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Make Magazine Subscription Now Available
Jac_no_k writes "O'Reilly's Make magazine is now taking subscription orders. They have an offer for one bonus 'mook' by using the offer code 'M5ZXML'. Their description: 'MAKE is a new hybrid magazine/book ("mook") published quarterly by O'Reilly. MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. It follows in line with the Hacks books and Hardware Hacking Projects, but it takes a highly visual and personal approach.'" If the quality of the magazine is the same as their technical books, this should be a worthwhile subscription.
The problem here is its such a broad topic. People's interest diverge so far that it's really a much more suitable topic for a generalized search engine Google rather than a magazine format. While some people will tend to think that stuff in the kitchen is cool, others will think it should include coding. Others will want automotive and others will prefer architecture or explosives or metalwork or hide tanning or alternative energy. The Foxfire series tried to do something similar, but they also had a theme beyond just doing it yourself which was doing it the old fashioned way. That only appealed to a certain set. Coming at it from the opposite, doing it yourself and doing in the new way doesn't really seem to work as a theme.
I think the real question is, do we still need magazines?
In Soviet russia, only old Koreans profit from pictures of Natalie Portman stored on Beowulf Clusters.
I thought I was buying a Bagazine! WTF?
I will only purchase a subscription if every "mook" has a different animal pictured on the cover.
One Year - 4 Volumes $34.95
Not bad, but not too good either. I dropped my subscriptions to Linux Journal and Linux Magazine when their prices went this high. I'll probably buy one or two off of the shelf before I decide to subscribe.
Magic Eight Ball: Outlook not so good., Hmmm, how about Excel and Word?
If Penthouse magazine can go bankrupt even with naked boobies, what hope is there for a magazine without any boobies?
out of the office supplies? Hell yeah!!!
If you don't know what AltaVista is (was), get off my lawn.
Make is a mook that is really like a book but took the...
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Scientific American. I hope people didn't think I meant something awful.
~>make o'reilly
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*actually it's not ORA it's https://www.pubservice.com/
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I've given up fighting the word "blog" -- I just don't care anymore. The word "Mook", however, I'm ready to come out of retirement against.
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I just tried to subscribe, got the same error. You'd think they would be ready for large volume for a subscription launch. If it was the Slashdot effect, that was really fast. I'd bet there's something else going on, such as a poor implementation of the subscription server. If they crash that soon, then they may not be able to handle a normal web traffic load, much less the /. crowd.
jdbear
If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
me thinks they need to "Make" a subscription service that can handle a decent slashdotting...
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte
Not sure we need another dumb-sounding buzzword for something that has been around for more than 90 years. "Afred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, "Weird Tales", "Astounding"...all of those old anthology magazines so little different from anthology books. Especially the issues with a single novella.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
i thought a mook was, like, someone who listened to limp bizkit. i swear i read that in the new york times. which may explain something.
Karma: T-rexcellent.
Don't you have to have a subscription to "./configure" magazine first?
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It's outsourced.
I tried to subscribe, submitting credit card immediately.
I got an invoice instead.
I called them. They won't have the data until Monday, because ORA has it (supposedly). They said, "sometimes that happens with websites."
I threw up my hands and decided to submit payment for the invoice, using a credit card.
I filled everything out. I checked all the appropriate boxes. I hit "Submit".
The payment page simply reloaded. No confirmation, no email, no nothing.
At this point, I've tried to pay twice. I thought I HAD paid. Twice. If this is how ORA wants to deal with their subscriptions, they just lost one. I have better things to do than help their outsourced subscription-handling company debug their craptacular approach to accepting money.
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I'll probably buy the first issue, but wait on getting a subscription.
The problem with reading about these kinds of hacks online is that there are so many of them. I never know which ones are the most useful or the coolest. I don't know how many times I have paid little attention to an article on Slashdot, only to find it was a really cool topic when I see it on the Screen Savers.
I'm hoping this magazine can help provide some insight, and maybe I'll learn something.
I thought magazine news went in the developer section.
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Our subscription fulfillment house has processed nearly 600 subscription orders since the original slashdot. But the truth is, we should have been able to handle the load. I have been told that they in fact did identify a problem within the past hour and have corrected it. Everything appears to be running smoothly. However, if you continue to experience difficulties subscribing, please contact me directly at dan@oreilly.com. Dan Woods Associate Publisher MAKE dan@oreilly.com
There are 3 magazine business models:
1. The readers pay
2. the advertisers pay
3. hybrid of the first two
I don't mind any of them because I understand that the business model affects the editorial content. Sometimes, I want to read the stuff the advertisers will pay for me to read and sometimes I am willing to pay for something else. Sometimes the ads themselves are quite informative and interesting.
If you must moderate, please moderate as irrelevent, not something bad, because I'm sure someone will find this interest
Someone needs to tell O'Reilly that "mook" is already a word. And, um, a derogatory one at that.
Another example of modern usage:
Read my blog.