Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/08/07

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Photo Magazines
From: Edward Meyers <aghalide@panix.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 21:02:12 -0400 (EDT)

To save money the actual publication size is reduced. Thousands of
dollars saved on a 400,000 circulation (15 years ago Pop had
a circ of 950,000 per month). Ed

On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> Rich Lahrson wrote:
> > 
> > > Me too! It was Pop Photo that got me into it. Loved their annuals. Just bought
> > > the 1957 annual this month. Cora Wright-Kennedy, Bill Pierce and all the others
> > > I always read them. And I loved the Gravure!
> > > Mark Rabiner
> > 
> > Hi Mark,
> > 
> >      Same here, I had a 'script to Pop Photo from about '60 to '63.  I
> > look at the current mag in the library occasionally; it's not the same.
> 
> This month it and lots of other magazines and it could not have just been
> Murdock shrank to a puny size. The beginning of the end of pulp magazine
> publishing if you ask me.
> Once they shrink they kinda stink!
> Too small for my thumbs to flip though!
> mark rabiner
> 

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