Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:28:36 -0500 From: "Ludington, Jacob" <Jacob.Ludington@ed.state.ia.us> To: 'Joshua Barker' <phire@jigaboos.com>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: 'Michael Lucas' <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: BSD Magazine Message-ID: <E6B67CB27216D41195B600508BCF7A0E5211AF@edmail.ed.state.ia.us>
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I'm not suggesting that an online newsletter would completely replace the possibility of an offline mag. However, the world of online publishing moves at a much greater speed than the stodgy print world and by developing a countable readership online it might be possible to translate that into a marketable offline venture. The perceived risk involved in starting an online publication is much lower than in the offline world as well. Magazine publishers only cover 30-50% of publication costs through subscriptions so they have much more to lose in terms of hard costs by launching a mag for an untested market. Jake Ludington > what you were saying was that why not just go with inbox because you'd > rather have inbox, because it's faster and free.. but not all > of us would > rather have it in our inbox, but yet our mailbox:) > > On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > Heh what I was getting at is, if some company decided to > publish a BSD > > > magazine, I'd rather subscribe to that than something in e-mail. > > > > And what I was getting at was, unless you can somehow communicate > > those exact desires back to a prospective publisher, no company will > > simply "decide to publish a BSD magazine" because they > don't know how > > successful it will be and your desires are never fulfilled. > It seems > > a lot of people are failing to get the point around here. :-) > > > > - Jordan > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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