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RE: Just looked it up

>So $150,000 gross? I don't know anything about the economics of magazine publishing,
>but it sounds like it could support HP.

Except that with the HiFi Critic, printing, paper, and distribution costs eat away at that
gross. You need to publish on the Web, but then you run up against the mantra that
"content wants to be free." Even an icon like HP wouldn't be able to charge $150/year
for a downloadable newsletter.

You asked in another recent message:

>Has there been piracy of Stereophile and TAS? Of course, with their subscription prices
>being what they are, they're almost free; a newsletter might be a more tempting target.

Even though our subscription price is low and we make most of Stereophile's content
available on our website free of charge (though not "day and date"), we do suffer a
piracy problem. Every issue is available from bit torrent sources within hours of it being
mailed to subscribers. One estimate was that as any as 15,000 pirated copies of
Stereophile (complete with ads) are downloaded each month. :-(

John Atkinson
Technical Editor, Stereophile

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