Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 Part 52

1. Your magazine (or should I say "our" magazine?) is too small. Of course, it would be a radical change to make it larger, but, like others, I think in the end you would gain rather than lose by it. Most small magazines are cheap affairs, and to have Astounding Stories small brands it as a cheap type of magazine. Small magazines are more likely to be hidden on the newsstands by larger ones, and in most stores the large magazines have the more advantageous positions.

2. The edges of your pages are uneven. You look in the index and find an interesting story is on, for example, page 56.

You skim the pages to find it, and from page 43 you find yourself suddenly at page 79. Make the paper more even, please.

3. Don't have advertis.e.m.e.nts before the stories. Have them in the rear.

4. Have a full page ill.u.s.tration facing the beginning of each story. If at the end of a story you find pages won't turn up right, continue the last page to the back of the book.

Wesso is excellent. Another good artist is Paul, who draws for another Science Fiction magazine. Your cover ill.u.s.trations are fine.

Summary: Enlarge size of magazine, smooth edges of paper, have advertis.e.m.e.nts in rear of book, use full page ill.u.s.trations.

If this is expensive, you could charge twenty-five cents instead of twenty cents, and I, for one, would be glad to pay the extra nickel as I do for other magazines of Science Fiction.--Robert Baldwin, 1427 Judson Ave., Evanston, Illinois.

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