A good friend whom I met here and talk to regularly and I thought about this as we read about one of our favourite current writers leaving Wolfe Publishing - Ross Seyfried. While we are waiting for the AR book to be released, we just thought we'd ask the members for their opinion on an AR magazine since there are a number of experts here who have a wealth of experience that would help anyone who is interested in guns and hunting and African hunting in particular. I would personally vote with a 3 year subscription the minute this is announced.

Best wishes and Good Hunting!

Hmmmmm . . . what an interesting idea! Given the vast number of topics covered here, it might end up being a bit thick. We'd have to restrict ourselves but the possibilities certainly intrigue. 1 vote in favor, here.

LV Eric,

I did not step in to the cost issue so far and there have been earlier posts talking about this as well as manpower resources, but at my last job, I was the editor of an all colour medical technology journal with an audited circulation of 35000 copies a month and the costs were nowhere near what you're talking about. I would presume 5 colour offset printing costs the same wherever it is done but the labour costs in the west would be much higher than in India where fairly good art school graduates could be hired for little more than INR 100 an hour - the equivalent of about US$ 2.25.

With a catalogue you would have the marketing costs to factor in, while in a journal of the type that I edited, these were low as we sold subscriptions at CME seminars. The same seminars were a source for articles from doctors who participated.

I still believe that a no-paper CD/DVD only journal could easily be produced at a very low cost but that is another story altogether.

That said, I personally know of members here who have some good articles on excellent subjects and whom I have referred to friends in the US publishing industry. I hope they would send these in for the AR online magazine to give some delightful reading to the members here.

Good hunting!