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The subscribers have blown their money .... despite paying their upfront subscriptions in good faith to get a magazine that at best had a very poor record wrt publishing on time over the years .... a reason why I ditched Sky & Space years ago as well not being impressed with the content.
The ones I feel sorry for are the local very small astrogear vendors, whom will have signed up to buy advertising in Sky & Space , several issues in advance and will have paid for some or all of that advertising which will not have been cheap which they will never benefit from now (but at least they can write the cost of that off against their tax as a loss).
If I were in the trade and Sky & Space returned sometime in the future I'd be very reluctant to throw more money at them to buy advertising spreads in the reborn magazine. Once burnt twice shy.
Companies who take people's subscriptions and do not deliver the goods , just shut down and keep the subscriptions are crooks.
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