[plug] West Australian Linux Review

[Peter Robinson]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, John Summerfield wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, skribe wrote:
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> > On 09-Aug-98 Leon Brooks wrote:
> > > But starting even a small magazine for a wide distributorship is far
> > > from trivial.
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> > Agreed.  You're looking at several thousand dollars in up-front capital most of
> > which will go on printing and distribution costs.  It will likely take a year
> > or more for you to even break even.  If you're serious about this and before you
> > outlay any money try an offline market research.  Go visit 20 or so (t
> 
> I think the Australian took around 20 years. True, the scale of the
> operation is a little differnet.
> 
> You could consider a web site that's run as  magazine: regular issues. I
> know of 2-3 featuring OS/2 but I've not yet found any for Linux.
> 
> Readership in this case would be worldwide.

An example of a site such as this would be Linux Gazette. Check out
http://www.linuxgazette.com/

Peter