Press Release Column
February 1977

This column was distributed to approximately 10 to 12 publications throughout its history. Some of the magazines that used the material published in this column were Wargamers Digest, World War II Digest, The Dragon, Wargamers Newsletter, Military Modeling, Wargaming, The Strategic Review, The Space Gamer, Model Retailer, and Craft Model and Hobby. The last two magazines were widely distributed and well respected trade publications. A trade publication was a magazine that was distributed to retail stores from which the retailers would purchase products for their store or stores. These magazines were extremely influential in the success or failure of publishers and manufacturers because without retail sales it was difficult for the manufacturers and game publishers to succeed and expand. A majority of the other magazines were published by a wide variety of gaming publishers. After the first few months, I provided the magazines that subscribed to my Press Release column about 40 typewritten pages (this was before personal computers) of reviews and 50 to 100 photographs a month. The PDF copies of these early reviews (including grammatical and spelling errors) and other articles I have written are on the Historical Document pages.

Press Release – February 1977

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