Re: another garden magazine ceases

**fran gustman f*@juno.com**

I think it is because the best garden magazines are those that are very
specific to an area or to a topic. You can't be all things to every
gardener, unlike a wrestling magazine. So the ones that are specific
necessarily have a much smaller base of readership.

Fran

Fran Gustman,  fgustman@juno.com
Editor, HortResources Newsletter
Editor, Wild Ones Journal,  www.for-wild.org
Boston, MA

> > Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 23:09:37 -0500
> > From: Duane Campbell <dcamp911@juno.com>
> > 
> [snip]
> >
> > 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. 
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