Why not just sell them? <div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 24, 2010 2:25 AM, "Alexandre Prokoudine" <<a href="mailto:alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com">alexandre.prokoudine@gmail.com</a>> wrote: > On 10/23/10, Jon Nordby wrote: > >> On 23 October 2010 10:55, ginger coons wrote: >>> I can indeed shed some light. We're planning to print a 96 page >>> publication, >>> half colour, at Mardigrafe in Montreal. It costs $7,403 CAD to print 1000 >>> copies. For double that price, we could do 5000 copies, but $15,000 >>> dollars >>> seems like an unrealistic goal right now. The extra money built into the >>> goal is there with the intention of having a little wiggle room, as well >>> as >>> being able to finance shipping large boxes of magazines, which is the >>> heart >>> of our distribution strategy. Essentially, within the number of copies we >>> have, we'll gladly send a box to anyone who is attending an event and >>> wants >>> to hand some out. This issue, we're hoping to send some along to FOSSASIA >>> and I'll be taking some to the HTMlles festival (a digital art fest in >>> Montreal) as well as on classroom visits to design schools. We'll also be >>> offering copies for sale online. At the moment, I'm looking into order >>> fulfilment services which might be suited to doing this job. >>> Hope that gives an idea of printing goals and distribution strategy. > > Okay, thanks, Ginger :) But pretty please add that to both pledgie and > lgmag pages. > >> Some sneak peaks/teasers might be beneficial too. > > Yes, a couple of good looking spreads never do a harm :) > > Alexandre Prokoudine > <a href="http://libregraphicsworld.org">http://libregraphicsworld.org</a> > _______________________________________________ > CREATE mailing list > <a href="mailto:CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org">CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create</a> </div>