Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 47 — page 3: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

ERCEPTIVE readers will note this month that AUTHEN- TIC is no longer bigger than any other British science fic- tion magazine. While in the past we have been able to give you considerably more value than even magazines which cost more, we find that the! time has come for a bit of j retrenching. Magazine pub-: lishing in Britain is going through a somewhat difficult time—you will be aware that several old-established period- icals have actually had to go out of print. Whether this is caused by the new disease called tele- vision, as some say, I do not know. I am _ not terribly interested in its cause—only in its treatment. One simple way, of course, is to raise the HLCAMPBELL , OH a price. People are doing it all over the place. But I have never liked that solution. I’m ° sure you wouldn’t like it, either. So, we have cut the number of pages down so that AUTHENTIC is now no bigger (or smaller) than its contemporaries. That is not too bad, is it? I’m pretty certain that this will be a temporary measure, anyway. Maybe we shall be able to go back to our bumper size even as early as the Autumn. Maybe not. In all events you'll not be suffering greatly. It simply means that you'll have 5,000 words less to read. To balance this, the quality of the stories will be higher, for we are saving on paper and production, not on payment to authors. ie) ConmicwookssEom) *