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| Editor | Rob Mead-Green |
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| Categories | Computing / Mac |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Circulation | 25,909 |
| First issue | June 1993 |
| Company | Future plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Based in | Bath, Somerset |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 0968-3305 |
MacFormat is the UK's biggest computer magazine aimed at Macintosh users. It published 13 issues per year. It is published by Future plc, and has been since 1993. [1]
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Planet PC was a British PC gaming magazine aimed at pre-teens, first published in December 1999. It was issued monthly by Future plc in Bath, Somerset, and was backed by a marketing budget of £50 thousand. Similar magazines published by Future included PC Format, for which Planet PC was hoped to be a feeder. Planet PC cost £2.95 per issue, with its target market being eight-to-twelve-year-old male PC users. During the year 2000, the magazine had a circulation of 20,181. Its editor was David Bradley, its associate editor was Chris James, and its publisher was James Binns. In October 1999, two months before the release of the first issue, Binns explained that Planet PC would fill a gap seen as "too old and ... too expensive for [the] younger market".
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