[plug] starting a linux mag?

[John Knight]

Well I'd be pushing for making a magazine, not starting a hobby (NO TIME AT 
ALL FOR TWADDLE LIKE THAT). We most certainly have a market for a magazine, 
because it's not about having another to read, but having a mag to read that 
doesn't cost $18 dollars because it's imported, it seems rather defeatist to 
just let the idea of a local mag go, right?

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.
>
>
>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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