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[quote]QUOTE: Originally posted by CNJ831 [And then again, maybe not! MR's circulation has declined steadily for a full decade now. Something like 50,000 former readers (20% of the total circulation) have decided that MR just doesn't have what it takes any more. And since the purchase price was coming out of their pockets, it looks to me that it's the readership that knows what it wants a whole lot better than the magazine's folks apparently do! CNJ831 [/quote] There was quite a discussion on the Atlas Forum recently about the decline in magazine subscriptions. One poster had info on all of the model railroad magazines and others - they've all lost sales in the past while. These include MR, RMC, RMJ, MRG, etc. This fact was brought home to me just recently when I got a check from Model Railroading (MRG) for an article I had in their March 2005 issue. I haven't made any submissions for several years, and used to get paid $80.00 per page. For this current acceptance, all they paid was $60.00 a page. When I inquired why the drop in payment, I was told because of the drop in readership. I think it was shown on the Atlas Forum their circulation dropped from under 20K to around 10K today. Wonder if MR still pays what they used to? So it appears there is an overall drop in many magazine's readership, probably due to the Internet. Everyone who follows hobby forums knows all about new releases way before they appear in print. Magazines used to have a three month lead time - anything in the current issue was prepared three months before. This is ages in the world of computing and the Internet. At one time magazines were probably the main source for modelers' news, now they are secondary. Bob Boudreau Bob Boudreau
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