I guess Wired _was_ for sale...
Shelton Garner
Condé Nast nabs Wired
By Susan Countryman
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
May 8, 1998, 8:45 a.m. PT
update Wired magazine is being bought by Advance Publications's Condé
Nast Publications unit, the companies announced today.
Wired Ventures, parent company of Wired magazine, will retain Wired
Digital, the online arm of the company. Neither Wired, nor Conde Nast
would comment on the sale price.
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Ok, what I wanna know is -- what if Conde Nast wants to create a
online version of Wired?
lee "first The WELL...now Wired, what's a pretentious, supercilious,
non-Usenet-reading person to do? 8->" bumgarner, who spell checked
THIS version of this post. 8-)
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Abby Franquemont
In article <B21F268E2BC4B317.57DFA218...@library-proxy.airnews.net>,
Shelton Garner <lee_s_b...@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>Ok, what I wanna know is -- what if Conde Nast wants to create a
>online version of Wired?
I actually think that's an interesting question. What is Conde Nast's
present web publishing presence like? I thought, in the print context
at least, that most of their publications had individual editorial
and publishing staffs, but they seem to use www.condenet.com as a
place to list several magazines they publish and I didn't see any
real online publishing happening there apart from CN Traveler.
I don't think, as a general thing, that most of the magazine-
publishing industry has grokked the online thang yet. For the most
part what I keep seeing them doing is at best having a form for buying
a subscription to the print copy. Also, surprisingly few seem to have
a mechanism for accepting queries or submissions electronically,
though certainly that could be a money-saver provided editors weren't
all the kind of people who have to print out e-mail to read it. Heh.
Now, I can't say as I figure this is a current-event digression though.
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