Ozmentality

I just caught some troubling news over on Jordan Lapp's blog Without Really Trying www.withoutreallytrying.com that The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has run into a major snag. Anderson News, the company that distributes the venerable magazine, is suspending all operations.

This just on the heels of the news that Realms of Fantasy, the only slick fantasy magazine currently on newsstands, is folding in April.

There may soon not be a single fantasy outlet on the newsstands. Here's what I don't understand: we live in the era of Harry Potter, Eragon, LOTR books and films, World of Warcraft--we're awash in fantasy--you'd think the demand would be more, not less!