I want to get into publishing

[Trousersnake]

Firstly sorry if this is in the wrong forum - Move accordingly if required.

I'm looking for some advice/wise words/motivation/general comments/flames/etc

Here's the story,

Since I was about 7-8 I have loved magazines...well magazines with things I am interested in - Video Games, Electronics, Computers, Movies, Music and Social Commentary.

Recently I realized that I buy less and less magazines from what I used to - I am online more getting my fix of information and opinion. Also magazines today are so expensive (9.95$ for a mag that comes out monthly) and its full of ads anyhow...for content that hasn't got what magazines had 2 decades ago.

Magazines today seem to be boot lickers - They'll d anything and say anything to keep their audience and their advertisers happy. Fuck that, I want the truth.

So I have decided magazines are merely around 23 A3 pages folded in half and printed on both sides with news, opinion, reviews, discussion and photos/art...which is lifted from every other source and press release going.

I can do that.

So the situation currently lies in to expend some resources creating something on paper, or to make it electronic. I don't seek to make money out of this venture but any costs I bear I would like to recover - So I thought it's going to be so small that I just need to keep the costs down and maybe a classifieds section that had a nominal fee to list something might cover that.

As for a reader base I was thinking I could create physical copies and hand them out outside relevant stores to people that will take them.

Anyhow...you talk now :)

[Lanny]

Internet mags are a piece of shit, don't go that way.

That is all.

[Trousersnake]

Internet mags are a piece of shit, don't go that way.

That is all.

Kind of hard to avoid it for somethings - Like videos and answering questions via email/twitter/whatever

Also what do you mean 'internet magazines' - You mean sites that try to look like a magazine that you browse through awkwardly...or everything digital like pdf's/textfiles as downloads?

[Lanny]

Kind of hard to avoid it for somethings - Like videos and answering questions via email/twitter/whatever

Also what do you mean 'internet magazines' - You mean sites that try to look like a magazine that you browse through awkwardly...or everything digital like pdf's/textfiles as downloads?

The internet is littered with issues 1 and sometimes 2 of pdf magazines that are doomed to fail. If you go into the print medium, it's a commitment. People recognize that commitment and buy it, you recognize that commitment and continue to produce and potential advertisers recognize that commitment and buy ad space. Internet magazines, regardless of how well they're set up, are a cop out.