Computor Companion is a free computer magazine targeted toward business owners/managers, computer professionals, and home PC computer users.
Information about Computor Companion
Computor Companion is a computer magazine that is edited to instruct, inform, and entertain beginning to intermediate computer users. The goal of the magazine is to help readers use their computers more effectively to accomplish everyday tasks. Its emphasis is to provide computer information easy to understand manner.
Because of the easy to read style, Computor Companion appeals to a broad audience of both business and home computer users.
Computor Companion History
Computor Companion is produced by Logical Expressions, Inc., a company that in addition to publishing a magazine also produces custom business software for Microsoft Windows and the Web (this site is an example of LEI programming in action). Our area of the world, the Inland Northwest, is technologically behind many areas of the U.S. largely because of low wages and a past reliance on a resource-based economy. When we lived in San Diego there was (and still is) a computer magazine that we really enjoyed called Computor Edge. Figuring that this area needed the level of free education that San Diego needed circa 1989, we created a similar computer magazine called Computor Companion.
We produced the magazine locally from September 1999 to May 2001. It was distributed free in grocery stores, bookstores, computer stores and various other locations because we wanted the information to be free and easily accessible. In our experience, it seems like many of the people who need help the most are the ones who can't afford paying money for books and/or have trouble finding anything useful on line (sometimes they can't even GET on line).
What we found is that readers LOVE the magazine. We constantly get feedback about how helpful people find the information. The magazine clearly met a serious local demand for decent computer information. However, after much soul-searching, we decided that we should return to our core strengths. Selling advertising has never been even a little bit fun for us, so we decided to syndicate the content to newspapers and other businesses who need or want to help educate people on computing topics.
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