WizarDru
Adventurer
I just noticed this article on Sci-Fi Wire (echoed at SciFi Weekly) indicating that Amazing Stories is being cancelled and Undefeated might also be? The Paizo forums indicate that no one is in the office over the holidays...but has anyone heard anything about this? I just signed up for an Amazing subscription two weeks ago, when I reupped my Dragon subscription. And I really like Undefeated, being the only gamer-centric boardgame magazine that I know of. Has this been discussed prior to this? I didn't see anything about it on gamingreport.com, either. How can something be cancelled for being "Unexpectedly successful"?
Here's the meat of it:
Amazing Stories Goes On Hiatus
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eff Berkwits, editor-in-chief of the reinvented Amazing Stories magazine, denied to SCI FI Wire Internet rumors that it has closed after starting back up in September, but admitted that the monthly magazine will take a break from publishing. "Amazing Stories has not been shut down," Berkwits said in an interview. "It is going on hiatus. The next issue that will be coming out will be number 608, which has a street date of Jan. 4. That one will be coming out as scheduled and as planned. Beyond that, things are somewhat up in the air."
Rumors are circulating on the Web that Paizo Publishing has ceased publication of Amazing Stories, which was first published in 1926 and was resurrected this year as a broad-based entertainment publication featuring a mix of fiction and reviews and previews of movies, TV, DVDs, books, comics and story-driven electronic games, as well as interviews with the creators of these stories. Paizo, which also publishes the special-interest gaming and entertainment magazines Dragon, Dungeon and Undefeated, appointed Berkwits, a journalist and SF writer, to the position of editor-in-chief at Amazing Stories in October; the upcoming January magazine is his first.
"Part of what's happened is that the magazine ... has been, ... and I don't know how else to say it, unexpectedly successful," Berkwits said. "And there have been some other opportunities that have come up that the publisher is exploring that would allow us to potentially expand and improve upon the magazine. So rather than move ahead at this point, the publisher has opted to go into what will hopefully be a very brief hiatus and move ahead from there." Berkwits said that the upcoming 82-page issue, with Jennifer Garner on the cover, would be the last for a while. Amazing Stories currently employs Berkwits and associate editor Vic Wertz as its only permanent staff, Berkwits said.
"There are ... plans for future issues sort of in the works," Berkwits said. "But we just had to take kind of a breather at this point. I would say by mid to late January, there should be a much better idea of where things are going and what is happening."
Berkwits was not aware of plans for Undefeated, a gaming magazine that is also rumored to be closing. Officials at Paizo did not return calls."[/font]
Here's the meat of it:
Amazing Stories Goes On Hiatus
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Rumors are circulating on the Web that Paizo Publishing has ceased publication of Amazing Stories, which was first published in 1926 and was resurrected this year as a broad-based entertainment publication featuring a mix of fiction and reviews and previews of movies, TV, DVDs, books, comics and story-driven electronic games, as well as interviews with the creators of these stories. Paizo, which also publishes the special-interest gaming and entertainment magazines Dragon, Dungeon and Undefeated, appointed Berkwits, a journalist and SF writer, to the position of editor-in-chief at Amazing Stories in October; the upcoming January magazine is his first.
"Part of what's happened is that the magazine ... has been, ... and I don't know how else to say it, unexpectedly successful," Berkwits said. "And there have been some other opportunities that have come up that the publisher is exploring that would allow us to potentially expand and improve upon the magazine. So rather than move ahead at this point, the publisher has opted to go into what will hopefully be a very brief hiatus and move ahead from there." Berkwits said that the upcoming 82-page issue, with Jennifer Garner on the cover, would be the last for a while. Amazing Stories currently employs Berkwits and associate editor Vic Wertz as its only permanent staff, Berkwits said.
"There are ... plans for future issues sort of in the works," Berkwits said. "But we just had to take kind of a breather at this point. I would say by mid to late January, there should be a much better idea of where things are going and what is happening."
Berkwits was not aware of plans for Undefeated, a gaming magazine that is also rumored to be closing. Officials at Paizo did not return calls."[/font]