Dream On Magazine Poll

[MetaFox]

[quote author=fackue link=board=homebrew;num=1088700296;start=15#19 date=07/26/04 at 21:02:02]Kinda sad to hear he's selling his collection for money. How much is he looking to raise?

I'm sure donations wouldn't be a problem.[/quote]Around $3000. Donations are no good - I won't take money for a product I intend to sell - even if chances are I'll just break even.

I've got some family issues I have to deal with first that require my money, so I'm going to understandably have to put this on the backburner for now.

[fackue]

Wow, that's a lot of money...

[MetaFox]

[quote author=fackue link=board=homebrew;num=1088700296;start=15#21 date=07/27/04 at 00:17:18] Wow, that's a lot of money...[/quote]
Yes indeed. I decided to go the 100% professional route after I saw that news had spread all over the internet.

I was originally going to go with a $700 black and white print, with stapled paper. The decision to go newstand quality increased the price dramatically. I've got no qualms about discussing finances here, since this is and always will be a community project:

The magazine itself is $4500 for 5000 pieces including shipping. The included disc is roughly $1 a piece after shipping, so 5000 magazines and 5000 discs would cost $9500. I'm not going to get all the discs pressed at the same time, since I don't have nearly $10,000 for a magazine run - and I have no way to make that kind of money at the moment.

I'm planning on an initial run of 5000 magazines and 1000 CDs - meaning $5500. After that stock runs low, I can order more CDs with the money made back from magazine sales to buy more CDs. Once the 5000 magazines are sold though, that's most likely going to be it - so it will be a limited run.

It's an insanely high amount of money I'm going to be putting into this, but the outcome will be fantastic. People have been asking me what the quality will be, and stating that they are sitting on the fence as to the fact of whether or not it will be amaturish.

I can state right now - it's going to be as professional as any magazine you can pick up off the news stands, so you don't have to worry about quality.

[Eric]

that sounds sweet i love the dcemu scene and support it all the way when and if i see these magazines at my fav store microplay i will pick one up

Go dreamcast 2004

Eric

[Darksaviour69]

meta i'm sure u have made your mind up already, but why dony u have two versions of the mag, one with the CD and one without and charge $1 more for the CD. might help cover your cost better!

i remember saturn power only some times had a free CD with it. when there was no Cd it was £2.50, when an issue came out with a FREE Demo disk, it was £5.00