Last month, the publisher was set to launch a subscription version of its Sports Illustrated iPad app, where consumers would download the magazines via Apple’s iTunes but would pay Time Inc. directly. But Apple rejected the app at the last minute, forcing the Time Warner (TWX) unit to sell single copies, using iTunes as a middleman...
This is puzzling, actually. I wonder if Apple has a solid reason for this and similar instances (though there are actually a few customers, like Amazon, who are allowed to sell from their app), or if it is just their control-freakishness? Everybody wants subscriptions, it's convenient for readers and profitable for publishers, so surely it would be to Apple's advantage to work out some kind of deal with huge customers like Time.
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HP will publish and monetize your magazine, but at the moment they insist it be given away free for the iPad: that's almost British in it's spirit of compromise:
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When may I expect the first issue of 'DOMAI: the art magazine for trash with class'? The WVs are getting really spooky: "backer"
"WVs"??
I'd love to publish a mag, but it would be a *lot* of work. So until further notice, the blog and Domai News have to suffice.
"WVs"??
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"I'd love to publish a mag, but it would be a *lot* of work.
Farm it out. Offer it to a layout jockey on a "see if this turns into anything worthwhile" basis. Even if you handed your total revenue over to the layout person, the exposure (pun intended) would be worth testing as a revenue generator for your websites.
I just counted 57 free naked pictures between DOMAI and GoddessNudes: I could make a magazine out of those (that is neither an offer nor a proposal--your looking for somebody good but underemployed, and I am busy atm). You also need a feature writer: same deal.
The production values for a 'glossy magazine' are a world apart from the style of your websites, but the photographic style of the nude women pictures are not that much different.
If you back off every time you see work you will always be unsuccessful (just kidding, I know and understand your lifestyle choices). You will kick yourself if somebody else is the early adopter and makes a go of it.
Coming in second is for losers, even on those occasions when they make a success of their entry into the market. . These are my opinions. If you don't like them, I have others.
Correction: there may only be 53 pix because some are perhaps duplicated (I was not being that careful, so I am not sure, not that it matters) but 57 Varieties like the HJ Heinz claim (a spurious number in itself) was so seductive.
Some of those remaining 53 are not up to glossy magazine print standard (washed out highlights, insufficient tonal range, and Valeri needs new shoes) but with more stringent selection I see no reason to change my suggestion.
"...the photographic style of the nude women pictures are not that much different."
I was wrong on that one, but the difference I see as a virtue. The airbrushed perfection of say Playboy (even after some queen or dyke makeup artist has sweated blood prior to the picture being taken) is anodyne and uninteresting to me. Your girls don't look like those circuit hardened professionals, and that's good provided its not pushed too far.
I am not a consumer of the wares you offer, but like the eunuch in the harem (a much misunderstood role) I can distance myself from the product. I think there is potential if you get it right, and getting it wrong should not be too costly if you set it up right.
That's it for me. You've been a great audience. Thank you and goodnight.
Encore!
There are probably many more if one cares. A couple of years ago somebody counted hundreds on Domai alone.
Not that it matters.
Petter Hegre already came first with his glossy, I think it's called The New Nude.
Charles Schulz said that having somebody else make the drawings for Peanuts would be like having somebody else swing his golf club.
"Charles Schulz said that having somebody else make the drawings for Peanuts would be like having somebody else swing his golf club."
Just asking... how much of the content on your two nude photographs websites is all your own work?
Good point, Dizesse, but if I were to run a magazine, I would want to edit it, but not necessarily to write all the articles. If I left the editing to somebody else, I feel it would no longer have anything to do with me.
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