| Welcome to Casino Life where, at G2E, we will be celebrating our 8th birthday. It was way back in 2005 that we published our first issue. Since then we have evolved - dropping the news and sharing it instead through the immediacy of our website and daily email service. Our iPad application is bespoke - not Apples News Stand or a collection of PDFs. Worldwide, we have built up a network of professional journalists who contribute content which is now almost 100% original. The magazine focus is on the casino operators themselves - not press releases - and our readership grows daily along with our social media footprint. The philosophy back in 2005 was to create a publication that can "...be read - not just scanned through"; a magazine that had dwell time; one that was not a cut and paste of manufacturers' news that would somehow oblige them to advertise. That philosophy has worked. Our advertisers support us for commercial reasons - they want to be seen by their customers. We continue in that vein with features on the Greenbrier Casino Club, Hard Rocks CEO Jim Allen, Simon Thomas CEO & Chairman of the Hippodrome. We also talk to stalwarts: Jens Halle; Marcus Prater and Johnny Ortiz. Finally, without getting too emotional and thanking the graphics guys, printers and the academy it would be remiss of me to not say a big thanks to my business partner Peter White who has been pivotal in growing Ace Publishing Ltd. and it's publications from the start. He'll hate this foreword because I've said that. We hope to meet some of you in Las Vegas. Please drop by our booth #5745. Glyn Thomas Editor Casino Life blog | 
