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Originally Posted by salty-horse
The issue is available at the start of the month, but its content is made available online throughout the month.
For example, the last story of the September 2024 issue says "Publishes Online on 9/26".
Amazon used to have a digital magazine subscription service, and most of the SFF magazines relied on it for survival, as this was the main source of subscriptions.
When they stopped the service, they had to scramble to regain those lost subscribers. It was especially hard because Amazon didn't share the subscriber info with the magazines other than a number, and didn't tell subscribers where to go to renew it.
Neil Clarke (Clarkesworld) describes it here (one of many editorials on this topic), and here's a report from The Verge that also mentions Fantasy Magazine has closed down, partly due to this change.
EDIT to add:
This change happened around the same time when magazines started getting many AI-generated submissions, making their job even harder. |
Yeah, I was aware of Amazon discontinuing their digital magazine subscription service, but I thought that was 2-3 years ago?
Thank you for the information.
