Python Magazine exists!

Lucas Raab pythongnome at hotmail.com
Sun Jun 27 11:36:10 EDT 2004


But I'm sure that people who write the articles would rather see the word
spread about Python, than getting paid. Just my two cents.

"Mark" <mark at pyzine.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.140.1088176199.27577.python-list at python.org...
> Hello Ognen,
>
> On Jun 25, 2004, at 10:35 AM, Ognen Duzlevski wrote:
>
> > I went to see your magazine and it looks pretty nice. However, you do
> > publish quarterly and in my humble opinion, a
> > yearly subscription of 49 Euros is crazy.
>
> It all comes down to being able to pay the bills now doesn't it.
>
> Unlike the "old Py" where authors we now have have significant
> costs for editing and writing (and the occasional design work as well).
>
> We refuse to run a Magazine where we can not compensate authors for
> writing about Python.
>
> We expect that for the next 1 to 2 years we will be publishing at a
> loss (this
> is based on our experience with ZopeMag) but that eventually we will
> break
> even and (oh god) maybe even make a modest profit. This would be
> impossible
> for us to do for less than 49 Euros.
>
> But feel free to call us crazy! :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
>
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