Wooden Horse

The glossary at Wooden Horse Publishing lists only terms concerning the magazine industry. Still, useful and at the right price -- free! Not free is the database of [o]ver 2,000 US and Canadian consumer and trade print publications with the most complete information anywhere, including: Contact and publishing information, editorial calendars, reader demographics, editorial concepts, writer's guidelines. Rates vary from $1.99 for a day to $119 for a year's access. Or you could try to win week of free access by submitting a term that's not already in the glossary. I was not favorably impressed with two of the top three categories in the sample database report: "Status" (active or not) and "Uses freelance writers" (yes or no). Why research a database with inactive magazines or ones that don't accept my work? It seems more reasonable to simply deactivate those entries as long as they don't apply. Still, many of the rest of the characteristics look useful, assuming the data are current.

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