On 10/23/10, Jon Nordby wrote: > On 23 October 2010 10:55, ginger coons <gin...@adaptstudio.ca> 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. > This information should be readily available on your Pledgie page. To > actually get donations, it is fundamental to communicate what people > are helping to achieve by donating. Some sneak peaks/teasers might be > beneficial too.
Bump :-) P.S. There is a space missing between ", blog." and "Contact us." at http://libregraphicsmag.com/ Alexandre Prokoudine http://libregraphicsworld.org _______________________________________________ CREATE mailing list CREATE@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/create