I see that after only four issues PIQ, the supposed replacement magazine for
Newtype USA, has ceased publication.

This doesn't really surprise me because Newtype USA was a specialist
publication aimed at a specific group of people, to try and replace it with a
general publication aimed at a much wider group was doomed to fail.


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Peter Boulter wrote:
> I see that after only four issues PIQ, the supposed replacement magazine for
> Newtype USA, has ceased publication.
> 
> This doesn't really surprise me because Newtype USA was a specialist
> publication aimed at a specific group of people, to try and replace it with a
> general publication aimed at a much wider group was doomed to fail.

	I have to say it:

	They did not survive and find themselves NewType.

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> I see that after only four issues PIQ, the supposed replacement magazine 
> for
> Newtype USA, has ceased publication.

Does any of the international subscribers lurking around here have any 
information or URLs/Links what happens to their remaining subscription ?

On 3 Aug, 09:58, Peter Böckmann  wrote:

> Does any of the international subscribers lurking around here have any
> information or URLs/Links what happens to their remaining subscription ?

I think I was due one more issue, based on the two-for-one offer on my
remaining Newtype subscription, and I only got 3 of the 4 published
Piq issues.....

And no - nothing at all, as yet. There was a long discussion on the
AnimeonDVD forums, but nobody has heard anything. There's some
speculation that Piq was only launched to try to burn off a lot of the
outstanding Newtype subscriptions, or at least to whittle them down to
a manageable number.

Jon L wrote:
> On 3 Aug, 09:58, Peter Böckmann  wrote:
>> Does any of the international subscribers lurking around here have
>> any information or URLs/Links what happens to their remaining
>> subscription ?

> I think I was due one more issue, based on the two-for-one offer on my
> remaining Newtype subscription, and I only got 3 of the 4 published
> Piq issues.....

I got all four issues to germany but i had 10-12 NewTypes "outstanding".
I am not sure if the 2-for-1-offer was only for US-subscriptions. I think 
all informations i read where always concerning US-subscribers. Newtype was 
heavy (600 gramms iirc) which is more than a pound and makes international 
postal expensive. But PIQ was not so heavy. Thus the 2-for-1 would have been 
possible for foreign subscribers without a postal-cost-problem.

> And no - nothing at all, as yet. There was a long discussion on the
> AnimeonDVD forums, but nobody has heard anything. There's some
> speculation that Piq was only launched to try to burn off a lot of the
> outstanding Newtype subscriptions, or at least to whittle them down to
> a manageable number.

This was also my idea. But they took new subscriptions and iirc they werent 
so high-priced as newtype.
So perhaps PIQ wasnt launched intentionally to burn subscriptions down but 
the company behind Newtype used the opportunity to burn down some of the 
outstanding subscriptions or get rid of the "problem".

A "central" broker (kind of "Treuhandservice" in German) would be nice. They 
would take the subsciption money (and do these credit card stuff) and when 
the magazin (often small when good and not mainstreamers) says "next issue 
went to the printing machines"("gone gold" in gamer/software-slang) they get 
the money for the next issue (1/3,1/6,1/12,... of the subscription price) 
and the remaining money stays at the "broker"/credit-card-Service-Company.

I was more clever than when i was younger and saved the page (but Opera does 
not save the date):
"For those readers that were just starting to get behind the magazine, the 
staff of PiQ gives a hearty "thank you" to all of you for your support. To 
those of you who subscribed (or were formerly subscribed to NTUSA), more 
details will be coming soon."
But http://www.piqmag.com/ doesnt seem to exist anymore :-( Perhaps 
archive.org "helps".