David.Andrews@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (David Andrews) (07/11/90)
Index Number: 9080
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SB> Scuttlebut has it that we may have already received our last
SB> issue of Dialogue Magazine. The board met on June 11 and wants
SB> to close it down. Anyone else know more?
I received a letter from Dialogue a week or so ago, an emergency
plea for money. As you will remember, they almost went under in
1986, I believe it was, and were only saved by an Ann Landers
column plus grant from Clement Stone. They offered me a
fund-raising job twice when I ran the Reading Service in Chicago,
but I wasn't interested. They have never had a good professionally
run fund-raising effort, relying on the ond-boy system, Lions Clubs
etc. With fund- raising competition getting so fierce, they most
professionalize their efforts and expand them also. Unless they do
this they will eventually go under, even if they get another
emergency reprieve. I had to raise approximately $250,000 a year
when in Chicago, and it is a tough way to make a living, but it can
be done.
David Andrews
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Index Number: 10636
[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]
I talked to Bonnie Miller, the former Editor of Dialogue Magazine
the other day. She is now the manager of the Reading Service in
Chicago. Anyway, she says that the Lifeprints magazine has
bought Dialogue. I do not know any more then that, such as
whether subscriptions will be extended, what the content will be
etc.
We shall see.
David Andrews
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