Asimov Press is going on hiatus. While a few more articles will appear over the next month ' and our stunning hardcover book, Making the Modern Laboratory, will come out this summer ' operations will pause in April. All articles will remain freely accessible online. As we prepare to pause, I want to celebrate what we've accomplished. In June 2023, Asimov Press was just a vague idea. (I remember posting the announcement from my phone in the Amsterdam metro, feeling a deep sense of fear about what we were starting.) A few months later, I brought on Xander Balwit. The two of us were its only editors and only full-time staff. We launched with about 7,000 subscribers, ported over from my personal blog, Codon. Our first article appeared in January 2024. While I had attended journalism school and thought I knew about publishing, I soon discovered that literally everything ' from managing people, to recruiting and paying writers, to fact-checking stories, printing books, and much else '...
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