June Golf Monthly out 13th April!

[delc]

Does it really make an iota of difference to what's between the covers? They could call it what they liked on the spine and it wouldn't matter. I really fail to see what the gripe is here especially when the guy at the top took time out to explain it AGAIN

The fact that it's an 'industry standard' still doesn't make it right!

 

[Hobbit]

I don't even look at the date. For me it's a "brilliant, another issue has arrived."

 

[HomerJSimpson]

The fact that it's an 'industry standard' still doesn't make it right!

It doesn't matter. To be honest your constant whining especially when Mike has explained it makes you look foolish and GM aren't going to change it to make you happy

 

[Fish]

I don't even look at the date. For me it's a "brilliant, another issue has arrived."

I just look at the cover picture, if it's not the same as the one I bought a few weeks before, it's the latest one, it will usually have up to date headlines on the cover also making it easy to recognise and associate as the latest, it's not rocket (or glider) science :smirk:

 

[MashieNiblick]

Isn't it all to do with the rotation of the earth not being perfectly in sync with the calendar, so every few hundred years calendars have have to reset so that we don't end up having Christmas in what is effectively April. Same with golf mags, I guess so maybe there needs to be big international golf magazine industry convention to agree new dates for editions which align better with the dates of the Majors. Or something.

:lol:

 

[chellie]

It's a bit misleading to the general public. You might buy the June issue sometime in mid June, thinking it's the latest edition, but they may have bought out two more editions by then!

Where would you buy it from? Newsagents wouldn't be stocking the old edition.

 

[Imurg]

It should really be called the April/May edition in my opinion. Certainly not the June issue!

Put the bone down Fido. It's becoming tiresome.....

It's a bit misleading to the general public. You might buy the June issue sometime in mid June, thinking it's the latest edition, but they may have bought out two more editions by then!

Mine says June 2016(14 APR-11 MAY)
If you only look at the first half of that then who's fault is it...?
It's the only place, on my mag, where June is shown....

 

[Deleted member 15344]

What difference does it make ?

All that matters surely is the content - unless you're searching for something to complain about. Believe Mike has given the reason why

 

[Deleted member 15344]

It's a bit misleading to the general public. You might buy the June issue sometime in mid June, thinking it's the latest edition, but they may have bought out two more editions by then!

It won't be on sale in the shops in June

I have only ever see the current edition on the shelves so how can you buy the "wrong" edition

 

[mcbroon]

You need to get a hobby, Del. Can I suggest golf or something like that?

 

[rudebhoy]

have covered this one many times but its an industry standard all magazines adhere to and as D4S says its a bit academic - we produce 13 issues a year, one every 4 weeks. more relevant is the on sale 'from-to' dates on the spine (and next to the bar code on newstrade copies)

If there are 13 issues, and 12 are named after the months of the year, what's the 13th one named after?

 

[CMNI]

Totally with Delc. I bought May issue last Thursday, as I only get them when I get the chance. And now the new one is out. If I went in to Tesco at the end of this month to and bought the June copy I would expect it to cover the Masters in some form. Content just seems dated by the time you get it.

Granted I bought May issue because it had the masters preview I wanted to read, but the more you think about it. Why the hell would May contain a preview of something the happened in April.

Why not just call it 2016 Ed. 1, Ed. 2 etc etc?

Industry standard or not, it is misleading to those who don't know. (which until this thread I did not).

 

[Garush34]

Not sure what's misleading about it, if you pick up the June issue in May what's the issue. It's not like your standing in tescos thinking you've missed a whole month of the year. Just buy it if u want or don't.

 

[Fish]

Not sure what's misleading about it, if you pick up the June issue in May what's the issue. .

June 😉

 

[bobmac]

June 

Unless it is June then it will be August

 

[srixon 1]

Will the June issue have the review of the latest Taylor Made driver, or is there a new one in every issue?

 

[ManinBlack]

If there are 13 issues, and 12 are named after the months of the year, what's the 13th one named after?

Now I really would like to know the answer to that one!

 

[ManinBlack]

I used to go out with a girl who had every copy of Golf Monthly ever printed. We split up, she had too many issues.

 

[Deleted Member 1156]

Mike, just to keep Delc happy can you please label the next edition as

#1

then the one after that as

#2

and so on......pretty please. I really can't take any more of this.......

 

[Oxfordcomma]

I spent a few minutes looking this up while I was on the train yesterday and bored enough to be reading this thread. It seems that it's to do with shelf-life in the newsagents, and that's why it's industry standard. The publishers want people to see the mag on the shelf in the first week in May and think that it's still current, not 4 weeks old, so they call it the June issue.

So, it's probably still wrong, back in the real world it doesn't make a lot of sense to sell a June issue at the start of April, but there is at least a reason. Can we perhaps all stop caring now?