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From: fyl@ssc.com (Phil Hughes)
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Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 18 Dec 1995 05:51:46 GMT
Organization: SSC, Inc,. Seattle, WA
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I missed the beginning of this thread (I was off in California speaking on
Linux) but it looks related to what I am doing/SSC does.
When I decided to start Linux Journal is was a big chance. A few issues
into publishing LJ and significantly in the hole financially I thought the
chance was bigger than what SSC could afford. But, about a year later, we
started to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Today LJ is paying its
own bills.
That said, for a similar magazine to happen for FreeBSD (and we would be
interested in publishing it) we need to see the same sort of support as
Linux Journal received. From the beginning we had advertisers that had
faith and we had readers that had faith. I think we have proved that SSC
can publish magazines (we just started WEBsmith, a magazine for WWW
developers) so it should be easier than when we started our first
magazine.
If you want to see a FreeBSD Journal you need to convince a publisher (we
are certainly interested, other publishers may be as well) that FreeBSD
has the necessary following to make it happen. As for numbers, we are
talking $20,000/issue minimum to even consider it and the revenue needs to
quickly get to 2-3 times that number for the magazine to break even.
Put another way, 1000 new subscribers each month and 20 pages of
advertising is in the ballpark.
If you think you can convince me this can happen, go for it. I really
would like to see something like this happen but with WEBsmith just
starting plus the Orion Firewall system and other Zebu-related projects I
don't have the time or ambition to do the research right now.
--
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)PUBS-REF
>>> Publishers of pocket references for UNIX, C, ..., Linux Journal <<<
E-mail: phil@ssc.com Phone: (206)782-7733 Fax: (206)782-7191
SSC/Linux Journal web site: http://www.ssc.com/