Totally dumb Q?

[Rene Schweitzer]

I thought we were monthly (er, daily?) on this forum already! [:p][:p]

[Anonymous]

MORE IMPORTANTLY, When is Garden Railroads going to go Monthly??????

Marc and Rene[?]

[Anonymous]

I thought that a lot of the people in publishing were gay and therefor they wouldn't know what month it was.

Ian

PS Australians get there irreverence from the Irish in us all.

[Marty Cozad]

Thank you
Mr Thompson for stopping by and saying HI to us. Your answer is as clear as mud.. I knew there had too be a good reason and we do live in the Good Ol USA which does alot of things different from the rest of the world.
And thanks Gary , It was one of many photo tries.
BTY: I did send couple of photos to M.R. photo contest, be neat to have GRRing get into their contest.
This dating thing is kinda like all the new "preproduction", pre order NOW. Its seems to be the HOT thing now.
Thanks RENE
[;)]

[MRTerry]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention, Rene. The answer has to do with how newsstands and bookstores keep track of their stock. They use the date on the cover as a kind of expiration date, so if a monthly magazine says "January 2005" on the cover they'll remove it from their shelves in the beginning of January 2005. The only exceptions are special issues like Kalmbach's "Great Model Railroads," which usually have a "sell until" date on their covers, and bi-monthly magazines, which usually remain on sale through the month of their cover date.
It's a strange way to do business, I admit, and it makes our lives more complicated as well. Right now, for example, most of our staffs are working on their February or March issues, which go to the printer in late November or early December and go on sale in January. Clear as mud, right? However, it's standard in the publishing industry, and thus it's nothing that we can change.
Thanks for reading GR,
Terry

[Rene Schweitzer]

Hi guys,

When GR first started, it had two months listed on the cover. Shortly after Kalmbach bought the publication, they eliminated one of the months, so now we have Feb-April-June-August-Oct-Dec issues.

As for the early publication schedule and release date, I honestly don't have an answer for you. For a bi-monthly magazine such as GR, the December issue will go on sale Nov. 9 and will remain on sale until early January. Monthlies such as MR are only on sale four weeks.

I'm going to email our Associate publisher, Terry Thompson, and ask him to reply to this. Perhaps he knows more than I do.

Rene

[Anonymous]

I can't speak for GR because I haven't paid attention, but some of my car mags actually send 13 issues a year, I think it's $ reasons. However GR is one of the few I've noticed that doesn't due the October/November type of thing only one month is called out on the cover of GR.

[Gary Crawley]

Marty
A lot of other Mags do the same thing but I don't know why.
Congratulations on your First Place winning photo in the 2004 Garden Railway contest,
your composition and execution are very proffesional.
Once again congratulations
Regards
Gary

[vsmith]

Well Marty, Barry says "there are no dumb questions" but this is a good one,

How about it Rene?

[Marty Cozad]

Rene
Why does magizines come out a month earilier than they say? Why does Dec issue come out in Nov? Shouldn't that be called ,,Nov issue?? Or is it just by monthly.
Something i've always wanted to ask.[:I]