ScoobyMag folded??

[RA Dunk]

 

ANNOUNCEMENT

With immediate effect, JMB Publications Ltd will no longer be publishing Scooby Magazine.

Subscribers will be contacted shortly.

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Thank you to everybody who has given their support.

forums are down as well , anybody know any thing? pretty gutted if it`s true was a good read []

[Power Junkie]

Also paying for 12 and only getting 5, shame it was a good read,

[frank c]

I had heard that they were changing name but not this.......[]

 

Frank.

[st3ph3n]

I paid for 12 and got TWO I think.

Not entirely chuffed if it's true.

[~ ~ Cal ~~]

I looked forward to reading it but it never exactly blew me away......

How hard can it be to coordinate a few articles ( usually half produced by the cars owners anyway) and sling a few ad's in. I'm not so daft as to discount the issues surrounding printing, distribution, threshold sales etc but it cannot be that tricky to keep their customers happy

Let's hope they keep afloat even if it's just to read Andy F's articles

Cal

[st3ph3n]

Our photoshoot was due in the next one as well!

[Carl Davey]

That's a terrible shame if they have folded. I thought the magazine looked brilliant considering it was essentially one mans gargantuan effort that got it going in the first place. After chatting to Jon at Dastek i half-expected 6 pages of photocopied A4 stuck together (kidding) but felt the final product was excellent considering they had no major publisher backing.

It will be a great shame if that is the end. []

[jcscoob]

Thats a shame it was a goodish mag had a few copies but never subscirbed [thankfully] , and was looking forward to the photoshot bit []

[gogsie]

Shame My A**E, I just subscribed 2 months ago and only recieved 1 mag. I reckon he will make it up to me by giving me back issues? Not!!!!!!!! [:@]

[RA Dunk]

there seems to be legal issues about the name "scooby" which hanna barbra , the makers of "scooby doo" lol dont like

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Not sure what exactly is public at the moment so I'll say I heard this

through a 3rd party and have no idea if it is factual (keeping myself

out of trouble !)

I beleve this is what happened to S/mag.

Firstly,

a contributor of a technical article falsely claimed it to be his own

work. The issue was printed and almost out to distribution before JMB

were made aware that the particular article didn't actualy belong to

the contributor and it had been copied from another publication.

Attempts were made to buy the article from the real owner but the offer was declined.

This resulted in the loss of a complete issue printed run.

Shortly afterwards Hanna Barbera, http://www.toonopedia.com/hannabar.htm

the owners of Scooby-Doo allegedly raised a legal action prohibiting

the use of the name "scooby" in the title of the publication.

The actual name of the mag was Scooby Magazine. Scoobymag as one word would have been ok but not "Scooby" on its own apparently.

Another issue was printed, ready for distribution at this point but it was illegal to actually issue it.

A

new business will always have limited cash for contingencies. If they

get hit by two big 'show stoppers' on the trot it can be hard to

overcome.

I can only guess at the cost of these two most unfortunate issues.

I

can assure you these guys put a hell of an effort into this and

certainly are not swaning around in company cars spending your

subscription money.

I do know Jon had plans to change the name

and relaunch the mag (as mentioned on the website) and indeed this

still may be the case, it depends on what you read into the statement

published.

I hope it is still a viable business and wish Jon and Dee the best of luck with the recovery/relaunch.

Andy

[4Hero]

nice find Ac!D.

You are correct about the Scooby trademark, Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc have indeed registered to trademark the name Scooby. This trademark covers pretty much everything under the sun including "publication of printed matter and recordings".

Whatever the new plans are for the magazine, I'm sure subscribed members will be sorted out first.

Jon is a top bloke and I wish him all the best with his future plans!