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Do-It-Yourself Magazines, Cheaply Slick
- cwan 18y agoWould be publishers will quickly realize that the actual printing is a small part of overall distribution. It's great news though that the barriers continue to fall - I suspect that the applications will be for more generalized print applications (e.g. small run brochures, etc.).
- rokhayakebe 18y agoThere is noting cheap about 20 cents per page.
- jeremymims 18y agoTo print a single copy of your average 110 page publication with this service would cost $22.00. Perhaps this will be a novelty (Look Dad, we made a magazine about your life for your 50th birthday!), but I don't see how this is a viable option for any regular publication that hopes to make money. For reference, a magazine with a circulation of around 100,000 will pay around $1.00 to print and mail each copy.
- ShabbyDoo 18y agoMy wife's friend runs a small business that produces magazines for upscale shopping malls. I can see her using this service for sample production or prototyping. Even though the per-book cost is high, the pay-off from increasing the probability of a sale is even higher. However, she would use a traditional printer for actual production printing. It doesn't seem like there's much of a market for this service beyond prototyping though.