STILL NO SIGNS OF OPEN THAILAND NO. 2
It's been six weeks since I first came across Open Thailand magazine, and sadly for the legions of fans eagerly anticipating a second issue none has yet appeared.
Open Thailand drew instant fame for its apparent use of 'Google Translate" for the English portion of its content. The July edition included such classics as: "From Local product basketwork accessories on page love looks like brother and brother bad brother cat parrot colored crystalline voice", and "Bangkok Oasis Spa a white house with a big black door to wait for you to discover."
Copies of the 60 baht magazine quickly sold out as word spread, but I did manage to find a single, lonely copy of the July edition on sale yesterday. Could this be the last one?
So it remains to be seen whether Open Thailand has closed? It remains to be seen if this self-dubbed 'in flight' magazine will ever make it to a second issue.
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And talking of old copies of magazines remaining on sale, the Bangkok Bugle noticed the February edition of one Thailand-based English language magazine still being sold yesterday at Kinokuniya. Publishers have often complained about the time it takes to get their magazine on sale, but at the same time this shows (a) a lack of monitoring by sales staff, (b) a lack of monitoring by the publishers to get this old edition off sale, and (c) the fact that even after seven months they still have two copies on sale.
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