"Arfa Daily" wrote in message
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"ian field" wrote in message
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At the beginning of the year I discovered that Technology-at-Home was
suspending publication, at which point I enquired about the likelihood of
payment for fault reports I'd submitted, I was assured that these
payments had been budgeted for and told to send an invoice. A month has
passed with no reply so I emailed again - also with no reply, so I did a
bit of googling to see if I could find any info on what's going on.

Among the hits was a forum on which it transpires that Television
Magazine has also gone tits-up!

So far the messages coming out of Technology-at-Home suggest a modicum of
optimism that they may yet return to the market place the Television link
redirects to Saint John Patrick Publishers "site under construction" - I
wondered if anyone out there had any further news on either publication?
Hi Ian

I spoke to John R on the phone last week, and he had been told by one of
the contributors that stayed on with TeleMag after we left, that it was
definitely finished for good. My copy was always got in for me by my
newsagent, so I didn't have a subscription, but apparently, Nexus have
written to all the subscribers to tell them that publication had ceased.
As far as T @ H goes, I also had an invoice in for fault reports and an
ongoing article series that I was doing for them, but as soon as I found
out the level of financial problem that the owners were suffering, I
cancelled it. I am still in touch with them, but I don't know yet if there
is any definite intention to continue publishing by whatever method, in
the future. I know that Steve has not personally ruled it out, but I don't
know how it will stand with the other two. I have told them that if they
do get it going again, I will continue to contribute for free for as long
as it takes. The way I look at it, with the sad decline of TeleMag after
the editing team were changed, and now its demise, I'd rather contribute
my time for free, if it gets a valid publication for the trade, going
again. What is your take on this ?

Arfa


There are certain times of day that I like to get away from the PC and read
articles printed on paper so I miss T_at_H and will miss TeleMag - even what
it became under Nexus!

For this reason web based publishing wouldn't appeal to me unless its very
low priced, after all most of the likely content can be found on the net
anyway - even if it is a little hard work running searches to find it.

As T_at_H is partly made up of the team I dealt with when I used to be a
regular contributor at TeleMag, I would like to see them return from
publication suspended, although I feel that they tried to cater too much for
the technically minded man in the street and less so for the "down to the
metal" service engineer. Under the Nexus flag TeleMag was severely weakened
and T_at_H might have done better to have taken them head on!

The link re-direct from TeleMag to SJPP seems to hint they've already been
sold and may re appear in due course - hopefully better than it was under
Nexus.