Mags and where to get them

[lhalliday@creo.com]

The availability of magazines tends to be a vicious circle: people 
don't ask for them, stores don't carry them, so people don't know 
about them and don't ask for them.

Here in Vancouver we can get VW Motoring, Volksworld (both U.K.) and 
Super VW (France) at all decent magazine stores. I subscribe to Super 
VW, which costs about the same as buying it over the counter (FF475 
last year), but it comes by airmail, so I get it a month before the 
stores do. It's also great fun at the bank getting bank drafts in 
French Francs - they *always* have to look up how to do it. :-)

I have a few issues of VW Scene International that I've bought on 
trips to Germany. I also have a special French issue they did a while 
back. I can't get VW Scene International locally, but can (and 
sometimes do) buy Gute Fahrt and Auto, Motor und Sport. My German is 
just short of causing an international incident, but I work with 
customers in France and Quebec. Besides, German companies rarely take 
credit cards. :-(

If you want the magazines, demand them. If your local supplier can't 
or won't get them for you, why not check the soc.culture.whatever FAQs 
for magazine stores that might be able to help you?

Laura Halliday VE7LDH         "C'est une femme mutine, assez
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