IROSF Suspending Publication
From their website:
Seattle, WA, 12/30/2009 – After six years of publication the Internet
Review of Science Fiction (irosf.com) will cease operations after the
February, 2010 issue. Publisher L Blunt “Bluejack” Jackson and Editor
Stacey Janssen expressed their gratitude to all the subscribers, con-
tributors, authors, and especially the volunteers who made IROSF such
a success since its first issue in January, 2004.
Continuous financial shortfalls added to the challenges of publishing
IROSF, and Jackson has expressed his intent to turn to new challenges
related to the economy and logistics of Internet publishing. “What we
learned with IROSF and AEon Speculative Fiction was that neither tra-
ditional nor community-driven economic models met our needs, and that
the complexity of managing a distributed volunteer pool burned people
out, despite a steady increase in revenue and readership. Our plan is
to use this knowledge, and the ready availability of new distribution
channels, to create the kind of environment that would have empowered
the editors to achieve the success that IROSF’s superb content always
deserved.”