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Monthly Magazines
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My question is why are monthly magazines not released on the month that they are for? an example is a November issue of a magazine maybe comes out the last week of October instead of coming out the first week of November.Can anyone plz help?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Easy - to give it a longer shelf life. Its now November 20th and I go into WH Smith because I want to buy a widget and I don't know anything about them so I'll see if WH Smith has 'What Widget' magazine. Oh yes it does, and its November's issue, so I pay over my �3.95, not realising that the brand new issue of 'What Widget' (this case the December one) usually comes out on the 15th and is delayed.
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So ny giving the issue the name of the following month thay make the magazine appear to be current for 6 weeks.
It probably started by one magazine trying to gain an advantage over its rivals by publishing a couple of days earlier, then another one did it and so on. I subscribe to PC Plus, and receive the magazine much sooner than when it appears in the shops. The slightly barmy scenario is that I received December's issue around October 10th., and I have since received another "Xmas" issue around the beginning of November. I expect January's will thud onto my doormat any time in the next couple of weeks!