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Re: [GWL]: Organic-Style/OG-Why?

There were in excess of one million paid subs during the '70s and even into the early '80s; the 80s was when the decline started. I recall a figure of 1.3 million about '80 but my memory is becoming slightly untrustworthy as I approach 60 myself.

Steve Solomon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
To: <Gardenwriters@topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 2:23 AM
Subject: RE: [GWL]: Organic-Style/OG-Why?


> OG never had more than 650,000 true organic gardening subscribers.  When
> their numbers jumped to over a million it was from being part of publisher's
> clearing house.  Almost all those stayed on for just a year and split.  I
> don't know what their totals were in the past few years, but I'm sure they
> were lower than 650,000.
> They should be sending a review copy of OG to all garden writers.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carol Deppe [c*@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 07, 2001 11:48 AM
> To: Gardenwriters@topica.com
> Subject: [GWL]: Organic-Style/OG-Why?
> 
> Does anyone know why Rodale dumped Organic Gardening?  Was it losing
> money?
> 
> I can see why Rodale added Organic Style, a woman's lifestyle magazine,
> to their repertoire.  It's an obvious direction for Rodale, and there
> are probably lots more people who care vaguely about organic/green
> issues than organic gardeners.  Whether they feel they need to buy a
> magazine in order to care vaguely about organic/green issues, of course,
> remains to be seen.
> 
> Meanwhile, there were nearly a million of us gardeners who WERE willing
> to buy Organic Gardening.  Some of us had been doing so for decades.
> 
> Was Organic Gardening losing money?  I realize that they had lost
> subscribers from their high of more than a million a few years ago.
> However, Organic Gardening was published for decades before that high of
> more than a million.  Does anybody know the story here?
> 
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