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Well it was nice while it lasted

> In a public post on the official Facebook page of Asimov's Science Fiction, the magazine's editor Sheila Williams said "We're excited about Asimov's future with our new owners. We have lots of great stories lined up. There's no change to our editorial staff. Our new owners are readers who love genre magazines and we're looking forward to working with them."

Seems like things are going to be fine.

In all honesty, Amazon cutting digital magazine subscriptions and shifting everything over to "KindleUnlimited" was hugely damaging to these magazines and probably outright killed their business model. The new owners are apparently fans who are keeping the thing going practically as a charity.

This is very likely. Bezos’ early investment in political lobbying really paid off for them; bought them a judge who effectively killed competition from Apple, and they’ve been free of antitrust scrutiny since 2005.

Won’t help them much under Musk’s governance, though.

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