Good news is that we're already chatting with two print houses about printing around 1k copies (test print basically). The plan is to give these away on various events / conferences, or to local communities.
Bad news is that we'll be able to only send these to EU, and only in large batches (like 100 copies to one place), and not individually.
Good news is that we'll make the printer-house-friendly PDFs available for anyone who wants to print a batch and given them away (or sell them for the cost of making).
And I also have this idea to chat with various companies for them to make a sponsor-batch of zines to print and give away, e.g. on events they sponsor. Not sure how much interest there will be.
We also plan to make a nice "collector's" high-quality print of a bundle edition (e.g. 4 issues in one "book") to help get some money into the project. Same as PoC||GTFO did (shoutout to these folks), though we'll probably go with a kickstarter or sth.
Now, the elephant in the room: selling individual issues in a consistent always-available way ← that's something we're discussing from time to time. At this moment we're not there yet, as the logistics and accounting stuff of this operation would be pretty huge. I'm also thinking of approaching some local magazine publishers in some countries with a deal like "hey, we have PDFs, wanna print and sell these for a %?".
It would be very cool if each issue had its unique "website", and each article it's own unique page (different colors or layout, but consistent with that issue's overall theme).
Some blogs used to do this back in the day, where each post had its own unique design.
Something like mkdocs with material theme, or Hugo could do the trick. Or, you know, plain old hand crafted html and css and a script to generate the pdfs (with headless chrome for maximum compatibility).
Good news is that we're already chatting with two print houses about printing around 1k copies (test print basically). The plan is to give these away on various events / conferences, or to local communities.
Bad news is that we'll be able to only send these to EU, and only in large batches (like 100 copies to one place), and not individually.
Good news is that we'll make the printer-house-friendly PDFs available for anyone who wants to print a batch and given them away (or sell them for the cost of making).
And I also have this idea to chat with various companies for them to make a sponsor-batch of zines to print and give away, e.g. on events they sponsor. Not sure how much interest there will be.
We also plan to make a nice "collector's" high-quality print of a bundle edition (e.g. 4 issues in one "book") to help get some money into the project. Same as PoC||GTFO did (shoutout to these folks), though we'll probably go with a kickstarter or sth.
Now, the elephant in the room: selling individual issues in a consistent always-available way ← that's something we're discussing from time to time. At this moment we're not there yet, as the logistics and accounting stuff of this operation would be pretty huge. I'm also thinking of approaching some local magazine publishers in some countries with a deal like "hey, we have PDFs, wanna print and sell these for a %?".
So yeah, it's complicated™ ;)