JamesG wrote:
Well you wouldn't want to produce a traditional print magazine anyway... their days are numbered.
I think print mags will continue for a bit longer yet, but increasingly with online editions running alongside. Eventually the print editions will be dropped, but I think that is still a few years away. It's true though that starting a print magazine is expensive and risky, and probably the majority close before ever reaching any kind of financial break-even point. Big magazine publishing groups can take that into account in their planning - they know that not every new mag will succeed. Small independent publishers have to be very careful, however.
JamesG wrote:
But you could build a variation of the "e-zine" model around this forum, blogs, space related news feeds, and contributions (like Intranaut's fiction) fairly easily, quickly, and for low overhead.
Yes, perhaps you are right - that might well be the way to go. No pressure, very low expenses, and the project/online community can grow slowly and organically for however long there are people interested in it. (Which given that this is space exploration we are talking about, will probably be either for a VERY long time or else until our civilization crashes!)
I agree that Intranaut's fiction is exactly the sort of thing such an e-zine needs.