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Scan 2
Blue Book v085 n06 [1947-10], 1947
17 lines. Read by computer on 18 September 2026. No printed page number was found. See the scan on archive.org.
1Readers' Comment
2More Fillers?
3THIS is not so much criticism as it is an appeal.
4Whatever you may do, never cut down on your quota of historical stories. To a lazy person like myself, they are actually a sugar-coated education—history painlessly taught.
5Never succumb to the blandishments of the serialists. Let each issue remain a complete entity, a well rounded meal, so that one can lay the issue aside satisfied, without the frustrated feeling a serial leaves.
6Enough of don'ts. Now for a, to me, very important point. Why not more space fillers, short amusing or instructive items, literary hors d'oeuvres, to whet one's appetite for more serious reading? When I pick up a magazine I always take a short exploratory trip through its pages, searching for such features, then settle to my reading. I think you'll find this a common practice among magazine readers.
7Forrest W. Shugart
9The Same Pre-War Thickness
10IN this post-war world when most every magazine has gone after the filthy dollar and filled its pages with ads, even to the extent of cutting down on their stories to save space for advertising, I've found that BLUE BOOK has them all beat. Your magazine is the same pre-war thickness, besides sticking to the old policy of no advertising matter. In this day and age when a quarter is small change, it will still buy a thick copy of BLUE BOOK—and look at what you get in exchange: about a dozen and a half stories, not just one-pagers, but honest-to-goodness full-length fiction stories, besides scads of articles thrown in to boot. If I wanted to read the ads, I'd buy a newspaper. It's cheaper.
11Why doesn't BLUE BOOK go on the air and dramatize its best stories? I'm sure it would become one of the headline shows.
12Charles L. Stratton
14From a Teacher
15WHEN the editorial policy, and the published fiction, is of such consistently high rank as that of BLUE BOOK, I think thanks are in order.
16In my work of training writers, I recommend BLUE BOOK to all students who are qualified to write popular adventure fiction. Many who had not previously read the BLUE BOOK have thanked me for recommending it; some have thought it a happy medium between the slicks and the pulps, and all have agreed it is an excellent book to study. . . . So, I thank you for the use of your "Text." W. J. R.
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