Originally Posted by Hydro Junkie

I understand that. The reason everything is delayed is that the magazines have to wait for the articles to come in. To allow everyone that wants to have their event in the publication, the publications set a deadline as to when they must receive the information. Atter that, they can lay out and print in in few days. After that, it's a matter of shipping the printed materials to the distributors who then deliver it the the vendors. All that said, the fastest part of the whole process is actually the laying out and printing.