To declare my hand upfront, I am the publisher of Trad Wood and felt that I ought to respond to the comments on which is the BIGGEST woodworking magazine.
Yes GW is the best selling woodwork mag in the UK - check
www.abc.org.uk if you want to see sales figures for those titles that submit to independent audit (people make their own judgement on why titles do not submit to this scrutiny).
We took the decision to add more pages (8 or 16 to be precise compared with previous issues - so I'd like to think that was a little more than the "few" Pete gives us credit for!) in order to provide extra value for money for readers. That seems to me to be worth shouting about and telling everyone. We do indisputably carry more pages than the others mags - like circulation it's not difficult to hide on this one!
I'm not really interested in a knocking match with our competitors. GW is a fine mag and their results speak for themselves. Equally I hope we will be applauded for improving our offering to woodworkers and seeking to improve our own sales.
Hope that helps.
Peter Johns