On 06/06/06 20:28 +0530, Hemant Charya wrote: > Hi, > > I am Hemant Charya. I work for a major publishing house in Mumbai, India. > > We intend to make Linuxformat (http://linuxformat.co.uk/) magazine > availabe in India, at Indian prices. Linuxformat magazine is very > popular in UK . It is accompanied by a DVD (July '06 DVD contains: > Polished Mandriva spin-off PCLinuxOS, and rock-solid enterprise-ready > CentOS, KOffice 1.5, Oracle 10g XE, games and more > > As a publisher we want to learn from the Indian Linux community and > potential readers: > 1. Whether the Linux users in India like to read an international > magazine dedicated to Linux?
I would be interested, if the content warranted it. Please note that this implies actual work, as opposed to marketing releases. Product reviews have to be in depth, rather than the glorified press releases which pass for reviews in most magazines. > 2. Would they be interested in subscribing to such a magazine. I would. If your content is good enough, I can do without the DVD. Think DDJ, rather than PC Quest. > 3. What would be the most the most attractive cover-price in Indian > Rupees? (The internatonal edition of Linuxformat is available in > select bookstores of Mumbai. A single issue costs an exorbitant 600+ > Rupees). > My ideal price would be ~ 100 INR or so, for content and few ads (less than 10% of space, and all advertising in a single area. See Nature for an example of how the ads are put in a separate section.) Keep in mind that the magazine budget competes with a book budget, so your content needs to outweigh the benefits of the book. Devdas Bhagat -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
