NOTHING IS WRITTEN - EDITOR’S DESK Rick Rader, MD, FAAIDD, FAADM - Editor in Chief
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t was in the middle of 1663, and one can only imagine the excitement felt by the German theologian and poet Johann Rist the night before his new magazine Erbauliche Monaths-Unterredungen (“Edifying Monthly Discussions”) left the print shop and was brought out to the street to sell. It was a crapshoot for sure. After all, it was the first magazine to be published in the world. Years later, in 1741, there was a competition to publish America’s first magazine. Two owners of rival newspapers, Andrew Bradford and Benjamin Franklin rushed to publish a magazine and claim the honor. Bradford was the first, with his American Magazine, which was published only three days before Benjamin Franklin published The General Magazine. While both failed within a short time, the idea of publishing magazines was off and running. Today there are currently 7,416 consumer print magazines, thousands more are digital, and thousands more belong to the scientific community in the form of journals.
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