In Germany one issue is 18,40 Euro (about 28,80$ thanks to the weak Dollar nowosiris wrote:A single issue of CM here in Texas costs @ $18.00 tax inclusive. The main probby is usually the discs are stolen outright from the case, & I've had more than one bad disc I've had to return to the store that my computer wouldn't even recognize. It's only by luck they actually have a copy left to exchange. It's actually how I lucked into Zebra CM. My CM disc didn't work, took it back, no more copies, but while rummaging around in the stacks found an orphan cover disc that had become detached from the magazine. It was months old, but I begged the salesgirl to let me have it in exchange for what I returned. Struck Gold on that one.
In fact, compared to many german magazines who do merely advertising-"tests and reviews", CM is nice to read. Sure, you can find much of it, and often in more detail, here at KVR and elsewhere, but in CM it is without the snobs
And reading 5 pages in the mag gives you - most of the time - more info about some new product or how to do this and leave that. Just because at our nice forum here at page 1 in the middle latest you learn that X hates Y forever, and from that second on the next flamewar begins, and on page 3 you have to look at the title of the thread to learn what it was initially all about
