More On Anime Insider Closing Down

* the comics news site Newsarama has the official word from Wizard about the closure of its Anime Insider magazine. The last issues will be #67. No reason for the closure is given. When the initial word was released, what was cited by those unnamed sources was a sudden drop in advertising revenue, which may or may not suggest that the company's ability to absorb such blows right now may have been a factor as well.

* there's a good point made here that part of what has people a little upset about this move is how it was done. Specifically, there's a perception that Wizard bled the magazine of staff promising to utilize a growing freelance pool and then cut it when it was easiest to do so. Further, given that the other magazines have been cut to the bone, the exact same thing could potentially happen to them. As far as the staff being let go, what I heard and what I guess they're not releasing is that this meant Summer Mullins, Angela Hanson, a newer male employee and perhaps a member of the general advertising staff that worked with the magazine.
 
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