SF Magazine

[Kappa Brandon]

Why not? The stuff on this site is way more informative than anything i've read in esquire or GQ and many of the posters on the forum are excellent writers. Has anyone ever thought about this?

 

[chorse123]

Are you loopy?

Have you seen what's happened to ad supported print media in the last year? And anyway, SF excels at what it is.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Everyone that wants to invest in a starting up a new print media company right now, raise your hands.

EDIT: Oops. Chorse beat me to it.

 

[MetroStyles]

Originally Posted by Kappa Brandon

Why not? The stuff on this site is way more informative than anything i've read in esquire or GQ and many of the posters on the forum are excellent writers. Has anyone ever thought about this?

The willing-to-pay customer base would be tiny and not worth the cost. An e-zine, maybe, but again - hard to generate enough traffic to make the necessary ad revenue.

Hard to compete with flashier, mass-market publications like GQ, Esquire, Details, etc.

 

[Cary Grant]

Just try charging for entrance to this forum for one month and you'd get your answer.

 

[embowafa]

Originally Posted by Cary Grant

Just try charging for entrance to this forum for one month and you'd get your answer.

I'd pay a nominal amount to be a part of this forum. If you take it seriously and visit/contribute regularly it pays for itself many times over.

 

[bluemagic]

There would be no benefit to SF being a magazine.

 

[Mark from Plano]

Michael K. over at Fedora Lounge tried to start up Classic Style magazine a couple of years ago and had to shut down after a few issues due to lack of advertising support.

 

[A Canuker]

Classic style. I got a sub but only recieved 2 issues before that went under. I think the people came to the board because I cannot think of where else I might have heard about it. Or just read the above posting.

 

[acidboy]

with the way we diss cole-haan, kenneth cole, armani, d&g, prada, etc... an SF magazine is gonna be blacklisted by advertisers before its first run.