Mag Publishing for Cheap

July 10th, 2008

MagCloud:

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.

It costs you nothing to publish a magazine on MagCloud. To buy a magazine costs 20ยข per page, plus shipping. For example, a 20-page magazine would be four bucks plus shipping. And you can make money! You set your issue price and all proceeds above the base price go to you. Shipping is a flat $1.40/copy (USPS first class mail) for quantities 1-9, or a flat $13 for quantities from 10-100 (per box of 10-100).

I really wish this service was around way back when the idea of Gureala first entered my mind. Back when I wanted to bring the vision to life in the form of a monthly or bi-montly arts & culture mag, but settled on Moveable Type after peeping the costs of printing and distribution. I really have to tip my hat to HP on this one (yep-yep, MagCloud is an HP Labs creation). Lots of possibilities here. I’m really excited to see how bloggers will take to this service, as well as the types of publications that we’ll begin to in the MagCloud library (there’s already a nice little collection forming) over the next several months. Call me corny, but I’d really like to see some blog year in review-type pubs come out of this…crazy possibilities. What say you?

Update: Thanks for the publisher invite!

In Arts & Culture, Technology 

5 Responses to “Mag Publishing for Cheap”

  1. AD Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    Welcome back!

  2. Gureala Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 4:19 pm

    Thanks a lot, man! It’s good to be back behind the boards. I’ll try not to go away for too long anytime soon.

  3. Abadeu Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:12 pm

    Peace, Mike,

    I wonder what you be doing on the net to find all these real post.

    Anywhos, hit me up, got something up at the site. Check me out, tryna get on that blog roll of yours.!

    Enjoy
    Abadeu

  4. Abadeu Says:
    July 11th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    I say yeah about the mag, lets get together and drop something

  5. Gureala Says:
    July 12th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

    Whats goin on, Deu…thanks for dropping by man. I see you’ve made quite a bit of progress with your blog. I’ll hit you up.

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