"Ed Huntress" wrote in news:xT4fh.4165$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe10.lga:
I had lunch with him at a PMPA event not too long ago. He moves a lot slower but he's still pretty sharp.
True enough. But they have competition for their "splinter" these days. I've been reading Automatic Machining for somewhere around 25 years. I suppose I'll read it until it folds. It's just one of those things that have become a comfortable part of the routine. Plus Don has always been good at writing "pep talk" editorials. A little corn ball most of the time, but you usually feel a little better about the industry after reading them.
I wonder how Lloyd Graff's rag is doing?
I find it hard to believe it's making any money with it, but you never know. Same with Production Machining which is a mag that I really like. Not just because they've published a couple of things that I've written, well, maybe just a little. But PM has decent technical content, plus they get out and interview real life people, which is becoming exceedingly rare these days.
Same here. We still advertise in it a few times per year but it's not a big part of the budget. It's a tough call. Our customers and distributors complain when we don't advertise in it and our competitors do. Honestly we don't get much in the way of leads so I suppose you could look at it as brand building.