Re: WOTC pulls plug on Dragon & Dungeon mag

On Apr 20, 2007, at 2:17 PM, The Selin wrote:

> About that, I read that Dragon & Dungeon magazines  will be no  
> longer edited, but converted to digital format, and any new numbers  
> will be in digital format, too.

I don't know how this is possible. Every published document from WotC  
gets some amount of editing. Of course whatever the online offering  
will become will be edited.

A few years ago, WotC spun off its periodicals department. All of  
those employees became a new, independent company called Paizo. Paizo  
then licensed from WotC the right to publish Dragon and Dungeon  
magazines, this included the right to use material WotC considered  
its product identity. WotC did not renew the license to publish the  
magazines. It also has not rehired the periodicals employees from  
Paizo. What I am trying to say is that whatever WotC does for its  
online subscription-based offerings, it will not be the same thing as  
the current magazines... but just online instead.

The people who are doing the magazines now won't be the ones doing  
WotC's online subscription offering.  There won't just be a  
"conversion" top digital format. The magazines as we know them are  
going to die come September.

WotC certainly may resurrect the name Dragon and Dungeon for the new  
online subscription offerings. But let us not be fooled, it is won't  
be the same thing as what we know but just online instead.


Regards,
Eric Anondson