The Last Thing
Editorial
by Dave Watkins
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My appeal for articles in last issue produced some excellent responses - keep them coming! Some of you will be disappointed not to have made this issue, the big 60, but space precludes and a couple of those submitted either needed extensive editing or a lot map work doing which excluded them form this issue because of time constraints. Cost Increase From this issue First Empire is going to £4.00 per issue. Cost are increasing all round and I don’t want FE to go the same way as one of its American rivals has just done. We cannot afford to be dependant on distributors for our income as the recent US case has proved this is a recipe for disaster! Ideally I would like First Empire to become financially independent of all advertising and distribution. We will still take adverts and use distributors, but I am going to have to keep increasing the price until sales increase to the level where I don’t have to dip into my own pocket to keep things afloat or have to wait nervously on whether or not some one will pay their bill on time. So what is the message of this tale. Simple really - use it or lose it, get your friends to subscribe, get your enemies to subscribe. Don’t lend your copy out - tell the tight git to buy his own! Remember, you are reading the only Napoleonic History and gaming magazine, that has been produced consistently for 10 years, has never stopped production, re-launched under another name or varied the publication frequency - if we say you get 6 in a year you get 6 in a year! Where we lead others try to follow, but all of this has only been achieved because of the support we get from our readers. For which I thank you all. Back to Table of Contents -- First Empire #60 Back to First Empire List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by First Empire. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com |
Seeing as how current English weather is hotter than Hawaii, I thought the front cover picture for this issue - The Battle of The Pyramids (21.7.1798) by Lejeune was most appropriate!