CORAL First Issue Coming Soon

With a cover story about the amazing triggerfishes, the January/February 2009 Issue of CORAL Magazine is in the works.

Contrary to many rumors circulating in the reefkeeping world, the magazine has not ceased publication but is under the roof of a new publisher in Vermont working closely with Daniel Knop and Matthias Schmidt, the German founders of KORALLE.

Circulation is set to increase by 33% in the first issue, making it the largest of the international editions of the magazine, which appears in German, French, Italian, Polish, Russian, and English. The new license to produce CORAL includes distribution throughout the English-speaking world.

Our new CORAL Subscription Center is now open at CORAL SUBSCRIPTION CENTER.

CORAL Is Alive and Well

Contrary to many fears, CORAL Magazine is alive and well.

I have just returned from Münster, Germany after meeting with CORAL founder Daniel Knop and his extremely likable publisher, Matthias Schmidt.

In brief, the next issue of CORAL is now in production here in Vermont, and our new company, Reef to Rainforest Media, has been given the privilege to create and deliver the magazine for North America and the English-speaking world.

Many of you know us from our MICROCOSM books, by such respected authors as Scott Michael, Michael Paletta, Eric Borneman, Svein Fosså & Alf Jacob Nilsen, John Tullock, Dr. Ron Shimek, Lance Ichinotsubo & Bob Goemans, Matt Wittenrich, Carl DelFavero, Joyce Wilkerson, and others. We hope to bring a new level of quality and great content to CORAL, starting with the first issue of 2009.

Subscribers should rest assured that they will not miss an issue of CORAL if they re-enlist promptly with us.

We apologize for the inconvenience involved, but those of you with CORAL subscriptions can get a refund from the former publisher if you wish. You can reinstate your subscription by clicking the order button below. We are offering a First Issue Free, followed by a full year of CORAL for just $37.

You can be the judge of the new, relaunched CORAL. As long-time friends of founder Daniel Knop, we want carry on its editorial mission and make it better than ever. CORAL has enriched our own reefkeeping experiences for the past decade, and we hope it will carry on this great tradition, starting in January.

For anyone wishing to subscribe, we have set up an interim order funnel. Click below and we will be sure you get the new CORAL, to be mailed in January.

Subscription Term

1 year (Special Offer: 7 issues) $37.00     2 years (12 issues) $67.00     3 years (18 issues) $90.00     Canadian 1 year (Special Offer: 7 issues) $49.00     Other Foreign 1 year (Special Offer: 7 issues) $57.00

CORAL Magazine to Relaunch with New Publisher

Word is just starting to leak out that all of CORAL Magazine's subscribers are losing their subscriptions.

Leng Sy, president of EcoSystem Publications in California, has announced that he is ceasing publication of the five-year-old English-language CORAL. The magazine is an offshoot of the highly acclaimed and successful KORALLE, founded by Daniel Knop and Matthias Schmidt in Muenster, Germany in 1999.

Effective December 12th, worldwide rights to publish CORAL Magazine in English were placed in the hands of Reef to Rainforest Media of Charlotte, Vermont. As editor and publisher, I returned from Germany this week with the disks required to produce the January/February issue of the new CORAL.

Our new company is best known for the involvement of many of its key staff with Microcosm Books, publishers of many bestselling marine aquarium authors, including Robert M. Fenner, Scott W. Michael, Michael S. Paletta, John H. Tullock, Alf Jacob Nilsen, Svein A. Fosså, Eric H. Borneman, Matthew L. Wittenrich, Bob Goemens, Lance Ichinotsubo, Carl DelFavero, Joyce Wilkerson, Larry Tackett, Denise Nielsen Tackett, and others.

Those who were expecting a December/January Issue will get January/February in its place. All of us involved with the relaunch wish to assure everyone that the magazine will continue without interruption, although this first issue will be a few weeks late.

Subscribers can get refunds on their old subscriptions from EcoSystem Aquariums.

Those who wish to continue will need to resubscribe by clicking the banner above or below, or going directly to PayPal. For a limited time, a new subscription comes with the first issue free or a total of 14 months of bimonthly issues for the old one-year price of $37.50.

In appointing the new publishing team, Matthias Schmidt said, "We are thrilled at the a quality of people who are gathering to produce CORAL and we are certain that American and Canadian reef enthusiasts will find the magazine every bit as good, if not better than ever."

Your comments and suggestions are invited.