This NEW online subscription version of FSM seems, to me, to be a bad move. Roger has pointed out one of the most obvious reasons that they are setting them selves up for a final destination of abandoning FSM completely. It's not news that print publications in general are suffering huge losses. That FSM cater to a small community of collectors is what should be prying their eyes wide-open. That they haven't made their new version of the magazine address any relationship to being "collectible," is going to further alienate their already dwindling presence in the film music community. Serious, we are collectors, so when we can't collect it, we ultimately, and frustratingly so, lose some of our passion for what we love. As a collector I love to archive things. That I wouldn't be able to do this with the newest version of FSM is the final nail in the coffin for me - I simply will not subscribe to something I can not reference back to. More importantly, while the magazine's format is import, so is it's content - and that is something that has been lacking for several years. At best, the magazine is a "Fanzine," and has always lacked a certain sense of being taken seriously. As a supporter of the magazine in it's earliest format, I was elated when they actually went to color and started to look like a legitimate mag. Great promise seemed to rear it's head and the sky was the limit. But In my opinion, though I enjoyed most of the articles and their efforts to showcase film music in it's many forms, they just kept missing opportunities to grow as they could have. I stopped buying the magazine a few years ago and then have only bought it sporadically, if at all. Admittedly, It was kind of fun to have it out on my coffee table next to National Geographic and other more prestigious magazines. But it always has seemed to be like walking around with a Uncle John's Bathroom Reader and not having anyone take you seriously. "What the Hell is this?"
Collectors are a kooky bunch, still - I wish those guys much luck with their efforts to keep the ball rolling.
Anyone reading this?
~ Oz
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