Topic: Pre-order Bitcoin Magazine - Quality control, final revisions on proofs - page 40. (Read 93728 times)

Subscribers could order two copies, giving one as a gift.

My other idea would take a little more effort, but doable. There's plenty of niche Brick & Mortar outfits that this type of periodical would cater to their clientele without having to go through a magazine distribution center. Forgive me for not offering up some or even one example, but would others here be so kind as to give us examples?

Then you have those stand-alone newspaper/magazine racks that display only their periodical, albeit most of them are for free, but some are for sale. I'm not sure what the percentage payout would be, but I envision something like this at 7-11's (for example purpose only) where the proprietor has a vested interested in having these sell out. What doesn't sell, is returned to the distributor, in this case would be you--possible at your cost. But with a little math (assuming you're good it at), you'll be able to calculate your ROI as a whole.

Another route, is MLM or direct market the mags. Or put in a referral system of sorts.

This is just a little snag, one which can be overcome provided extra thought and effort is put into it.

God's speed,

~Bruno~

+1

IMO would be the best to come out with the digital and the saddle stitch version at first. Only selling it online. This way you also have a idea of the volume you need to print from all the preorders.
After some months when all the BN stuff is figured out. (And you made a small profit from the online selling) You can make the transition to the better perfect binding and release it in stores with issue number #001. So all the issues before the first BN magazine is kind of a soft launch (This way their is room for change and maybe even helpful input form the community to do some fine tuning before the official launch).

Just my 2 censts  

There is a third option which is to simply postpone the first issue for a couple of months. I'm sure the people who preordered will understand because there is actually a good reason for that.

My other comment is regarding the amount of issues and I was especially shocked to see the comment on increasing the amount of pages to 100+. I don't think you commented on my post earlier but I really, really recommend rethinking the amount of magazines you plan to publish each year and the amount of content in one magazine. Here is the post: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.712004

What tends to happen to many niche magazines is that they have great content in the beginning but then they have to come up with fillers which can be disastrous. I don't want this magazine to die like that.

UPDATE: Good news and bad news ladies and gentlemen.

Good news

Barnes and Noble's supplier is working with me right now to get everything ready for distribution (and guess what, the manager I'm working with saw the Good Wife episode and is very interested in Bitcoin  ) and it looks like we'll be hitting the majority of the stores. We need to do our own budgeting for additional advertising packages etc to make it attractive for the stores to carry it, but that's all boring business stuff we're taking care of.


Bad news

The entire process could take several months. As anyone with basic math skills could figure out by now, printing out 2,000 issues is probably not cheap, and we only get the revenue of the issues that are actually sold, the rest of the issues being thrown in the garbage by the stores. This means that we have an interesting choice to make on design+quality. Should we:

• Go as cheap as possible for printing quality and binding until we sign the paperwork for distribution by major stores, at which time we have all the bells and whistles (and even up it to 100 pages); or
• Do we treat the community as our main target, run on the revenue we get from the community only, and see if we last 3 months on that alone.

It's one of those difficult management decisions, and I'm the one who has to make it so I'd like some kind, non-judgmental, and constructive advice on the matter.


P.S. My own personal feelings (which don't count for shit btw in the face of the entire community, i.e. our livelihood) are that we should run lean for 3 months, secure the magazine on a small platform in the community only, then come bursting out the gates in style in 3 months time with the more expensive binding styles (look up saddlestitch vs perfect binding and remind yourself that the difference is $3,500 for us at current volume)

this looks awesome, just ordered a copy!

Nice, thank you Matthew, will order right away! :-)

Ente

I wish you the best for this magazine whose time has come. I am waiting for the clarification about overseas shipping to order the first issue.

Thanks mate. It was my fault-- somehow the little ticker for "Digital goods" had been clicked. It doesn't matter to the actual item though, the invoice for the item is saved just the same and we go off the title of it not the radio selectors. Everyone should be fine.

I ordered some time ago, I don't recall seeing it back then, and I was also contacted by bit-pay to clarify shipping country, so I think Im good. Just wanted to see if I could replicate that message Ente got, and I could, so I thought I would share it, just in case.

Fixed! Thanks for letting me know. 

This is how I found that bug:

http://bittalk.tv/?page_id=314
click "INTERNATIONAL": "12 Issues (Print + Digital)"
being forwarded to bit-pay

Even there, already, comes
"No physical items will be shipped on this order. "
(right under "Save Changes")

I went on and filled my info, next page that line came as well.

I guessed maybe I overread something in this thread, thats why I asked..

Want screenshots or anything to see what exactly goes on?
I can just go on with my order too.

Ente

That's so strange. Where are you guys seeing this exactly? When I go to the last customer invoice, I see this:




EDIT: Easiest solution. PM me the info you used to order and I'll just make sure it went through so that we know not to worry

I think he meant on bit-pay, I just checked, and it's correct, if you select the physical magazine (only worked if I selected 1x12 month international subscription) it says "No physical items will be shipped on this order." under the "Save Changes" link/button.

Haha good call.


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Finally able to place my order.  Looking forward to reading it, and not having the magazine ruined if it rains. 

Absolutely fantastic!
I was just about to order a 12month pack, printed, intl.
It says "Nothing will be shipped for this order." on checkout, is that to be ignored?

Ente

Purchased. Looking forward to receiving first issue.

sorry, I just realized I'm dumb...