I think you are jumping to conclusions here. Just because this is how the entire magazine industry does things, including the previous print editions of Dragon and Dungeon, doesnt mean it would work here. :P
-Tig
Well, I think we can take this as official, that the Barbarian is delayed until next month of so. I'll bet the cover for next month has a couple dragonborn barbarians on the front. :P This isn't that hard WOTC. During the month of September, put the OCTOBER issue of Dragon together. Then when we hit OCTOBER, you just put an article out Mon, Wed, Fri of each week and at the beginning of the next month put the final issue up with the corrections.
When they go subscription based how will they justify charging you for a Month's issue...Say September's and releasing it in October..Will WOTC allow you the completed Issue in a Month that your subscription Expired. If I pay for 6 Months of issues, I dang well better receive 6 issues, not 5 because they are compiled and released at the first of the following month.
January in January
February in February
March in March
Not
January in February
February in March
March in April
Regardless of what people say, the E-zines need to be released on the same date completed. If they wanna release supplements they can do that in the features section. When they release the Current issue they need to release the next month's Table of Contents
Oh and I forgot...here's another reason to do it all at one time because..
if the Website is down during your subscription period and its not available while your subscription is in effect, your entitled to it because you paid for it.