Re: another garden magazine ceases

**Duane Campbell d*@juno.com**

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 17:34:34 -0600 "Jeff Lowenfels" <jeff@gardener.com>
writes:

> Is it the internet? Publisher's attitudes? Changing habits or 
> changed
> habits.....on the other hand, it has always been touch and go for 
> gardening
> mags from Flower and Garden (bless Ted Marston) 

Bless him indeed, but I believe that was Porch and Garden, one of the
finest mags to ever hit, and miss, the stands.

I have for years pondered the question you bring up. I ponder a lot at
this hour of the night. Why do gardening magazines have trouble
surviving? Or perhaps, why are there no "good" -- whatever that might
mean -- gardening magazines, good enough to survive. I peruse the local
news stand and find six mags on professional wrestling and twice that on
stock car racing, but there are more gardeners in this area than
wrestling or stock car fans. And I don't think you can make the argument
that wrestling and stock car fans are avid readers while gardeners are
not.

I have some thoughts on this, but like many of my thoughts, they come
from ignorance. I've never been in the magazine business. I don't even
like to submit to magazines. I prefer newspapers, where the harried
editor grabs my copy, waves it over his head, and yells, "COPY BOY,
twelve column inches for page 12," and never even bothers to pull his pen
out.

Are there some people in that trade on the list? Would you be willing to
share your thoughts on why gardening magazines tend to be disadvantaged?

D

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