He’s not wrong, but it’s been a decade since he wrote this and technology changes. The biggest change is that “webscriptions” isn’t a thing now. Figuring out sales for the magazine is a matter of how much effort you want to put into it. Eight years in, it would have been way more time and effort than it was worth to someone with a plate as full as Eric. Nearly three years in with the new magazine, going back to gather data any data we don’t already have for each issue is still doable, but it’s getting to be more work than I want to take on without a darn good reason. It’s no shock to say that most of the sales are in the first two months. They clearly continue after that, but for purposes of things like comparing how well issues are selling, that’s a reasonable cutoff. We don’t have the same exact distribution channels Eric lists, but it’s pretty close. Again, it’s no shock that most authors get most of their income from Amazon. We are in a unique position because we have a subscriber base as well, and that’s a huge help for us. (If you aren’t a subscriber yet, please consider it.) – Bethanne Kim (Publisher, Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond magazine) Baen’s Bar Question: What kind of audience does the 1632-verse have? How many people subscribe to the Gazette? How many individual copies typically sell when a new Gazette comes out? 26 May 2015 07:55 Calculating the sales of an online magazine like the Gazette is difficult. Not impossible, I presume, but so difficult that I’ve never done it because there’s no pressing reason to do so. All that really matters is that the magazine generates enough income to keep being published for (as of now) a little over eight years, with no end in sight. The first problem is that an electronic magazine has…