On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 23:36:54 -0400, Dave Smith wrote:

> Dan Abel wrote:
>
>>
>> Seems like your typical US business practice. Buy out your competition,
>> milk the product for what it's worth, and then close it down. Now
>> you've got the whole market, but just need to print one magazine, and
>> have one set of staff. You can choose the best staff from each, and
>> ditch the rest. What's not to like about this, if you are just looking
>> for money?
>
> That's pretty much the way things work. The ironic thing about it is
> that the businessmen who do that preach about free enterprise and the
> need for competition to make operations things efficient and keep prices
> down. Then they buy up the competition to keep their prices high.

y'all didn't tell me that *modern bride* also bit the dust in this
bloodletting. that's a real blow.

your pal,
blake