Subj : Re: Retro Gaming Magazines
To   : Adept
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Oct 28 2022 06:23:52

  Re: Re: Retro Gaming Magazines
  By: Adept to MATT MUNSON on Fri Oct 28 2022 10:54 am

 >  MM> Sounds cool. One of my ideas as a teenager was to make my own zine or
 >  MM> magazine. Maybe with software today, I could make a magazine with littl
 >  MM> or no problem since desktop publishing is for the masses now.
 > 
 > I do think the greater issue is figuring out printing and distribution.
 > 
 > Well, without spending a ton of money on it; you could produce a zine or mag
 > 
 > I still have the idea of making my ANSI calendar into a paper calendar, but 
 > 
 > But I haven't looked into it particularly much, other than that, when people
 > 
 > But, "Print a booklet that's calendar sized, and I give you the images that 
 > 
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The real challenge is getting your magazine known by the outside world, and
find people who wants to read it. Most people my age would not read anything if
you paid them.

Printing costs per issue diminish the more copies you produce. I am a bit out
of touch as of late with the printing industry, but as a rule of thumb, digital
printing is more flexible but more expensive, while mobile type presses are
very cheap but only work for certain sorts of magazines and only for mass
printing. I have picked deals for as low as 3 bucks the copy for black and
white printing.

Where costs get rough is in the copyright and manpower department. I estimate
an expense of 10 000 eur in copyright and author rights per issue for a
professional grade magazine. The salaries of the staff who is in the payroll
(asistant editors and such) is not taken into account. You need to produce
around 2 500 copies to reduce the copyright and authorship costs bellow 4 bucks
per issue, and you ned to figure out a way to sell as many.

TL;DR the first step to getting a magazine started is having deep pockets.



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