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On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 3:24:52 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 2:54:37 PM UTC-4, Michael Pendragon wrote:
> > On Wednesday, July 31, 2019 at 2:48:38 PM UTC-4, Will Dockery wrote:
> > 
> > > > > Playgrounds Magazine / December 2014  
> > > > > Published on Nov 30, 2014  
> 
> https://issuu.com/willdockery/docs/122014playgroundsall
>  
> > > > > Playgrounds Magazine / December 2014 issue. 
> >
> > > > Paid subscriptions?  Or left in piles in various stores, bars and coffee shops around town?
> > > 
> > > Follow the link, read the zine, and all your questons will be answered.
> > 
> > That was a rhetorical question
> 
> This was a statement of fact:
> 
> Circulation: 10,000 copies per month, every month, for nearly twenty years.
> 

Again: by "circulation" you mean that 10K copies were printed up and left in various piles and bins around town.  Local businesses paid to have advertisements and listings in it.  People picked one up, leafed through it looking for coupons or a crossword puzzle, decided what restaurant, cineplex or bar to go to, and tossed them in the nearest garbage pail.

The publishers boast a 10K circulation, based on the false assumption that the copies they dump off in the local laundromat are going to be read.  This somewhat inflated number is used when selling ad space.  

In short, it's a glorified flyer.

Even small press magazines with a 200 print run are preferable, as they will actually be read by others with an interest in poetry.