Here ’s what passes for good news in the world of print skill - fiction magazine publisher : the “ heavy three ” magazines only saw circulation decline in the low single finger in 2008 , compared with threefold - digit declines in recent years .
Warren Ellissearched through the raw variation ofGardner Dozois ‘ latestYear ’s Best Science Fictionvolume , and base the previous ominous word for the vainglorious science fabrication print mags . Analog Science Fiction And Factlost 1,400 readers , or about 5.1 pct , falling to just under 26,000 copies of each issue in circulation . Asimov ’s Science Fictionand The Magazine Of Fantasy & Science Fiction both find drops of 2.7 pct each , to around 17,000 copies and 16,044 transcript respectively .
These are actually passably gentle declines , compare to previous years . According to Ellis , Asimov ’s lost 5.2 percent of its circulation in 2007 , 13.6 percentage in 2006 and 23 per centum in 2005 . Thelast prison term we reported on circulation identification number , F&SF had come across an 11.2 percent drop , to around 16,489 . ( That was only six month ago though . )
https://gizmodo.com/the-slow-motion-death-of-the-pulps-5093442
As we pointed out last clip , back in 2004 , F&SF had a paid circulation of around 20,000 copy , while Asimov ’s was at around 30,000 copy and Analog was at around 40,000 copies .
So it ’s not just an ongoing corrasion — there was a fairly outrageous nose dive , which has now even out off somewhat . Does this signify we ’ve hit a kind of level , for now anyway ? Are there rough 16,000 die - hard science fiction buff who will always grease one’s palms F&SF and Asimov ’s , no matter what ? And another 10,000 who ’ll also pick up Analog ? Or is this just a abbreviated tableland before the next dive ?
I ’m actually fair pessimistic : moves likeF&SF pass away bimonthlyare bound to decrease the visibility of these mag on the newsstand , and a deal of the most exciting inadequate fable in mark seems to be crop up in theme anthologies lately . The newsstand digest data format , itself , sense a bit like a keepsake , and cartridge distribution is only go to get more and more roughshod , as a business organization . I ’m not sure what a magazine would have to do to get 40,000 transcript in circulation , these mean solar day , but I suspect it would postulate new distribution channels , like amusing - book entrepot and coffee shop . [ Warren Ellis ]
https://gizmodo.com/is-short-science-fiction-moving-to-original-anthologies-5124848
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