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ABC. It stands for many things. Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Alcoholic Beverage Control (in California, at least) and, perhaps most important of all, the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

The Audit Bureau of Circulations is the organisation that counts up how many magazines you have sold and gives you a certificate you can proudly show to your advertisers when you are selling them pages. Every six or twelve months, a huge swathe of the UK’s magazines - everything from comics and womens’ mags to porn and computer mags - submits its details and spends a tense few weeks or months waiting to hear how they have done in comparison to the competition.

Well, today the results for the first six months of the year were published.

And it was good news. Excellent, in fact, making us officially the best-selling magazine in our market. So, that was good enough reason to break open the champagne - something that is happening with increasing regularity - and toast our success. Short speeches, multiple refills and not much to eat saw me sloping off home with a headache as the group split up. It was a happy afternoon and the news is good for those who are leaving us for pastures new - they can say they went out on a high.

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