Comments on: The Future of Magazines http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/07/the-future-of-magazines.html thoughts, questions, original art and content and links to stuff we think is of interest; a group blog dedicated to pretty much everything. by people you would like to meet at a party; proof of intelligent life on the planet; inhabited by Internet hunter gatherers in the pre-apocalyptic realm; a destination that offers constellations of stimulating links to popular (and not so popular) culture; a group blog dedicated to culture: art, design, music, food, architecture, science, travel, movies, books, typography, politics, etc.; inclusive of geezers!; a delightful mixture of orange words and pictures of well, the insides of a stuffed animal–delightful all the same; the social network I never thought I’d join. Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:43:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Sheila Ryan http://www.clusterflock.org/2008/07/the-future-of-magazines.html/comment-page-1#comment-181070 Sheila Ryan Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:02:44 +0000 http://www.clusterflock.org/?p=11667#comment-181070 I learned of MagCloud just recently (while loitering around <a href="http://chrisglass.com/" rel="nofollow">Chris Glass's place</a>) and have not spent much time at the site itself, but I am wondering abut the economics of the thing. Production costs are currently set at $0.20/page, and I believe that there is a shipping-and-handling charge of $1.40 during this Beta period. Let's say I want to produce a 96-page magazine. That's $20.60 per issue, assuming I am a devil-may-care sort who opts not to tack on a mark-up for MagCloud to pass along to me. Oh, heck, let's say that I do -- bring the purchaser's cost up to $25.00. (That's less than a 15% mark-up.) Okay, let's say I start out cautiously with a quarterly. I'm thinking I'd better pack my magazine with watermelon sex and nipple hypocrisy. And hairy vaginas. Though I guess my name is a kind of selling point, too. I learned of MagCloud just recently (while loitering around Chris Glass’s place) and have not spent much time at the site itself, but I am wondering abut the economics of the thing. Production costs are currently set at $0.20/page, and I believe that there is a shipping-and-handling charge of $1.40 during this Beta period. Let’s say I want to produce a 96-page magazine. That’s $20.60 per issue, assuming I am a devil-may-care sort who opts not to tack on a mark-up for MagCloud to pass along to me. Oh, heck, let’s say that I do — bring the purchaser’s cost up to $25.00. (That’s less than a 15% mark-up.) Okay, let’s say I start out cautiously with a quarterly.

I’m thinking I’d better pack my magazine with watermelon sex and nipple hypocrisy. And hairy vaginas. Though I guess my name is a kind of selling point, too.

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