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Make Magazine Subscription Now Available

Posted by michael on from the build-your-own dept.

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.

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  1. OK, But... by Staos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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?

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    1. Re:OK, But... by nomadic · · Score: 4, Funny

      How about something that hasn't been done before?

      Like poking a badger with a spoon?

    2. Re:OK, But... by WinBorg · · Score: 4, Insightful

      If the Mook is cool enough with lots of ideas, then a reader with an adequate IQ should be able to adapt ideas given to applications he wants to do.
      i.e. there is a mention about kite-photography, what if you have a RC plane and dont want to build a kite? is it useless information now? no, it's an idea and you adapt it to your plane.
      come on, have some spunk.

      Before you think different, think.

  2. Mook? by wackysootroom · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought I was buying a Bagazine! WTF?

    1. Re:Mook? by RealAlaskan · · Score: 4, Funny
      I thought I was buying a Bagazine!

      No, it was an ordinary Magazine. The clerk had a cold. Didn't you notice that after she told you: ``$6.13 for the bagazine.'' she said: ``Hab a dice day.''?

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  3. Price by chamilto0516 · · Score: 4, Informative

    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.

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  4. Mook, shmook by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Insightful
    "Their description: 'MAKE is a new hybrid magazine/book ("mook") published quarterly by O'Reilly"

    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.

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  5. But first by ch-chuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you have to have a subscription to "./configure" magazine first?

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