My wife is an independent magazine publisher and for a few years I did logistics and customer support. There's definitely a lot of turnover in terms of the magazine industry and there has been for the last decade or so. Most magazines are relying largely on ads for revenue, and that can fluctuate wildly, and there were a lot of magazines that totally mismanaged their transition to partially digital platforms back a decade-or-so ago; they'd branch out into online, their physical copy readship would go down, meaning their per-unit cost on the physical copies would go up, and pretty soon they'd be in a position where the physical magazine no longer made sense, and needed to be shuttered or kept only for its presence than as a revenue stream.
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