That's a pretty encouraging start - I was going to subscribe but the rate seems exorbitant. Is this just a symptom of small-scale publishing, of crowdfunding, a lack of advertising or all of the above?
We've done our best to match or undercut out main competition, while at the same time providing more pages. The advertising market for Linux magazines isn't great, so none of them get much money from that, but of course it does take up space, so each page of adverts is one page less content you have to pay for (We have few).
Yearly subscriptions start from £38 (digital), which we think is pretty good considering how much we pack into each issue (take a look here for the contents list of issue 3: http://www.linuxvoice.com/issue-3-is-out/).
Print subs are obviously more expensive, mostly due to the cost of postage.
The cover price is £5.99 (around 10 USD) which seems to be about the same as any other UK computer magazine.
I had a quick flick through to the third issue to get a rough estimate of how many pages of ads there were and...erm, I couldn't find any except an EFF ad on the inside cover. I don't know if that means they're struggling to find advertisers until they're more established but frankly I'm happy to pay a bit more to have more content pages, given the choice.
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That's a pretty encouraging start - I was going to subscribe but the rate seems exorbitant. Is this just a symptom of small-scale publishing, of crowdfunding, a lack of advertising or all of the above?
We've done our best to match or undercut out main competition, while at the same time providing more pages. The advertising market for Linux magazines isn't great, so none of them get much money from that, but of course it does take up space, so each page of adverts is one page less content you have to pay for (We have few).
Yearly subscriptions start from £38 (digital), which we think is pretty good considering how much we pack into each issue (take a look here for the contents list of issue 3: http://www.linuxvoice.com/issue-3-is-out/).
Print subs are obviously more expensive, mostly due to the cost of postage.
The cover price is £5.99 (around 10 USD) which seems to be about the same as any other UK computer magazine.
I had a quick flick through to the third issue to get a rough estimate of how many pages of ads there were and...erm, I couldn't find any except an EFF ad on the inside cover. I don't know if that means they're struggling to find advertisers until they're more established but frankly I'm happy to pay a bit more to have more content pages, given the choice.