scooter magazine?

iv got 2 n a half grand odd in a trust fund probs bit more n am seriously contemplating makin a bike magazine for as cheap as possible n gettin it on shelfs to the consumer for as cheap as possible purely because the mags out there are shit n over priced at silly money to make a mag probs jus be sellin online till i can afford to get it on shelfs .am i looking at sill prices to get say 50 copies made of the first edition .how would i go about it ect im gunna have words with terro to see if i can pay him to design it .and obv open invitation to get people with sick enough peds to put in it .will be a long project n is literally a brain storm at the mo .
but yh
lol

 

I must admit the Auto scooter magazines are totally wank in this country....

in fact theres ony 1....that chinky scooter loving publication T.A.G :tdwn:

if you go ahead with this, I would buy a copy

 

Yeah id buy one depending on the price.
Easily fill up a double page spread with like guides to jettings, rollers etc.

You could do like PDF versions of it for starters. and im sure we could all chip in unk:

 

im thinkin basicly get it on the shelf for as cheap as possible but im seriously gonna look into this if im not lookin in the tens of thousands then i think its worth doing coz as ya say they literally are shit .advertising would hopefully pay for a lot after the mag got popular .has any one got experiance in this sort of thing eg done it as a job .im sure terro would easily be able to do a magazine its only a simple layout aint it .but as i say gonna do a lot more brainstorming and research .

 

Yeah you gota promote it alot first nibbles ? may have to do a few copies for free

If you do it do a pdf file for a few idditions maybe when you get enough hits on the website or downloads then you could push it out in the shops

You need like good enough pictures of scooters aswell not 2.0 megapixel cameras lol

when are you going to release a new eddition of the magazine?

monthly?

2 months?

you'll need to figure out where you want to spend your money. Are you paying yourself or your staff a salary? Are there server costs? Are you setting aside an advertising budget? How much will you pay your creative people? At Strange Horizons, our priorities are:

paying our server costs, because otherwise there is no magazine,
paying our creative people decently,
spending some on advertising, so that we'll be read,
maybe someday paying our staff. That last one's a nice dream, anyway.

So if terro does it for free, i will huck you up with the domain and website for free but you may need more space so then you would have to pay for 1. but yh ... go for it

 

front cover needs to look sick to adtract people, Aswell as a realistic price like £3, but youd have to print a fucking lorry load to get the costs down to realistic before bartering with the printers, ive done the getting sponsors etc for various projects


Realisticly 2.5k would just about cover editing costs to get you 1 magazine, as 1 man couldnt do a full magazines worth of photoshopping, editing & then talk to suppliers etc within a month, youd have to be working 6-8hours a day onit, printing costs to fill shelfs far and wide would run into 10's of thousands.

also 99% of magazines are edited and readied for publishing 2/3months in advance, its only the actual "breaking" news thats edited just before its ready for publication

Then places like morrisons etc would barter you down and would be skeptical to try them out


Reason why alot of magazines are £6 as there 10man armys and end up going theu publicizing agencys to get them pulished and avaliable on the shelfs everywere as the agencys have contracts with tesco's. sainsburys, petrol stations etc



P.s. if you need any help i wouldnt mind helping out tbh

 

yeah - i dont mind helping out

at college im doing a article for my college presentation

A-Levels in graphic design yeh boi

 

was a good mag while it lasted tho

 

yeah i read that on the internet was good

nibbles you shudda went to bed earlier last night

spend that money on a sick bike,

 

hhhmmm £5 a mag to break even :tdwn:

just build a bike, its easier

 

ok was jus a brain storm as i said lol im gonna do summert tho minor suggested internet mag could ask for like a 50 p subscription n its a case of editin it all ect .EASYYYYYY LOL hu the fuk sed oat bout bein easy i dont like asits itz tooooo ... EASY? LOL
ty for replies

 

Internet thing sounds good, as good as a magazine would be to do.. costs and I dont really think that theres a big enough market for it..

 

not being funny nibs, but how many peds are there out there that are magazine worthy nowadays.

 

anyone wanting to know anything about a ped should just be directed here, and spend a couple of hours reading, or for ease of use, put a few more guides into the guides section, condensed down a little bit sorta thing...

miles cheaper than making a magazine lol but still, the website idea with PDF's is good, a hell of alot cheaper to do and design too... hah, probably alot quicker too... as alot of writing can soon be made interesting with the occasional picture / right colour schemes, compared to making a magazine you'd need something that would keep people interested, yatta yatta yattaa.. list goes on i guess

 

Jebus you could fund the magazine pal. :tup:

 

or not, nibbles has more than i currently do, bearing in mind i just forked out for a car, and insuring it for my mother to fekin drive round in :wallbash: ...

but seriously Vesta, grow up..

 

vesta your getting lame these days man,

step the game up !!!