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An industry at risk
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saffakanera
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power to the people.
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The industry should move with the times, and provide their magazines online free or at a nominal charge. That way they can maintain (and undoubtedly increase) their circulation count and advertising revenue. Most of the cost of publishing a magazine is in its printing and distribution (the cover price alone does not offset these costs). They wont incur these costs at all with online distribution. They only stand to gain.
LazyLion
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Aggggh Shame! My heart pumps Custard for them!
I stopped buying mazazines years ago when CNA jacked up the prices of overseas mags to over R100.00 each.
I saw no point in buying a magazine for that much when I could buy a book or a novel for just as much.
Now they are crying somebody is cutting into their market... boohoo...
who are the pirates? The people who can't afford to pay those ridiculous prices? or the greedy companies who extort R150.00 for a magazine with a cover price of $6.95 ???
Cry me a river...
I stopped buying mazazines years ago when CNA jacked up the prices of overseas mags to over R100.00 each.
I saw no point in buying a magazine for that much when I could buy a book or a novel for just as much.
Now they are crying somebody is cutting into their market... boohoo...
who are the pirates? The people who can't afford to pay those ridiculous prices? or the greedy companies who extort R150.00 for a magazine with a cover price of $6.95 ???
Cry me a river...
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I am actually subscribed to a few US magazines that works on this principle. And every few months you need to go through the process to renew, so they can verify their circulation figures. It is much better to get the online version for free than to have to pay hundreds of rands to buy the printed version at cna. (Even though it is sometimes nice to have a printed version
)Peder
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I am soo glad this is happening, the people must have the choice not the big company's like warner and the likes, ALL they care about is money!
Edit: If we wanted printed issues we'd then buy them, but you read a mag once then its finished, and you spend R100 per mag, thats just a waste!
Edit: If we wanted printed issues we'd then buy them, but you read a mag once then its finished, and you spend R100 per mag, thats just a waste!
Turiko
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It is already happening my dear friends....
Most of my favourite magazines are on emule
Most of my favourite magazines are on emule
Thanks for the article showing us this site 
I been looking for something like this.
There is a simple solution to this problem, here is a challenge to the magazine industry. Instead of fighting it, allow it and incorporate the stats into the your advertising models.
Perhaps current issues should be banned from being circulated for free (to try to protect some of the sales revenue as well as the likes of CNA) , but once they become more than a month old, allow free circulation(electronically). I mean what happens to outdated magazines anyway... they end up in reception areas or being sold at paperweight for next to nothing. Who is going to fork out the normal price for a two month old magazine anyway. (Except for the rare cases of people ordering back copies, but these are few and far between)
Sure some people will never buy and will wait for it to become free but so what, most will still buy it as its current. Doesnt the publication industry generate most of its revenue from advertising anyway.
By allowing old outdated publications to be freely available it will open up the advertising audience,not to mention the fact that even though old magazines are uncurrent, many articles are interesting and this will prevent those interesting buts from vanishing into dustbins and give the writers even more exposure.
The irony of it is that they complain about piracy like this, yet librarys stock many magazines which you are able to take out and read for free without having to pay. Not to mention the people who go and stand in CNA and read magazines for free ( including myself)
Stop thinking in the corporate greed way and start seeing that its ok to give a free lunch. Don't fight piracy it can never be stopped, embrace it and use it to your advantage like the porn industry has done.
I been looking for something like this.There is a simple solution to this problem, here is a challenge to the magazine industry. Instead of fighting it, allow it and incorporate the stats into the your advertising models.
Perhaps current issues should be banned from being circulated for free (to try to protect some of the sales revenue as well as the likes of CNA) , but once they become more than a month old, allow free circulation(electronically). I mean what happens to outdated magazines anyway... they end up in reception areas or being sold at paperweight for next to nothing. Who is going to fork out the normal price for a two month old magazine anyway. (Except for the rare cases of people ordering back copies, but these are few and far between)
Sure some people will never buy and will wait for it to become free but so what, most will still buy it as its current. Doesnt the publication industry generate most of its revenue from advertising anyway.
By allowing old outdated publications to be freely available it will open up the advertising audience,not to mention the fact that even though old magazines are uncurrent, many articles are interesting and this will prevent those interesting buts from vanishing into dustbins and give the writers even more exposure.
The irony of it is that they complain about piracy like this, yet librarys stock many magazines which you are able to take out and read for free without having to pay. Not to mention the people who go and stand in CNA and read magazines for free ( including myself)
Stop thinking in the corporate greed way and start seeing that its ok to give a free lunch. Don't fight piracy it can never be stopped, embrace it and use it to your advantage like the porn industry has done.
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The_Unbeliever
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Agreed with Metalcore - make older copies available for free, and current publications subscription-based.
eltherza
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Change to the times or get left behind. Impossible to stop piracy, industry needs to accept that and start making their services better than piracy.
Good example is Steam. Buy a game and it's yours for life, no damaged CDs, no CD keys, always patched no "install limit"
Why not do the same for Magazines, release a single content system, subscribe and those are yours for life to download and many magazines to subscribe to, make them 1/10th the price.
But the industry will stuff that up too, the content system will be loaded with spyware, DRMware, adverts everywhere, limited amount of downloads and print, prevent you from copying your own media and the mags will be delayed by a week to allow for CNA to sell them.
Good example is Steam. Buy a game and it's yours for life, no damaged CDs, no CD keys, always patched no "install limit"
Why not do the same for Magazines, release a single content system, subscribe and those are yours for life to download and many magazines to subscribe to, make them 1/10th the price.
But the industry will stuff that up too, the content system will be loaded with spyware, DRMware, adverts everywhere, limited amount of downloads and print, prevent you from copying your own media and the mags will be delayed by a week to allow for CNA to sell them.
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Strobemeister
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I read PCFormat in the toilet. What the hell am i going to if I can't buy my mag, put a laptop in there?
lilGr
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Ebooks FTW
Gatecrasher
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Looks like www.mymagazines.com is already unavailable. !!
-Don't know if I believe this:http://www.mygazines.com/contest
-They need to add support for the discs as well
-Allow the magazine to be download as an ebook as well ... currently, each page is separate.
-They need to add support for the discs as well
-Allow the magazine to be download as an ebook as well ... currently, each page is separate.
diabolus
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Well doh, it's like did people know you can read Rapport and Sunday Times -for free- online ? But you pay R9+ for it if you buy the oversized advertisement ridden ball of paper?
Anyway, Time and The Economist has been doing this for ages, much cheaper and the best part? You can actually go and read previous versions' articles ..no additional buying etc.
However, i assume this is about PDF/Big color paged version..i don't see the point..something that fits on a webpage suits me much better...i.e. reading Gamespot instead of PcFormat...on my phone..on the toilet..
Anyway, Time and The Economist has been doing this for ages, much cheaper and the best part? You can actually go and read previous versions' articles ..no additional buying etc.
However, i assume this is about PDF/Big color paged version..i don't see the point..something that fits on a webpage suits me much better...i.e. reading Gamespot instead of PcFormat...on my phone..on the toilet..
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