[HN Gopher] Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It...
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       Astra Magazine Had Creative Freedom and a Budget. It Wasn't Enough
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2022-12-06 22:12 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | AlbertCory wrote:
       | > Astra's staff decided the magazine would be a 192-page full
       | color book distributed through Penguin Random House, like the
       | rest of Astra Publishing House's titles. As a result, virtually
       | any independent bookstore in the country would be able to stock
       | it. And then, in an additional stroke of luck, Hudson News agreed
       | to display the magazine at airports and train stations.
       | 
       | OK, they wanted to go the old-school route, which was wonderful,
       | but it didn't work. As the article said, it never worked very
       | well in terms of being profitable. That's not why you run a
       | magazine like that.
       | 
       | There are lots of other business models for literary writing
       | nowadays, usually Web-only, none of which produce very much
       | revenue, but at least they wouldn't have lost as much.
        
       | greenie_beans wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/oCAMj
        
         | culi wrote:
         | even better if you never wanna deal with paywalls again:
         | 
         | https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea...
        
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