BGM makes a house call

[fleabag]

Just got an email from John East - BGM is going to make a visit to John's workshop in this months issue ( or is it next month's ? )

BGM will be finding out what just what a genius and genuine good guy he is. Makes good tea & toast too

Seems Shuker is going to be a feature as well



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[Silvia Bluejay]

That's the December issue, the current one - in fact, better hurry if you want to buy a copy, as the January issue is almost ready for publication.

[fleabag]

Thanks blue - sometimes publications come out the following month .... eg December issue comes out in January. Or vice versa

[Silvia Bluejay]

Yup, unfortunately. BGM is OK, though - it usually hits the shelves (or the mailboxes) at the end of the month preceding the cover date, which means it shows the correct month during most of its shelf life.

[TrevorR]

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Thanks blue - sometimes publications come out the following month .... eg December issue comes out in January. Or vice versa
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That's very rare. As Bluejay says almost all commercial mags will never date a magazine so that it looks out of date while on the shelves. The casual purchaser is likely to be put off buying because they will subconsciously presume that the content of the magazine is now old/out of date/defunct... Even despite that fact that most content isn't anywhere near that time critical.

If a magazines shelf life is 15 November to 14 December it'll almost always be called a December issue. Or even in some cases January - I recall a period where Guitarist was about two months ahead in their cover date. I think that they threw in a "Winter" issue to get them back on track a month ahead or something. There was a debate on this very same topic on the late lamented Word magazine forum. Dave Hepworth gave some really interesting insights on the psychology that publishing houses take into account on little things like magazine cover dates.

[Silvia Bluejay]

Computer magazines used to be notorious for publishing their December or Christmas issues at the beginning of October, and similar misdeeds. I think they're run with a slightly more sensible schedule now.

[CamdenRob]

I think my subscription might have run out

Mrs C bought it for me last year...