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'Kids Discover’ Offers Replacement Copies

By Debra Lau Whelan -- School Library Journal, 5/1/2007

If you happened to notice a familiar looking issue of Kids Discover in your mailbox last month, you weren’t alone.

When a media specialist from Livingston, MT, searched his back issues and discovered that the April 2007 issue on pioneers was identical to the one he received in August 1999, he wasn’t pleased. So he contacted Judith Princz, the magazine’s CEO and publisher. To remedy the matter, the monthly magazine is offering school and public libraries the option of extending their subscriptions or receiving replacement copies of their choice.

Princz explains that the themed publication mainly targets families for use at home and that the privately owned magazine typically repeats its most popular subjects—such as pyramids—even though subscribers can order from a backlist.

The magazine, which plans to repeat its water and Leonardo da Vinci issues later this year, does update subjects that need it, like the solar system. But topics like Pompeii and Abraham Lincoln will have minimal changes, just like the recently reissued pioneers edition, which only had its reading list updated, Princz says.

Although libraries represent only a fraction of the magazine’s 350,000 subscribers, the CEO says her company will consider a new arrangement in which they only receive new issues. Those wishing to take advantage of the magazine’s offer should e-mail kdjprincz@hotmail.com.

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