From: contact (email suppressed)
Date: Wed Oct 05 2005 - 19:58:24 PDT
Brian,
Yeah, what Owen said: every volume is a dvd. This is not a print
journal/magazine. The content is film, and the medium is a dvd-9 disc.
While I can't argue that a specialty publication isn't a good place for
potential specialty advertisers, we find ads generally evil and are
trying to float the JSF without them. It's a goal, anyway. For those
companies and organizations that are useful, we imagine a place to
promote them eventually on the website. (the website will someday be
much more useful.)
As for where we get our funding: we've managed to get this started
with minimal $. This project is modeled on a literary journal, and the
filmmakers are providing their works for very little money (and
maintaining the rights to their films, by the way).
Thanks for the comments.
==karl
The Journal of Short Film
On Oct 5, 2005, at 8:52 PM, owen wrote:
> Brian,
> It's a DVD anthology. Who are these guys and where do they get their
> funding?
>
> Owen
>
>
> On Oct 5, 2005, at 7:49 PM, Brian Frye wrote:
>
>> Congratulations on the new journal. It sounds very interesting, and
>> I look forward to reading it. However, I found the following
>> puzzing:
>>
>> "The JSF is ad-free and is committed to keeping the cost of=20
>> subscriptions low. ($10/vol., $36/subscription for 4 volumes, at=20
>> www.theJSF.org)"
>>
>> First, these two goals seem, well, at odds with one another. Not
>> accepting ads is guaranteed to make the journal more expensive. And,
>> honestly, $10/$36 isn't such a bargain. Second, what's the rationale
>> for excluding ads? I can understand the appeal for public TV, as ad
>> breaks are distracting and often quite annoying. But I've never
>> found them so in magazines. At least within reason. And I guess I'm
>> not a big Vogue reader... But then people seem to buy that sort of
>> thing expressly *for* ads. And really, I'd think that one of the
>> virtues of a specialty magazine of the sort your selling is that
>> potential advertisers can know quite precisely and easily what
>> audience they're reaching... And what's more, I generally find the
>> ads in specialty magazines a source of quite helpful information.
>> Perhaps I'm just peculiar in that respect. But I suspect not.
>>
>> Brian Frye
>>
>>
>>
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