Editor/Publisher Gordon Van Gelder, on the magazine’s blog, has announced that, starting with the April/May 2009 issue, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction will change its publication schedule to once every other month. Each issue will be 256 pages, except for this year’s anniversary issue, which “will be a jumbo.”
“Subscribers don’t need to take any action. If your current subscription expires with the April 2009 issue or with the May 2009 issue, your subscription now expires with the April/May 2009 issue.”
Van Gelder explains, “We’ve made the change because rising costs—especially postal costs—and the current economy put us in a position where we either had to raise our rates severely or cut back somewhere. Given the state of the economy, I decided a cutback in frequency made the most sense. We’ll lose a little more than 10% of our content this year, but we should be in a great position for the coming years.
“I know it’s a big change and it will take a little while to get used to it, but I think it will work out fine. Thank you all for your support.”