Re: [Fsfe-uk] Free Software Magazine

[Tom Chance]

On Wednesday 26 Jan 2005 16:59, Alex Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 16:30 +0000, Tom Chance wrote:
> > Incidentally, if you are connected to any libraries, including those in
> > schools and universities, you can help get the magazine distributed. They
> > need a few hundred subscribers for the venture to be financially viable.
> > Just email them if you can help.
>
> I wonder why they don't sublicense it out - $12 is a fair amount of
> money even if the dollar is fairly cheap, and to charge Europeans more
> than US seems mad (I thought they were Italian?!)
>
> If they sublicensed, maybe franchised printing nationally, that would
> seem a better way to get off the ground quickly - there a loads of
> printers in this country who can do one-off runs of this type (search
> for 'catalogue printer' or similar). I guess it depends on how many
> subscribers they have initially though - I'm presuming they want to do
> one world-wide run in the States and take the hit on airmail/subs fees.
> Even splitting continents would be good though - if the mag were €7
> PAYG, I would almost certainly subscribe.
>
> That said, the electronic pricing is much more sensible, $3 a PDF I can
> live with. It would be interesting to know how many electronic
> subscribers they would need to finance stuff though; I'm guessing there
> isn't a whole lot of margin there.

I'm sure they'd appreciate it if you emailed them suggesting this. I don't 
know why they're doing it this way, I'm just an author who gets sent requests 
for help with subscriptions ;-)

Regards,
Tom