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In Reply to: RE: You may well be a FANTASTIC editor... posted by John Atkinson on September 04, 2015 at 08:00:47
that this was how it was at Stereophile."The thread was about subscription and circulation practices and yes, it was about Stereophile and no, subscription and circulation issues generally to not fall under the responsibilities of the editor.
And I wasn't responding to YOU, I was responding to those who seem to not understand that you are NOT responsible for your publisher's decisions on who is contracted to handle subscriptions and circulation.
But I could be wrong.
But you are NOT the only Editor in the world and further, Stereophile is NOT the only publication.
And unless your publication is different from most, and it may be, you have little or no control over who your publisher uses to manage circulation.
Best leave circulation to your publisher lest the publisher may decide to be more involved in the editorial side. :-)
Edits: 09/08/15Follow Ups:
There are two prominent print magazines in the US that cover high-performance audio. They obviously have different journalistic and ethical standards. They also have different circulation numbers.
I would submit that all of the information we have strongly supports John Crabbe's statement quoted by JA.
what has John Crabbe and what he said to do with the subscription issue being discussed?
What does "pay to play" have to do with the origin of the thread?
but the subject of this thread is not editorial standards it's division of authority in publishing in general.
For good or ill, the editor works for the publisher in most if not all cases and circulation and subscriptions (the subject of this thread) tend to fall under the authority of the publisher, NOT the editor.
In most cases, the Publisher is simply given a policy which has been drafted by those many tiers above him.
Most individual magazines are a small cog in a large group, and such is true of Stereophile-- that's recognition of the realities of business structure, not a diminution of the high regard in which I hold John and Stereophile.
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