New magazine

[coalescent]

scalpel_mag, for all your sf reviewing and criticism needs.
First issue includes:

• A guest editorial by Pat Cadigan


• A column by Adam Roberts


• An interview with Charles Stross


• Reviews of Ink by Hal Duncan, The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate by Ted Chiang, and Gradisil by Adam Roberts.

If you want to contribute, guidelines are here.

Comments

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Bearing in mind that it may not necessarily be replicatable. I have a feeling that SH's donation model only really works because there aren't a dozen other sf 'zines doing the same thing.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Ah!

Subterraneam. D'oh!

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

They get pulled down after a certain point. I don't actually have any idea why, but now I'm curious. Let me investigate.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

So is patronage the model that's going to work? Now all we have to do is work out who would sponsor Scalpel ...

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Also Hub magazine in the UK recently switched to an online-only model.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I helped fund their venture by paying for a subscription to the print version.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

Well, it couldn't be a publisher.

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Do they have to be different words?

[snowking.livejournal.com]

Sure. When it comes out here. EVENTUALLY. FUCKS.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

When's it due?

[snowking.livejournal.com]

27th July. So three weeks of dodging impressions of it. I'll probably have to stop reading Shortpacked.

[twic.myopenid.com (from livejournal.com)]

Wait! You can parse that as meaning "read like it could not have been written by you", which kind of makes it okay.

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-- tom

[hollowpoint.livejournal.com]

You should've been refunded - get in touch with Lee Harris if not!

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Chizine is funded by Leisure books and has been for quite a while.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I think they only buy the right to archive for a year.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Well SH has been online since what? 2000? 2001? That seem pretty sustainable to me. I've been talking a lot about online models with my friend Jer and the problem is people expect free content online - it's a huge barrier to overcome and I think you are more likely to be sustainable imposing on the good will of folk than trying to charge them per issue.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

I think it tends to have the most legs if the publisher is commited to it.

I also think the Clarkesworld hybrid model is interesting.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

Although as Gabe points out, you can't really have a publisher sponsoring a non-fiction zine. So where do you go?

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Brett says that it's partly server space and $$$ constraints and partly, yeah, so that they can be resold a little easier. (We'll take them down on request after three months, and everything comes down after a year.)

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

You can't have a fiction publisher ...

Universities, people interested in SF like the SF museum, science museums. I think there's loads of places you could approach.

(Not that I think any of them will bite, but if you can get declared a non-profit with the IRS, you might get someone interested in SF with a small business to do it for the rightoff.)

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

All he has to do is make SF reviewing more like porn.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Well I think there's loads of them out there, but I think SH had a huge advantage in that they started before many of them and also had (have?) some large donors. Always easier to win the pie when you can get a big chunk from relatively few people. (Well unless they decide to pull the plug.)

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I ain't reviewing naked.

[secritcrush.livejournal.com]

Well I assume they would have people who do the reviews and people who are the eye candy and never the twain would meet.

[deadcities-icon.livejournal.com]

That's an interesting approach. Most of the well-known genre universities already have their own projects going, but maybe somewhere out there is a university with a good, strong genre criticism stance...