Web Sites Galore (Web User)

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Product:	Web User
Date:	09/06/01 (6 review reads)
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With so many different computer magazines on the shelf it is quite easy to mistake one for another if you are in a hurry and a week ago I was in a hurry and picked up Webuser when I intended to get my hands on ComputerActive. Both have a red background masthead with the magazine name partly in black and I discovered my mistake at the supermarket checkout. But somewhere in the darkened recesses of my aging brain cell a thought came forward that this was the magazine that I had read a review about and had intended to buy one issue for a look see. After all at just 99p (trial price) the cost was hardly likely to break the bank and there would be no need for me to go onto bread and dripping.

Having more than a passing resemblance to ComuterActive it is not surprising that one reviewer stated that it was published by the same company.

Currently at issue 6 (31st May to 13th June) Webuser is published by IPC Country & Leisure Media Ltd. With issue 7 (available on Thursday 14th June) there will be a FREE supplement of the 500 best websites in a handy booklet. Subscriptions with delivery to your door costs £31.20 for a full year including post and packaging or get it yourself from your local shop for a year at the cost of £25.74. As subscriptions usually mean that you get the magazine cheaper than buying from the shop, this price differential indicates to me that very soon the “trial price” will disappear and be replaced by the real selling price. My guess is, at least £1.20.

However two subscription forms inside the magazine tell a different story. For a Direct Debit mandate of £12.87 every six months, you get one year’s worth of magazine delivered to your door.

At 92 glossy pages this “the no-nonsense guide to the best of the net” (their words not mine) aims to tell all about the ‘net without jargon and in the main succeeds. With a fair selection of adverts for this and that, the magazine also has the
obligatory reader’s letters pages and as a change there is the Reader helps Reader page and a Reader hints & tips page in which the best tip receives £25. There is even a page where readers can publicise their own web site.

The rest of the magazine is about all things “web” and you don’t need me to describe the contents. Do like I did and buy a copy for a look see but don’t pick up ComputerActive by mistake.

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