You Spoke, They Listened!
November 18, 2006
For the past several issues, I’ve been extremely disappointed with Bead Style magazine – the number of projects has been declining in both quality and quantity – and I’d decided to discontinue my subscription. I wasn’t alone, I’d read and received feedback from beaders across the world expressing their displeasure with the turn the magazine was taking.
Catching up on emails this evening, I was encouraged to read a note from the editor of Bead Style, via their email newsletter.
Though I usually have so much fun with the magazine I have to remind myself periodically that it’s a job and that, the truth is, publishing is a business.
You see, BeadStyle has been going through some growing pains this year. Because of the enthusiastic reception you have consistently given the magazine, it has become more and more attractive to advertisers.
And that’s a good thing. Naturally, we’re thrilled by the support of each advertiser.
The cloud with this silver lining is that, with the fewer pages allotted to editorial, it has become a challenge to keep the project count where it should be. You’ve noticed and, believe me, we’ve noticed.
The good news is that the people in charge of giving us more pages have noticed, too. So, as of the March 2007 issue, we’ll have eight more pages. We’re really excited.
So, thanks to those who expressed concern. Your letters and e-mails definitely helped us get the extra space. I promise we’ll use them well.
Stay tuned….Bead Style used to be a good magazine for beginning to intermediate stringers who wanted to expand their skills a bit, and I’d like to see it return back to the status that it was when I wrote the review on Beading Help Web.
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I thought the same exact thing when I read this! ABSOLUTELY marvelous. EIGHT more pages! But what if advertisers want to take those too, lol! I’m thinking they’ll be reserved for projects.
EIGHT pages! I’m thinking one 3 page project, two two page projects, and one one page project. Just a guess at some of the potential amount of projects that could be in there. Although it depends how much of the page is project, and how much is ad (like if the second and third pages of each project are 1/3 project, and 2/3 ad, that basically increases the ad pages in the mag, too.)
Guess we’ll see how they handle that.
I also want them to take out the Austin Hamilton ads. I realize that the current ads were probably set in stone before they heard back from readers on it, but any issues after the first of the year had better be AH free.