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Well, this is a fitting ending to the Earth magazine fiasco:
>Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 13:37:02 -0500 (CDT)
>X-Sender: rcoontz@email.kalmbach.com
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>To: blake@orionsociety.org
>From: rcoontz@earthmag.com (Robert Coontz)
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>Chip,
>
>It's my sad duty to let you know that Earth magazine is going out of
>business. Our publisher, Kalmbach Publishing Company, has decided that our
>August issue will be our last. Your article, which was scheduled for our
>October issue, will not appear in print. You'll be paid in full, though
>(the check is probably already en route), and rights to the article will
>revert to you in mid-July, once we are sure that no other company is going
>to buy the magazine. After that, of course, you will be free to sell it to
>any other magazine you like.
>
>Sorry about this, and thanks for your hard work.
>
>Robert
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