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emeraldcite
11-13-2005, 07:18 PM
Scifiction (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/), hosted by scifi.com (http://www.scifi.com/), will be discontinued in Jan 2006.

I don't know if I fully understand why they would do this considering the many awards the online mag garnered. I guess to save money to dump it into more dumb made-for-tv movies. Whatever.

Another good market down the drain. Any thoughts?
Cathy C
11-13-2005, 08:41 PM
:eek: AACK! I've got an ad in the February edition! Where did you see this notice, Emerald?
emeraldcite
11-13-2005, 08:55 PM
I learned it through Brian Keene's blog (http://www.hailsaten.blogspot.com/) and checked it out myself at the Scifiction site. Ellen has a goodbye letter. :(
emeraldcite
11-13-2005, 09:01 PM
For those of you sad to see a good, well-paying market vanish, here's where to send your thoughts: feedback@scifi.com
Cathy C
11-13-2005, 09:24 PM
Whew! I thought they were discontinuing the PRINT mag when I first read your post! I'm sorry to see the on-line site go, though. It was a terrific site. I'll drop them a feedback. Thanks for the info!
emeraldcite
11-13-2005, 09:34 PM
Didn't mean to give you a heart attack. Wonder if we can get Jenna to install a defillabrator forum...
September skies
11-13-2005, 10:09 PM
Sorry to hear that. It's always sad when an online-mag we love goes under.
Jamesaritchie
11-14-2005, 04:22 AM
Well, you can't make money by giving something away. SCIFICTION was a freebie, so every penny NBC put into it was lost. Sooner or later, they had to get tired of putting money in and getting nothing back.
Euan H.
11-14-2005, 01:49 PM
Well that sucks. They've had some damn good stories on the site.