Re: Happy "Dennis the Menace" Day

On Fri, 14 Mar 2025 11:23 +0000 (GMT Standard Time),
prd@pauldormer.cix.co.uk (Paul Dormer) wrote:

In article <vqv9o0$3na1u$1@dont-email.me>, petertrei@gmail.com
(Cryptoengineer) wrote:
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Its normal for periodicals to carry the date they should be removed
from
the dealer, rather than the date they arrived.

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I don't think that's the case in the UK.
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For instance, New Scientist has a cover date of Saturday.  I received the
latest issue yesterday,  The cover date is the 15th.  It will still be on
display in news agents for most of next week.
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I've heard American visitors asking why old magazines are still on
display.  I remember when I started reading Analog back in the late
sixties, early seventies, before I subscribed.  Railway station
bookstalls were a good place to find it.  On one occasion, as I was
paying at the counter the assistant said they'd actually got it in early
this month.  What she meant was that the month on the cover was actually
the current month on the calendar.

IIRC, at least one publisher of one of the magazines I subscribed to
at the time stated that, if the cover date wasn't a month or two later
than the month the issue was published, people would not buy it
because it was "old".

Currently, that applies to the two military history magazines
(possibly because they are sold in retail stores as well as by
subscription), but the two that apparently are subscription-only (and
would, no doubt, prefer to drop their print copies for their
website/PDF versions) use the current month (or months in the case of
the bimonthly one) or come at the end of the month before the date on
the cover.
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