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<p>[quote user="carl425"]</p> <p> </p> <div class="quote-header"> </div> <blockquote class="quote"> <div class="quote-user">Sir Madog</div> <div class="quote-content">If you think MR needs more content, well, pick up your pen and write an article!</div> </blockquote> <div class="quote-footer"> </div> <p> </p> <p>That old cop out always comes up.  You ignore the point that I as a subscriber <span style="text-decoration:underline;">pay</span> for content.  If I wanted to write it myself, why would I pay for the magazine?</p> <div style="clear:both;"> </div> <p>[/quote]</p> <p><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">"If we can use your article, we'll send you a contract to purchase the article and we will pay once we have received a signed copy of the contract rather than waiting until the article actually appears in </span><em style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Model Railroader</em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">. Our rate is between $75 and $100 per printed page in </span><em style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Model Railroader</em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:14px;">, depending on the content expertise. That rate includes drawings and photos. Our standard acceptance agreement specifies that Kalmbach Publishing Co. is buying all rights to publish the article. Contact us to arrange a different rights contract."</span></p> <p><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><a href="http://mrr.trains.com/magazine/about-us/contributor-guidelines/2010/03/submission-guidelines---model-railroader">http://mrr.trains.com/magazine/about-us/contributor-guidelines/2010/03/submission-guidelines---model-railroader</a></span></span></p> <p>[quote user="Steven Otte"]BMMECNYC Fast forward to 2016.  You are the editor of a magazine.  You want to celebrate the 1,000th issue of your magazine that has been a cornerstone of a hobby for the better part of a century.  Your staff must work continuously to make deadlines for each months article so that it can go to press.  If you increase the size of the magazine one month, other things have to give (article quality or number of articles in months that bracket that extra long month) to conteract that a lot of time was spent putting together the special edition.    Not quite. Magazine size isn't determined by staff man-hours available. If that were the case, we could fill 20 pages with double-page-spread photos and knock off early each Friday. binder001 is closer to the truth. We allocate a certain number of pages for editorial in every issue. What makes a magazine thicker or thinner is ad count. If we have a lot of ads, that not only gives us more pages, it gives us the revenue to add more pages of editorial content as well. But we never drop below that minimum level of editorial content. And although our 1,000th issue did draw more ads than the usual because of the special nature of the issue, most of the extra pages in that issue were editorial -- which is why we needed to charge more for it on the newsstand. The extra ads weren't enough to pay for the extra editorial pages. Spring issues traditionally tend to be thinner, because advertisers concentrate their ad buys around the winter holidays and on the autumn-winter model railroading "season" in general. Come spring and summer, they pare back their ad buys, so MR slims down. That happens every year. You're only noticing the size of this May's issue because it's such a contrast to the extra bulk of the April special issue.[/quote]</p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:14px;">Thank you for responding.</span></span></p>
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