Double Gun Journal -Sad News

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

The amount of work that goes into proof-reading, picture editing and cropping, communicating with authors, and all other duties of layout artistry, along with publication deadlines, requires quite a bit more than simply the love of ‘your’ work and the satisfaction of a quality finished product…

It all requires a certain number of subscribers to make it all worth it. The end result must be able to support the owners/editors (Daniel & Joanna) in some sort of lifestyle that they deem acceptable. And at this stage of their lives they would like to not be tied to their desks and keyboards.
I personally have no problem with their decision to close the doors of DGJ.

But like everyone else, I will surely miss the best magazine ever published on the guns we all love so much.

Hopefully the void will someday be filled.

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I know Dean has done the leg work for PP in the past and now, as your advertising manager, I can tell you the amount of work to produce ONE issue of a magazine is astounding. I have told our publishing/printing company, and editors Mike and Sam, that they have convinced me that being a publisher or editor is work for which there is NOT enough pay. And this is all done by volunteers. There is not one job, editor, printer, treasurer, etc... that is easy with producing Parker Pages. I can't imagine doing what Daniel and Joanna did all those years with such high quality and attention to detail. But yes, lack of subscribers is a huge problem and costs to produce a periodical like that must have been just staggering.

[Kensal Rise]

Originally Posted by Andrew Sacco

I know Dean has done the leg work for PP in the past and now, as your advertising manager, I can tell you the amount of work to produce ONE issue of a magazine is astounding. I have told our publishing/printing company, and editors Mike and Sam, that they have convinced me that being a publisher or editor is work for which there is NOT enough pay. And this is all done by volunteers. There is not one job, editor, printer, treasurer, etc... that is easy with producing Parker Pages. I can't imagine doing what Daniel and Joanna did all those years with such high quality and attention to detail. But yes, lack of subscribers is a huge problem and costs to produce a periodical like that must have been just staggering.

Spot on!!