Magazines are biting it and blogs are taking over the world, right? Well now a team of publishing devotees wants to bring to books what blogs brought to the web. User-managed, small press magazines, for us by us (and I'm not talking about that heedious ghetto gear, FUBU). Now anyone with a computer can have a magazine and MagCloud will print, bind, ship to "subscribers," and send you the money (that you've deemed your mag will cost). The best part? At just under $.20 a page, it's actually accessible. I really hope this company takes off and we start seeing well-made mags for social groups, protests, community newsletters and anyone else wanting a voice.
Sure there's the whole tree-killing aspect of physical publishing, but what other harm is there? These self-made mags won't need to subsist on advertising dollars so it's safe to assume they'll be devoid of content that favors big spenders. (How many D&G spreads do we really need to see in every magazine, right?).
Do you think this is good for publishing or bad? Do you think it's blogging for the "real" journalists who won't let print die, or is it just another way to get words out?
Either way, I'm a fan. Look forward to "3 Pages on Why Laura Rules Magazine" any day now. I'll sell it to you at cost for 60 cents.
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