phinsup

I gave this a little thought at one time or another, there are various vehicle specific magazines on the market in the US and I don't see much reason why a rotary engine magazine would not have some following. The fact of the matter is, a good majority of the magazines on the stand are printed, owned and distributed by a handful of companies, so to tart your own magazine is one hell of a task and one that could not be accomplished without some serious cash being put up.



Let's do a quick rundown and base this on a magazine that ONLY has a subscription based distribution, to try to get on the shelves, just one magazine would run the costs out of site.



First you would need 3 to 10 writers with various views, they aren't going to work for free, let's say they work part time to start and let's say we only hire 5, monthly outlay wouls be about $10,000. Now we need someone to proof, set the pages, etc, etc... this would be a full time job, $3,000 next we need someone to travel around and take pictures... or now maybe we just have them submitted, so let's stick that aside, let's assume that subscription cost is $15.00 a year, for 12 issues, we spend 55 cents per issue to mail them and plus prolly another $1.00 to have them printed, that's if we manage to do a good volume, say 20,000 subscribers, now we clear 25 cents per issue. That's $5,000 a month minus our labor of prolly $20,000 after we hire the rest of the staff, so we're $15,000 in the whole. This could be made up with advertisers, but it would be months before we got any, maybe even over a year, so you'd need prolly $250,000 to $300,000 to throw at it, plus the fact that it would be highly unlikely we'd get 20,000 subscribers without having any magazine on the shelf, let's say we need to get them on the shelf it would prolly cost another $1.00 per copy, so you'd need another $250,000 to $300,000 to get the mag up and running.



So somewhere between $500,000 and $1,000,000 and you've got yourself a rotaryworld magazine and hopefully enough sponsors to start paying back your losses. I'm all for it if you've got the cash!

Srce

Rotary's Boosted, you know, like Alcoholics Annonymous.

Fd3BOOST

There is in fact a rotary magazine coming out in November sometime called RX Tuner magazine.

How do I know you ask??

I already wrote an article for it.

So now that I contributed you know its gonna be good

It should be available to the general public before Christmas.

Wait till you guys see it. Its gonna be just what you wanted.

I have pics of the cover but Im not sharing

Actually as soon as the"gag" order I'm sorta under is lifted I'll share the details.

D.

phinsup

bastid

teknics

yea setachrome mentioned it a couple posts up there.



kevin.

rfreeman27

cant wait dave.

FikseRxSeven

i cant wait to see that cover that you're talkin about dave

Jerk_Racer

Hey phinsup - the guy that makes this new magazine (see below) lives in Sammamish if I'm not mistaken. Small world. Well, anyway....he would know what it takes to make a magazine as he's doing it.



Driving Sports Magazine





It's in some bookstores such as B. Dalton and B&N. If you see it, check out page 11. Ummm, no particular reason.

Jerk_Racer

BTW - He's the same guy that heads up the Computer Source Magazine that you can pick up free at most Puget Sound bookstores.



Computer Source

Sinful7

what's on page 11?