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wouldn't have done it if (1) I didn't think this move was best for F&SF and (2) I was making F&SF utterly unavailable to you. But the magazine remains available in two wide-reaching formats---print and Kindle.
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It's only necessary to look at the paid circulation figures (down by over 7,000 in the past nine years, to just over 15,000 now) to see that something had to be done to save the magazine. It's already gone to bi-monthly publishing to save costs.
I'm not wonderfully pleased by the decision to go to an Amazon exclusive, and even less pleased that the transition has been so awkward (cutting of Fictionwise before Amazon distribution was ready).
Hopefully Amazon's incentives will be enough to help get circulation an upward path again. A few thousand Kindle subscriptions would make a big difference to the income of the magazine.
Let's hope it's the right decision.