As most of you will know, John Joseph Adams has bought the magazines he edits — Lightspeed and Fantasy — from Prime Books and is now publishing them himself. Rather than have two separate magazines coming out simultaneously, he has opted to merge them into a single magazine known as Lightspeed. The first combined issue is now available in the Wizard’s Tower store.
Pricing for individual issues of the new magazine is £2.99, which is the same as you used to pay if you bought both magazines together. (Individual issues were £1.99). The older issues are still available, both individually and via the usual “buy both” discount offer.
If you are interested in seeing what Lightspeed looks like as an ebook, JJA has put together a free sampler of material from 2011. There is lots of good material in there, including fiction by Nancy Kress, Catherynne M. Valente, Ken Liu, Sarah Monette & Genevieve Valentine. You can download it from our store (scroll down). Note that from now on the ebook editions will include an exclusive novella-length story that will not be available in the free website version, so there’s a real incentive to buy the magazine.
Yea! I’m all for “free teaser model” versions – and getting more for paying for it? Gold! I’ve asked before, but as I’m going to tweet it and don’t remember, for those of us in the states on the dollar, is there an option to pay in dollars or do we pay in VISA and let them make the exchange?
Sadly a multi-currency store is way beyond my means, though I suspect I should have opted to sell in $ from the start. PayPal will convert for you, no matter how you pay. It won’t give you the best exchange rate in the world, but it is seamless (or at least it is when I buy stuff, and my PayPal is USD-based).
Heh. I think he should’ve called it “Light Fantastic”, to catch an echo of both names.
No matter. When I have an e-reader, I’ll be there…