[plug] starting a linux mag?

[Colin Muller]

> Maybe consider making it a webzine at first while you're looking for
> a distributer.  Of course, that makes it more difficult to make the
> transition to dead-tree format further down the track.

The Perl Review[1] and Perl Journal[2] are publishing in PDF, meaning
that if they get to the point of dead tree publishing, they already
have it in print-ready form. There's not much sense in publishing to
PDF instead of HTML if the kind of article you publish is suited to
on-screen reading, but if you're publishing relatively long,
technically dense articles, which people are likely to print out to
read in any case, it's a reasonable way to go.

I doubt there's much space left in the market for another general or
newsy Linux magazine, but perhaps one aimed at developers and
sysadmins would be sufficiently differentiated to establish a niche,
even if a small one initially.  One like that would also, as it
happens, fit the profile of publishing the kind of article I decribe
above (think Dr Dobbs for Linux). 

[1] http://www.theperlreview.com/
[2] http://www.tpj.com/

Colin