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Please add a way for me to subscribe rather than buy these one by one. I don't want to "buy" monthly, I want to receive monthly. ;) Editing to add: Even if Ma
by ekanes 16y ago
Please add a way for me to subscribe rather than buy these one by one. I don't want to "buy" monthly, I want to receive monthly. ;)
Editing to add: Even if Magcloud doesn't have a way to do this, it might be worth your while (especially for cash flow!) to use something else like Paypal, buy them in bulk from Magcloud at a discount and send them out yourself. You could require a 1-year subscription to make it more worth your effort (and the bulk purchasing might mean you make more money on the sale of the magazine itself)
2nd edit: Thinking about this some more, the magazine is 40 pages long (yay!) but at $.20/page you're making only $1/sale in gross margins (boo!). If you were able to accept yearly subscriptions and fulfill from the US (I know you're in Malaysia) you could boost gross margins to $3/sale, in addition to the cash flow benefits. You would be adding fulfillment costs, but it might be worthwhile...
AND you could ship internationally if you wanted! :)
- spydez 16y agoSounds like you bought issue #1, so I'll ask: How's the print quality?
- ekanes 16y agoPretty fantastic. The paper is thick and the ink doesn't come off on your hands. It feels a little bit like a collectors item, at least for geeks like me. His simple design aesthetic is so good that my other magazines feel jarring and cluttered. It feels like how a magazine should be.
- BrandonM 16y agoSee this thread on issue 1, where several people comment on the quality: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394526 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394526 Specifically, this comment is pretty representative: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394730 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1394730
- lincolnq 16y agoI bought issue #1, and I was moderately impressed -- it did feel like a magazine, but not quite at the professional level. Almost, though. I was quite happy with it and I am buying this one too.
- simonk 16y agoActually you can create a group order and do this and get the discount. The only extra work would be collecting the money each month. They handle the shipping, although this doesn't help with international orders.
- almost 16y agoYes please! I would also like to subscribe. And please do charge more, I'd like to think you're getting something out of this!
- jackowayed 16y agoAdvertising. Almost all magazines roughly bring in enough to cover printing and distribution from the cost to readers. Since they keep the price that low, they get more readers, and thus more ad revenue. This issue had 2 full-page ads and a half-page ad, by my count. According to the rate card (PDF: http://hackermonthly.com/ratecard http://hackermonthly.com/ratecard) that's $1300 worth of ads (though there's an "introductory advertising offer" that they probably all got). That's pretty good given how early-stage the thing is.
- almost 16y agoOh, of course, that makes more sense.
- bearwithclaws 16y agoThe print subscription is definitely on its way. I'm just trying to figure out the best way to do it right rather than just dive in. Stay tuned (most probably in the middle of the month).
- Sukotto 16y agoInstead of dealing with annual subscriptions, I think you'd be better off making it easy for people to sign up for a recurring monthly charge to paypal or whatever. Annual subscriptions have too many negatives for the time required to handle them.
- sunir 16y agoOne way to do this relatively quickly. Create a Formstack sign up form which creates recurring FreshBooks invoices. Use FreshBooks and Authorize.net to manage the recurring payments. If you don't want the hassle of using Authorize.net, just use PayPal, but the invoice has to be manually paid every month. http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/06/30/create-recurring-invoices-with-formstack/ http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2010/06/30/create-recurring-i... Cheers, Sunir, FreshBooks