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posted by martyb on Wednesday April 29 2020, @12:49AM   Printer-friendly
from the Who-remembers-Captain-Crunch? dept.

Spring Issue of 2600 Released - Important News :

[For those who may be unfamiliar: 2600: The Hacker Quarterly "is an American seasonal publication of technical information and articles [...] on a variety of subjects including hacking, telephone switching systems, Internet protocols and services, as well as general news concerning the computer 'underground.'" --Ed.]

It gets worse. Our previous issue (the one still on stands) can't be sold to Barnes and Noble "curbside pickup" customers even though most everything else in their stores can be. Why? It's their "policy" that magazines can't be sold this way and that policy can't be changed despite the current circumstances. It makes no sense at all to us. Our issues are right there in the store yet they can't be sold to customers.

Rather than working out options where we might have a chance at survival, we're being told that we have to figure out what to do with all these issues or pay a penalty for not shipping them. We find ourselves in the middle of a Kafka novel where everything is stacked against the publisher because that's just how it is.

We've seen injustices before where distributors have gone out of business without paying us, sometimes simply changing their name and continuing to make millions while we don't get a dime. But this time it's different. This time what's happening affects all of us, and what we were hoping we'd see was a sense of community where we all supported one another and helped everyone get through this terrible crisis. That most certainly hasn't been the case in the publishing world.

We honestly don't know if we'll be able to publish another issue. We intend to try once we know if there's a plan or any sort of relief we can take advantage of. We haven't seen much encouragement from landlords, banks, and insurance companies who can't help and all insist on getting paid in full and on time. Meanwhile, those entities owing us checks say they can't pay us at all. Something has to give.

The story offers several alternative ways to purchase a copy including by subscription or buying the issue digitally (HTML, PDF, Kindle, and Nook).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @08:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 29 2020, @08:45PM (#988327)

    umm.

    first, you do know that political "spectrum" is a horrible multi-dimensional manifold, and not a two dimensional spectrum, right?
    There are no left, right or middle in that space, just where you move next from where you are.

    And, only decent thing one can do to a politician is to hang it on a streetlamp, party affilation is irrelevant.
    Both left and right and center are parasites, the human will to power problem of which the political propaganda you read is but a symptom, is NOT POSSIBLE nor DESIREABLE to solve, because it would take all the fun out of organising, geopolitics and other useless sports genres..
    Accept it and move on. Non idiots usually realize this by age of puberty.

    second, 2600 is a symbol of a whole lot of things, and dismissing it as "hacking magazine to "fight the man" from 1980" is a mistake, same as dismissing the culture that generated it.

    Why? Because of the that counter culture that made it.
    Resistance to the consumerism and innovative sabotage of everything electronic is as relevant as it was in the 1980es.

    Why are you wasting time and reproducing political wingnut crap here, instead of learning how to do magic with computers?