Magazine clouds

Yesterday I discovered MagCloud, which Derek Powazek says is “the future of magazine publishing”:

MagCloud enables you to publish your own magazines. All you have to do is upload a PDF and we’ll take care of the rest: printing, mailing, subscription management, and more.

Basically, it’s Lulu for magazines. And it looks pretty darn cool. At twenty cents a page, twenty pages is $4.00. Definitely more expensive than a normal magazine, but then again normal magazines are printed en masse and you can get the costs way down. Considering that this is print-on-demand, it’s not bad at all. Quality looks good, too. (I ordered a sample to see.)

I’ve been dying to start a magazine for a while (I already have the idea ready to go), and I was planning to make it completely web-based, but with MagCloud around I’m sorely tempted to include a print edition. Mmm. More to come once I get it rolling.

Way cool. Thanks for the heads up. Perhaps in the fall when my thesis and orals are behind me, I can reall learn IN Design. I found it funny that you told me at your sister’s wedding that I needed In Design and I asked you where and you said adobe made it. Then I realized my husband had CS2 which has InDesign. Anyway… This butterfly is focusing on her graduate degree flower, but I am spying the mag flower, the stained glass flower, the___ flower. Maybe I am not a butterfly but a humming bird.