[plug] starting a linux mag?

[John Knight]

Make lunch, not war.

>
> > 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


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