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warrenellis.com - 6/25/2009
SF MAGAZINES: It’s That Time Of Year Again
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Come on. It’s a tradition now, right? Gardner Dozois releases a new YEAR’S BEST SCIENCE FICTION containing his Summation of the doings of the year, and I pull out the sf magazine circulation numbers from it and depress everybody. (Cue blog posts beginning "Warren Ellis makes ...

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io9:  Has The Print Magazine Circulation Crash Started To Level Off? [Publishing]

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Has The Print Magazine Circulation Crash Started To Level Off? [Publishing]
io9 — ... of these magazines on the newsstand, and a lot of the most exciting short fiction in print seems to be cropping up in themed anthologies lately. The newsstand digest format, itself, feels a bit like a relic, and magazine distribution is only going to get more and more brutal, as a business. I'm not sure what a magazine would have to do to get 40,000 copies in circulation, these days, but I suspect it would involve new distribution channels, like comic-book stores and coffee shops. [Warren Ellis] ...

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