What they wanted, 1951

The editors of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction solicited their readers on what format of content they wanted in the magazine. This in the day of all postal mail. They published the results in the June 1951 issue, page 21 ...

• Shorts, only, no novelets ......... 40%
• An occasional novelet, but only
  if of very high quality ........... 17%
• A regular policy of a novelet
  in each issue ..................... 20%
• Serials ...........................  7%
• Anything the editors think best ... 12%

They did not cite how many responses they received.

In June 1951 F & SF was published bi-monthly, with 128 pages per issue.

If you read F & SF, here are the same options (plus one new option and question) in an UNOFFICIAL, uncontrolled  online survey.

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