Video: Tips on Tape

Cassette magazines arrive

The advantages are obvious. No staples, no paper. The merry mailman cannot mangle the thing in your letter slot and twist it into some kind of soft-cover Calder. There may be other benefits as well. Fast information. Ease of illustration. Graphic impact. "Video is the new printing press," Publishing Entrepreneur Nicolas Charney likes to say, but it is not necessary to bury Gutenberg to appreciate the possibilities of magazines on video and to spot, in five new entries, the beginnings of what seems to be a trend.

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