will add it to the advertisers index. If you are interested in
creating your own presence on the web, also contact Carlie. We make web
space and design resources available to LJ advertisers at reasonable
rates.
Subscription Price Change
-------------------------
This is a pre-announcement. If you are a current subscriber about to
renew or have been putting off subscribing for a while, this is your last
change at our $19 (in the US, $24 elsewhere in North America, $29
worldwide) price. I just received a message from out printer informing us
of a *huge* price increase on paper. We are talking almost a 20% increase
in the total printing cost and this increase just covers the price of the
50# paper stock used on the inside sections of LJ. We have previously
absorbed a price increase on the cover paper plus a large increase in
postal rates.
We want to continue to make LJ affordable but it has to be affordable for
us to print as well. We settled on a $3 price increase for 1-year
subscriptions and a $5 increase on 2-year subscriptions. If paper prices
and postage prices remain fairly stable, we can live with that and hope
that you can too. Oh, if you happen to own a forest suitable for making
into paper and want to support the Linux community, please contact me. :-)
Linux Promotions
----------------
We are in the process of putting together a promotion for Linux User
groups. I will be a great deal to both help user groups expand their base
and help get Linux out to their members. We are finalizing the plan now
but, if you are head of a user group (Linux or Unix) or are in the process
of/thinking of starting such a group, send e-mail to Lydia Kinata
(lydia@ssc.com) and let he know you exist. As soon as the details are
finalized she will send you the information.
If you are the manufacturer of a Linux-based commercial product (yes,
Linux CD distributions count--and are the most popular) make sure Carlie
Fairchild (carlie@ssc.com) knows you exist. Many (probably most)
manufacturers include a "Free Sample Issue of Linux Journal" card with
their product. Carlie can tell you how you can do that too. Why do you
want to do that? 1) It adds value to your product, 2) It makes Linux look
more real when people can see an entire magazine dedicated to it and 3)
helping us promote Linux Journal helps Linux grow--much of our resources
goes into promotion of Linux itself. For example, trade show booths and
sample issues of the magazine get Linux out in the real world.
End of a Long Message
---------------------
That's the end of what is happening right now. We have three more
interesting things in the works that should signicantly increase Linux's
stature and hope to be able to announce them in the next month. If you
have subscription questions (including change of address) you can e-mail
those messges to subs@ssc.com. If you have "generic questions" send them
to linux@ssc.com and a human will figure out where they should be routed.
We are putting the final touches on our new catalog. It will be mailed in
early August and will contain information on some Linux products that have
not been announced yet (and we better have in place by then or I'm in
trouble). If you are a subscriber to LJ, you will receive the catalog.
For others who would like to receive it, send your mailing address to
info@ssc.com or fill out a catalog request form on our web site.
Finally, check out our web site (http://www.ssc.com/) and let know what
else needs to be there. The Linux Resources and Linux Journal sections
are intended to be a resource for the Linux community (and, the SSC
Products side is, of course, intended to help us pay for the Linux side
:-) ).
--
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)PUBS-REF
>>> Publishers of pocket references for UNIX, C, ..., Linux Journal <<<
E-mail: phil@ssc.com Phone: (206)782-7733 Fax: (206)782-7191
SSC/Linux Journal web site: http://www.ssc.com/
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