Just out of interest, how many subscribers do you have at the moment, and are they all in the UK, or do you have some from overseas as well?
We've got about 350 subscribers at the moment and sell about 500 copies of each issue in Total Amiga. A large minority of our subscribers are outside the UK, IIRC we sent the last issue of the mag to 17 different countries. We also have several Amiga dealers in different countries who sell single issues of the magazine.
Any plans for a German (or even French/Italian) language version?
I don't think there would ever be another language version directly from us (for a start sadly we don't have anyone with a second language and also it would be an awful lot more work). That said we have let a couple of foriegn language magazines translate and publish articles from TA and are quite happy to extend this. If anyone is interested in using Total Amiga content in their title then please contact me privately.
Also, are there any plans to turn Total Amiga into a commercial magazine, if/when the Amiga market picks up to make this commercially viable?
We don't have any plans at the moment. If the market does pick up and commercial titles appear I think there will still be room for an enthusiast magazine like TA.
And finally, Once Amiga OS4 is released, will you continue to feature news and reviews for Pegasos and MorphOS, or will you go to being an Amiga-only magazine (meaning AmigaOS only)
Currently we plan to continue to cover both platforms and in the short term I don't think this will pose a problem because so much software is common between the two. In the longer term we'll see how things pan out, if the platforms diverge sufficiently we may need to make a decision as to which we follow. Remember that to a large extent the products covered by TA are those that interest our contributors so the choices they make will also influence our direction.
Robert Williams
Editor, Total Amiga
