SFScope reports that F/SF distributor Anderson News is having revenue issues. To compensate, they wanted to add a 7c surcharge on all magazine sales. Many magazines, including Gordon Van Gelder’s F&SF refused to pay, so Anderson has now suspended all operations.
The publishing industry is getting hit hard, and pro sci-fi magazines, already ailing in good times, are now having to face set back after set back. If a venture is struggling when the economy is rosy, I fear for it when the economy is in recession. I love the magazine and would love to be published in it (it was after all, the magazine that published The Gunslinger before it was a book by stephen king), but at this point I fear it might not be around long enough for me to break through.