Corporate Knights loses thousands of copies, forced to bonus subscribers

In what can only be characterized as something less than a catastrophe, something more than an annoyance, the magazine Corporate Knights has gone to extraordinary lengths to mollify readers because many copies of its fall issue mysteriously disappeared.

The magazine has extended subscriptions by one issue and sent links to a digital edition to all its subscribers along with an apology. The magazine says it was because of an unspecified "accident" at its shipping house. Here was the message that subscribers received:

Dear Subscriber,

We hope this finds you in good spirits as we enter into the holiday season.

Our most recent issue (Fall 2007 Cleantech Issue) was regrettably victim of an accident at our shipping house. Thousands of copies of the magazine, most of them slated for our subscribers, disappeared. So, many of you, our dear readers, will be looking at your mailboxes in vain.

To rectify this, we are doing two things: First, we are making available special digital versions of our Cleantech issue (see links below); and second, we have added an extra (bonus) issue to all of your subscriptions.

We appreciate your support and apologize for not putting a hard copy of this issue in your hands. However, it is a carbon neutral one if you don’t print it out. :)

We do still have a couple hundred magazines at our office, so if this arrangement does not work for you, please just drop us a note or call the subscription department, and we will send out a hard copy issue to you (as if no shipping house accident had occurred).

Cheers, Corporate Knights Subscription Department