Borders and Barnes and Noble.
Hate to say it, but because most of the magazines have bad habits of bending their reviews in favor of their sponsors (which is everybody they review), and because they're usually 30% ads anyway, I just read what I (rarely) like there.
I will occasionally buy the Computer Music Specials, even though they're sometimes of limited value.
I have the Ableton Live one. It's ok.
I have the Logic Pro one. It's so, so.
Or is it the other way around?
They have one now on digital mixing that I'll check out and pick up if it looks ok. I'd buy it outright if the other 2 had been stellar, but they weren't.
And, like somebody mentioned, I don't really want to read about OTHER people who use this or that, unless they're teaching me something. Probably 1/4 of each of the CM specials is interviews. Umm. I already USE the app, and don't need to be sold, and I'm not the type that reaches for famous people in order to make me feel good about my purpose (you know: is this "really" a pro app?). I'd rather have 1/4 more stuff about the app, perhaps the deeper stuff, which they never seem to cover.
To be honest, I'm not much for print media anymore. I rarely read past the initial reading anyway, so it seems relatively wasteful, if not fully so.
E-subscriptions would be of interest to me, and in fact I MIGHT get the SOS one just for the articles I can't access there for free. But only for a year.
- zevo
post edited by inmazevo - 2009/03/06 19:05:39