Message-ID: <13376@sri-arpa.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 10-Sep-84 21:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 10 21:05:00 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 14-Sep-84 07:38:36 EDT
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Certainly - as long as there is no need to make a profit, you can
probably publish anything you want.  A magazine's production and
shipping costs can usually be paid just out of subscriber revenue.
The higher costs occur when you have to do fancier printing, and
paying authors and such.  in a newsletter, most of the authors
are volunteers, printing costs are minimal, and postage is typically
$.20 per issue.  Note that computer based communications (including
especially USENet, but also ARPA/DDN, CBBS, and RCPM systems) are
also doing very nicely, much to the detriment of available disk space.

BillW

PS: Quite a bit of this data comes from Jerry Pournelles talks at
	a recent SF Con.  SF magazines aren't doing so good either.