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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kaparthy, post: 1200, member: 57463&quot;]<b>Back and Forth, Back and Forth</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Ric Burney wrote:</p><p>&quot;I can&#039;t agree on this one. 100 pages as opposed to 65 pages. Coin World seems to have way more ads than NN that take up alot of it&#039;s 100 pages.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>US Postal regulations define how much advertising and how much content a publication can have to be called a &quot;newspaper&quot; for 2nd Class Privileges.&nbsp; If you actually measure the column inches, I think you will find that they average over three issues pretty much the same.&nbsp; If CW has more ads, it is because vendors find the CW market more profitable.&nbsp; Also, for me, advertising <u><b>is</b></u> content.&nbsp; And you are yourself speaking highly of the classified ads in NN that you do not find in CW.</p><p><br /></p><p>Myself, when I entered the hobby in 1995, I subscribed to NN because I found it much friendlier than CW which I found intimidating in its depth and range of presentation.&nbsp; I like people more than I like coins, also.&nbsp; So, I definitely understand the attraction that NN has for its 30,000 readers.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ric Burney wrote: &quot;...but you can&#039;t beat the articles by people such as Alan Herbert, who is a virtual walking library of numismatics.&quot;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Well, yes, indeed, we all are, are we not?&nbsp; Alan brought serious journalistic weight to NN.&nbsp; He was a newspaper guy and a radio reporter, also, if I recall his words correctly, before joining Krause and learning about collecting.&nbsp; That company library has served him well over the years.&nbsp; Believe me, I know.&nbsp; I used to spend unbroken hours in the Amos Library getting smart about the pattern coins of 1793 and the genesis of the 5-cent nickel and Paquet Patterns and all the rest. </p><p><br /></p><p>Ric Burney wrote: &quot;Coin World tends to pander to the world numismatic community more than Krause does...&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; Well CW is an all-in-one publication, whereas Krause has World Coins and Banknote Reporter for focus.&nbsp; CW is in fact mostly about American coins.&nbsp; They pay an outside accounting firm to run a reader survey every few years and most people who read CW collect American coins.&nbsp; It is a fact.&nbsp; That said, they do devote significant space to State Quarters, American Paper, world coins, and once a month to Ancients.&nbsp; Every week, there is the one &quot;International&quot; page and once a month that expands to three or four pages, the &quot;International&quot; section.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ric Burney wrote: &quot;if you collect mainly U.S. issues and like to trade with others who do also, you will find more resources in NN then CW. Lots more classifieds due to their free-bies in NN.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, when I first came into the hobby, I also patronized the NN classifieds and I ran my own for a year.&nbsp; It was a great learning experience for me.&nbsp; As I said in my first post, I feel that the Krause editorial staff has a better &quot;feel&quot; for the hobby because they participate in it: they buy and sell coins; they work closely with dealers and collectors; they never alienate the US Mint with scathing editorials.&nbsp; They are a great bunch of folks and it shows in their folksy newspaper.&nbsp; They have 30,000 loyal subscribers and no one cannot argue with that.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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