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• Charlie Stross commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
  It also came when Games Workshop moved from being a company which sold games to a company which sold expensive figures. This happened when Brian Ansell's Citadel Miniatures took over Games Workshop (who had lost the TSR Hobbies/AD&D franchise in the UK around the time). The CM crew's priority was to sell miniatures and accessories on as large a commercial scale as possible. GW's earlier management's priority had been to subsidize their RPG hobby by running shops and a fanzine. There was a Night of the Long Knives, followed by a corporate pivot in the direction of the pocket money...
• Antonia T Tiger commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
  We could argue a long time over details of the story. The change in style didn't come quite with the Citadel Miniatures takeover, as I recall it. Things happened 1987-88, with the Warhammer40k hitting the scene in late '87....
• paws4thot commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
  Also Antonia's #51 and #56 I'm not sure which of you is right about the timescale, although I'd agree with Charlie about the plot synopsis. My suggestion for when Jo Public noticed the change would be a 1987/88 issue of "White Dwarf" which carried an outright statement that they would no longer cover non-GW systems "because our editorial team can't write dispassionately about them"....
• Dave P commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
  Here's an interesting opinion piece on CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/2014/05/30/opinion/khan-amazon-hachette-antitrust/index.html?hpt=hp_bn1...
• john.bartley commented on A footnote about the publishing industry
  France....