Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:14:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Joshua Barker <phire@jigaboos.com> To: "Jake Ludington (E-mail)" <jake@ediblehype.com> Cc: "'Michael Lucas'" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>, "'freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: BSD Magazine Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96K.1000913111352.5633A-100000@ns1.jigaboos.com> In-Reply-To: <E6B67CB27216D41195B600508BCF7A0E5211A6@edmail.ed.state.ia.us>
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Yeah, but see we offered to pay for it :) On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Ludington, Jacob wrote: > Why is everyone concerned with the traditional publishing model? Wouldn't > it make just as much sense to establish an BSD Email newsletter that > provided poeople with useful articles delivered straight to their inbox? The > authors of the articles could still get paid for their content, the > newsletter could be supported by selling targeted advertising (the same > thing that magazines do offline) and the content is already in an archivable > format that could be referenced from the web anytime. This would eliminate > printing costs meaning that the newsletter could be provided to subscribers > for free. > > If anyone is interested in pursuing this model, feel free to contact me. I > don't have the time or expertise to write the content, but I would be more > than willing to head up the launch and marketing of the newsletter. > > Jake Ludington > > jake@ediblehype.com > > > > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 10:45:21AM -0400, Chris Coleman wrote: > >> We did approach someone last year, but they said the market wasn't ready > >> yet. I don't know if it will be now or not. > > >I doubt it is, sadly. > > >The "real world" (i.e., everything not on the Web) doesn't see much in > >print about BSD. This needs to change before we see a BSD mag. > > >Remember, publishing houses half dismiss the Web, and half quake in > >their boots over it. While DN publishes some very high-quality > >pieces, it (from real-world POV) doesn't count nearly as much as the > >same number of articles in print would. > > >Moral of the story: do things the hard way, submit BSD articles to > >print magazines. They're not nearly as nice to work with as the web > >ones, but that's what we *need*. > > >Also, if anyone does start a print magazine, I want a column. :) > > ==ml > > -- > Michael Lucas > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org > http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ > Big Scary Daemons: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons > > > 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-newbies" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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