Confused...

Just out of curiousity: Could someone with an archive of ME please check ...

1990 Vol. 164 Issue 3872 Page 519

Editor: Model Engineers' Workshop - A New Magazine

Thanks

MichaelG.

David Clarke has made comments about publishing policy/readership attitudes from time to time. From these it's fairly easy to see how the present position has evolved. Among the points made are:

(1) In the first instance it's the author who decides where an article judged suitable for publication appears. If someone who's a longtime subscriber to ME knocks out a toolmaking article it will be perfectly natural for him to choose ME as the channel.

(2) Reader surveys and letter page reactions have shown emphatically that MEW readers don't want model-making articles appearing there so:

"running what could become two similar magazines"

— just isn't going to happen in terms of model-making bleeding into MEW.

(3) Curiously, readership surveys have also shown that MEW readers don't like protracted multi-part series. So that creates an opening for ME to publish the more ambitious machine-making projects. Thus, something like a latterday Quorn project would be a better fit for ME than MEW.

Simplifying:

(a) both model making and toolmaking articles may appear in ME depending on author preference or series length,

(b) model making articles will only appear in ME.

Joe

Edited By joegib on 13/01/2014 04:06:07

And yet ......

Is there a punchline?

Joe

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The obvious punchline would be ... there are so many in MEW.

More detailed answers may be available; but that would require a protracted multi-part series, not an implicit punchline.

OK, the long version:

Amongst other things, you referred to two results of MEW reader surveys and comments:

- MEW readers don't want model-making articles appearing there

- MEW readers don't like protracted multi-part series

.... and yet, the second doesn't seem to have made much difference - which provides a context for judging the first.

rotfl !