Only in the world of serials

Anyone notice that real life rules don't apply in the world of serials?

For instance, I received a serial in late December with the cover chronology of 1999...but a publication and copyright date of 2009. Time travel anyone?


Or did you know that there are apparently 53 weeks in a year? According to one of the European weekly magazines we receive, there now are...


Or that checking galleys of the covers is not mandatory...We received an issue of a music magazine that is now number 178, when the 180s have already been published...


But my favorite has to be a pseudo-science magazine that publishes thematic volumes on topics...and sent me volume 16 and volume 5 in the same envelope yesterday...


And then you have the offenders who like to change chronology, enumeration and number of issues, all at once and without telling anyone....I had a stack of those to go through yesterday...and it wouldn't be so bad of a task if I didn't have to play scavenger hunt for the publication information....!

Happy New Year!