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Dave HornishSCD still has about 15,000 subscribers if I remember correctly. What they really need to do is meld it with Tuff Stuff and come out either every two weeks or once a month. Why it is published weekly at this point is beyond me-it must add a huge chunk to the expenses mailing out all those papers 52 times a year.
I've made this point before: F&W merged their record collector mags into one publication and it improved dramatically and is still going strong. Some of Toy Shop was incorporated into Antique Trader I think, but that mag was destroyed years ago by Krause when they removed most of the articles and just had ads.
The thing that I would like to see is a combination of three or four of their pubs like SCD, Antique Trader, Postcard Collector into one magazine. I could live with the stuff I don;t collect plus I would certainly learn a few things I would not know otherwise from such a rag. This will never happen though.