An advanced Linux Mag - was Re: [Gllug] Algorithm question foryour Friday morning

[Peter Childs]

I don't think we need reinvent the wheel. Linux Magzine is not bad
really quite advanced in many of its articles. I only stopped
subscribing due to number of article on security I was not intrested
in. They are always looking the authors so maybe support is better
than starting yet another mag.

We have 3 linux magazines do we need any more? And all 3 are put for
different markets.

We have bigger battles to fight than to create yet another mag.

Peter.

On 19/11/06, Ryan Cartwright <ryan at crimperman.org> wrote:
> Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> > Jason Clifford wrote:
> >> On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, salsaman wrote:
> >>
> >> If you can be certain that you can get a sufficient readership then you
> >> can always get the advertising. The difficult bit is the former.
> >>
> >
> > Why don't you try ditching the idea of printing it - make issues
> > available as PDF once a month, free download for registered users. Your
> > registered user list and number of downloads gives you some idea about
> > circulation - you can then take that to advertisers. With zero
> > print/distribution costs it should be a lot easier to make ad revenue
> > cover costs of commissioning articles, editing, hosting and bandwidth.
> >
> > There's another web magazine I read regularly that uses this model, and
> > it seems to work well for them.
> >
> This does seem to work but Free Software Magazine[1] ( assuming that's
> the one you are referring to ) is not exactly a great money spinner -
> according to the editor anyway.
>
> They make the printed version available via print on demand (Lulu.com)
> which further saves costs. They also "pay" contributors in books donated
> by FOSS publishers (O'Reilly, No Starch, Apress etc.).
>
> I think there is space for such a mag as Jason describes but the
> (traditional printed) computer magazine market is very crowded so it
> might be better to approach it in a way that Mike suggests.
>
> Ryan
>
> [1] http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com
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