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> Disagree indeed. This happens in the PC/Mac world too, and those
> companies certainly don't go all bust.

You can't compare the Amiga/PC/Mac markets, they are *completely* 
different.

>  jR> made  worthless once the product appears on a magazine, and people
>  jR> aren't even  buying new products - waiting instead for the 
> > inevitable
>  jR> coverdisk  release. 
> 
> I doubt this, since one never knows if some program is going to
> make it onto a coverdisk in the first place.

I'm afraid it's true. We've talked to *lots* of people, investing a lot 
of time and effort into trying to find out why the market for 
professional software is so low in the UK (compared to the high number of 
Amiga's owned). Time and time again, the answers come back both from end 
users and from shops that the only professional software they buy is the 
'free' stuff on magazines. I was suprised. I would have thought Piracy 
was the big killer, but no, it's not...

Jolyon