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You need a couple more options for your poll. Yes, I think that a magazine devoted to the art of pen making would be an excellent thing to have. I'd like one each month and if it were only four times a year there is no way I'd pay $25.00 for it.[^]
 
Originally posted by Johnathan
<br />You need a couple more options for your poll. Yes, I think that a magazine devoted to the art of pen making would be an excellent thing to have. I'd like one each month and if it were only four times a year there is no way I'd pay $25.00 for it.[^]
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How much would you be willing to pay for 12 issues a year?
 
I wouldn't subscribe in the beginning, but I would be willing to buy at least the first single copy, and if it contained quality material, I would then subscribe.
 
I suspect that it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to come up with enough new, unique, and interesting material to support a monthly magazine. In addition, I don't know what a magazine could give me that I am not already getting here and on the other pen forums??
 
I think that it's a good idea and if things work out I would toss twenty five bucks for a subscription. Very few things start out great from the very beginning, I think that something like this will take a few issues to really kick it in gear. I think that a magazine would do wonders to really get our craft up and going. This is a way that so many others could learn, and get excited about pen turning. The more publisity we can get the bigger the craft will grow. I also am not worried about too many people getting involoved because not everyone is going to be a master pen turner.

Wayne
 
Originally posted by mrcook4570
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Originally posted by Randy_
<br />I don't know what a magazine could give me that I am not already getting here and on the other pen forums??
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Reading material while on the throne [:D]
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I'm already about three months behind. My G/F accuses me of making "unnecessary" trips just to read. If the backlog gets much larger, I may have to actually start doing that!!![:D][:D]
 
Originally posted by Ron in Drums PA
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Originally posted by Johnathan
<br />You need a couple more options for your poll. Yes, I think that a magazine devoted to the art of pen making would be an excellent thing to have. I'd like one each month and if it were only four times a year there is no way I'd pay $25.00 for it.[^]
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How much would you be willing to pay for 12 issues a year?
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Well, I get many magazines each month and at $25.00 per 4, that's $6.25 each! I don't think my TIME, or anything else for that matter, costs that much.
I would like to see 12 issues a year. I think around $4.50 -$4.95 would be a good price. I really don't know what all is involved. How high a quality it is. If the thing is going to look more like a made-at-home newsletter, I would pay something like $2.00-$2.50 each. I hope this helps.
 
This feels like de je vous all over again. A magazine is not sustained by it's readers. Advertising is what pays. But advertisers pay based on the number of readers. As a percentage of the market, pen makers don't total enough people to make a statistical blip. I have started, or helped start, numerous publications over the years. A big given is that new ideas and contributions fizzle out quickly. Good material for a quartely magazine will be difficult to find. I believe that an annual publication would succeed as a viable entity. But more frequently than that and we (those of us here and at the other pen forums) would only be re-reading what we post daily. Without freshness there wouldn't be an audience. No audience, no advertising, no publication.
 
I agree with Frank. I think an Annual issue would be good, with the articles and instructions from that year plus these new "Behind the Lathe" articles as well as articles on things like Ammo pens, anything that was/is a hot topic (but only about pens) for the year would make for good articles, Fountain pen use & care, etc. But there would be a lot of work here getting the articles ready, layout, selling ad space, getting a printer, mailing, etc., etc, etc.
 
A once a year mag, like some suggested, would be a cool thing, if you can get someone to publish it. A concern for me is, would it turnout to be a "Best of IAP"?
 
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