The funny/interesting thing is the hierarchy of payment. When a run of an issue is done the printer is obviously paid and after all the issues are sold the first cut goes to the publisher, distribution people etc. The newsagent only pays for what he sells. Hence the cutting off of the title of the front page which are sent back to the publisher as unsold stock and not paid for by the newsagent. The remaining money from the “sold” issues , if any, was divided up between the writers via some sort of system where regular writers were higher on the pecking order. This probably varies for bigger mags but our tutor, a former magazine editor said you would be surprised how many writers for big publications never saw a razoo.
Australians were the biggest users, per head of population, in the world for magazines but unfortunately the internet changed all that. Just like free news, free advice and hobby info, as on this forum, are posted multiple times a minute and payed publications have to come up with something special to compete with that. I usually buy a CH only if in going away for a few days but last Xmas daughter number one gave me an online subscription for Xmas. I like the cruising stories and ‘how to’ stuff but the bigger more expensive yacht articles are just too far out of my existence to be of use. It is a heck of a job to be all things to all sailors I suppose and they have done their best. YouTube has also made massive inroads into magazine popularity.
I did compose a few articles to submit for publication years ago but after second thoughts I was not interested in having the “happy folk” on certain sites tear my articles apart online. A few bits of those articles finished up as part of long posts on here for my fellow Investigators. I’ll dig out a few leftovers and post them over the break.
Anyway in the meantime if anyone’s children are rich and want to buy their parents their own sailing magazine to publish for Xmas here’s your big opportunity
