#Ami Transactor received
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Yeah, it *is* a nice magazine. I just wish they could get 'em out on
a timely basis. I wonder what'll happen if Tranactor actually folds — will
we all get subscriptions to _Amiga User_ or something? "Croftward
Publishing, the Ziff-Davis of Great Britain." Feh. (Anybody remember
MicroSystems?) Hoping for the best…
–dds
I've heard unhappy rumors about AmigaUser itself.
……Betty
Dale,
Personally, I think that Croftward is going to take our money
(whatever is left) and run. I'm not very optimistic about the chances of
seeing another issue in the next few decades.
Consider the fact that the principle writers and the editor are no
longer working for (with) the magazine!
-RSL-
I doubt Croftward's going home with much. If they were, they'd still be
getting Transactor out, on schedule. As business concerns go, my
experiences with Croftward have been above average on the ethical scale.
I don't know much about Croftward, but I would think that if a company
bought a magazine they would have the capacity to generate more than one or
two magazines, even though the magazine's own revenues were low. I don't
know who's fault it is that Transactor "went down the tubes", I just know
that Croftward didn't seem to help the situation much!
-RSL-
I wish I could say the same re: Croftward! They are not very ethical in
their dealings with their writers. THat has been my experience with
AmigaUser International – wrote six articles, was paid for two, and those
payments after much effort on my part and that of some ENglish friends. And
their track record with the Transactor has been pathetic.
I'm glad they have done better by you, and hope they have done as well with
all of the vendors, because (as I hear it) you have plenty of problems with
distributors – don't need any with magazines.
Well, if that's the case, then their rep in Transami is destroying that
reputation pretty thoroughly.
-larry
Do you have figures to indicate that Croftward is pulling a lot of money
out of Transami, rather than backing out to minimize losses? I don't know
anything about the finances, but do know my personal experiences with
Croftward, which would incline me to believe they would be above average to
deal with in a sinking ship. When a ship is sinking, everybody has to get
off.
Cheath,
My comments were not directed toward any actions on the part of Croftward
in regard to their financing or lack of it for Transami itself, but rather
toward their rep in Toronto, who, from the time she started, instituted a
policy (sanctioned by Croftward or not), of not paying authors until they
bitched loud enough. Without authors, a magazine doesn't have a lot going
for it, and it seemed like she was doing her best to make sure that
Transami didn't have any left. As I say, if Croftward has a good reputation
for fair dealing, their rep was destroying that, at least in the eyes of
the authors.
I have no evidence that Croftward was in any way attempting to sink
Transami, nor did I mean to imply it, if that's the way anyone read my
comments. I just don't know enough about the entire situation to be able to
make that kind of judgement, and can only comment based upon the way I, and
many of my friends were treated.
-larry
Yeah, it's a bad sign when the editors jump ship. I know the three
main editors (Chris Zamara, Nick Sullivan, and Tim Grantham) are no longer
there; what about Malcolm O'Brien and Paul Bosaki?
If Croftward does "take our money and run", isn't that called
"fraud"? What about the way they've not payed their authors? Has anybody
talked to the US Postal Service about this? Or the Canadian Postal
authorities? I know that the US Post Office takes a very dim view of mail
fraud. (I'm not a lawyer, I don't even know any lawyers, so don't take
anything I say about the law as gospel.)
Do you have the money to sue an English company for failure to deliver a
Canadian magazine to the United States? Could you imagine the legal
contortions that would require? It ends up wasting more money (even with
the expense of a stamp. No sense crying ofver spilt milk (money).
Que sera, sera!