I must admit, I haven't paid incredibly close attention to the details concerning this split-off affair, but I have to say it's awfully big of you to be saying nice things in 'public' so soon after your discovery.
Another magazine (which will remain nameless here) had a similar incident occur where a former editor nabbed the original site's code (html, css, and all that), some of its content, and courted its various contributors (myself included) to 'switch sides'. Chances are you've heard of the former, and probably not the latter. While the publications I write for tend to shy away from most things resembling 'goth', there's only a limited skeleton crew behind the whole of them.
From what I've learned about the German magazine scene, it seems to be twice as catty. Maybe it's because the staff and such are occasionally compensated with more than a CD or two a week? That's at least my pet theory.
its a hard situation. I am the first to tell people to work together and to help any one i can. Alex has also been a close friend for over 4 years.
But.. its a really big hit this is, on the emotional level more then anything else. I mean it all happened just now but every one was saying he has been contacting every one for month and also i got some e-mails from advertisers i couldn’t ignore. Straight up telling me "Alex e-mailed us and from his e-mail we though you went belly up. "that’s a quote from one of them.
I think i have fairly good idea which magazine you are talking about , and the incident
Heh, you probably do know the zines in question - they're both still active, so that slims things down right quick.
I'm quite surprised it's Alex myself, especially since I know you've known each other as long as I've known you.
Contacting your advertisers is really pretty low; it's one thing to split off on one's own, and taking your content with you, but involving the cash cows is awfully mean. Web zines are hard enough to run, but print is a thousand times more so, and advertisers in general are hard to lure into buying ad space.
I hope this doesn't screw up you or your staff's efforts too badly.
I'm glad that you and he are both being diplomatic about the whole thing, and I hope you can still preserve your friendship.
As for the emotional aspect of finding out this has been in the works for a while - that smarts. But I think the lesson to take from things is to try to keep up open channels of communication, so that frustrations remain managed and there isn't a need to do things behind other people's backs. I mean that for both you and he. I don't know if the split was preventable or inevitable, but I found it predictable, if that makes any sense.
Another magazine (which will remain nameless here) had a similar incident occur where a former editor nabbed the original site's code (html, css, and all that), some of its content, and courted its various contributors (myself included) to 'switch sides'. Chances are you've heard of the former, and probably not the latter. While the publications I write for tend to shy away from most things resembling 'goth', there's only a limited skeleton crew behind the whole of them.
From what I've learned about the German magazine scene, it seems to be twice as catty. Maybe it's because the staff and such are occasionally compensated with more than a CD or two a week? That's at least my pet theory.
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But.. its a really big hit this is, on the emotional level more then anything else. I mean it all happened just now but every one was saying he has been contacting every one for month and also i got some e-mails from advertisers i couldn’t ignore. Straight up telling me "Alex e-mailed us and from his e-mail we though you went belly up. "that’s a quote from one of them.
I think i have fairly good idea which magazine you are talking about , and the incident
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I'm quite surprised it's Alex myself, especially since I know you've known each other as long as I've known you.
Contacting your advertisers is really pretty low; it's one thing to split off on one's own, and taking your content with you, but involving the cash cows is awfully mean. Web zines are hard enough to run, but print is a thousand times more so, and advertisers in general are hard to lure into buying ad space.
I hope this doesn't screw up you or your staff's efforts too badly.
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As for the emotional aspect of finding out this has been in the works for a while - that smarts. But I think the lesson to take from things is to try to keep up open channels of communication, so that frustrations remain managed and there isn't a need to do things behind other people's backs. I mean that for both you and he. I don't know if the split was preventable or inevitable, but I found it predictable, if that makes any sense.
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any way, why don't you call me once in a while anyway. you know catch up so you don't have to hear it online
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