On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:57, Carlos F. Lange wrote:
What about cover mounts for magazines? Wouldn't that have the same effect of visibility?
I would say no. Linux magazines have a very low visibility. I have to look hard for them behind the rows and rows of Win and Mac magazines (and I always pull some of them to the front :). But the common user only buys magazines _after_ he/she starts using a system and, even then, such a user may feel overwhelmed by all the overload of Linux programs the magazines tend to offer.
It's not just Linux magazines. Here in Germany, c't magazine repeatedly had
openSUSE DVDs on the cover (and of course a number of articles about it
inside, too). This is one of the largest and also most well-respected
computer magazines there is on the German market. This for sure does have
large visibility in the entire IT market, not just the Linux niche.
For other countries, I have no clue if and how we ever distributed DVDs that
way.
CU
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Stefan Hundhammer