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Re: [announce] Invented Languages magazine

From:Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 27, 2008, 22:17
There is definite prestige to dead-tree publication - that will go
away in time, of course.  But we're talking about the value of
offering the magazine *additionally* in electronic form.  If it's
available only to paid subscribers to the print edition, I don't see
how that detracts from the magazine's value or prestige...



On 5/27/08, Fredrik Ekman <ekman@...> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 6:56 pm, And Rosta said: > >> Now that pdfs are free and easy to create, hardcopy has no great > typographical >> advantages, either. > > As one of the contributing writers in the publication, I have to point out > one argument against electronic distribution. A professional-looking print > publication carries a lot more status than an electronic document, no > matter how nice the typography is. Now, that status may not be important > to you as a reader, but it certainly is important to me as a writer. > > I contributed my article purely as a non-profit undertaking. Now, I have > wanted to write that article for a long time, and I could have just > self-published it on my own web site. I did not do that, even though it > would have given the article a potentially larger audience and longer > lifetime. But when Rick came along and offered the possibility of having > it in print, I jumped at the opportunity, partly because I know how good > it feels to see my own words printed in a good publication. Without that > venue, who knows if I would ever have written it. (Whether it actually > DESERVED to be written and published is a completely different > discussion.) > > Electronic publication, whether in html or pdf, definitely has its place. > So does the printed word. The fact that the conlanging community has its > own magazine should be heralded as a great achievement and something which > raises the status of said community. > > That some people should choose not to purchase because they think the > format is too expensive or too inconvenient is, naturally, their choice. > And I respect it. But that does not in any way lessen the value of the > publication. Just the contrary. > > Fredrik > > PS. Rick himself may possibly have gone nomail, so if he does not enter > this discussion, that is not due to lack of respect or anything. >
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