Cool! Congrats to them. Why isn't it true for any other games?

Nestorgames accepting Bitcoin. I guess the news was about BitPay then.

They did this quite some time ago. I was researching them 2 weeks ago even.

<Guy 1> I was there before the first magazine was ever printed...See? This is the minus first issue.
<Guy 2> Oh yea? I was there before the minus first issue was printed, see? This is the minus second issue.
<Guy 3> Oh yeah? I was there before all of them were printed and it was just being worked on, see? This is a chatlog.
<Matthew> Sup bitches. I was there when I had the idea. Mint anyone?
<Bruno>Or at least got the idea from somebody else like when you stole my Twunk Tank idea and tried to pawn it off as Twunker. ~TAKES handful of mints~
<Satoshi>Mwrgblghglbrwghcrrgbl. ~Can't talk because he's shoveling bucketloads of mints into his face~
<Atlas> Looks like Satoshi *puts on glasses* is unremorseful.

LOL.

<Guy 1> I was there before the first magazine was ever printed...See? This is the minus first issue.
<Guy 2> Oh yea? I was there before the minus first issue was printed, see? This is the minus second issue.
<Guy 3> Oh yeah? I was there before all of them were printed and it was just being worked on, see? This is a chatlog.
<Me> Sup bitches. I was there when I had the idea. Mint anyone?

Hehe. I wish it were possible to 'hurry up' with distribution.

Well, that's true, and let me be the first to say that all I ever really need to know is if the community supports me when it's time to make those tough decisions. It's true that we're selling a product, but it's not just a product that people are buying ownership of, it's a promise they're buying ownership of as well-- and that's the dangerous part for me. Gotta be featherlight with this shit.


Thanks for the order! Digital copies go out via any of our available digital channels which haven't been decided fully yet.

I'm going to skillfully avert attention to another topic to avoid answering your question directly in an effort to avoid outrage from the community on the ramifications of either choice. lol

The fact that no one is making any money now that people are pulling out should tell you all that this was just a ponzi in the first place.

Mission Accomplished.

Before I even respond to this idea, let me say that everyone's opinions and suggestions are very warmly welcomed and well received, but that vague recommendations to "just offer a _____" only work if someone is willing to pay for that "_____". (I.e. we can offer the entire world in a basket, but it's worthless unless someone actually pays for it). Okay and now to a suggestion:


This is a good suggestion and almost exactly what Mihai had already planned (who was working on crowdfunding for the magazine until I ruined it by going live on the forums (Sorry Mihai ) and letting everyone know without consulting him.) and I think there might be room for this, but we're planning on sending to the printers in less than a week so I don't believe that would be fair to do on such short notice.

...unless you meant for every issue, in which case you're fucking brilliant.

Hehe. Appreciate the vote of confidence. Just the same, I need to be reminded of the feelings of our readers everyday to make sure I don't do something insane like put Atlas's photo on the cover. (Never...)

You're probably right. I was selectively reading only the first line of text you posted which was:


I must have gotten it out of context.

Sounds like reality to me.

No offense but, I've seen the difference between "writing" and "entertaining writing"  and that difference spells out "career".

I'm always open to what people submit though, I just hope they realize that just because it came from their fingertips and it's technically accurate and factual, doesn't mean it's fit to be published in a magazine. That said, one of our own writers is from the Bitcoin community

Potential encompasses reality.

Those spots are typically around $800 per store in fact. Also, have no misconceptions-- everyone goes through a distributor. The market is pretty well owned. I've researched it and what we're doing now (and some of the things I haven't mentioned in this thread) seem the safest and most logical direction to go. Understand that when I mention things here, we're already balanced the risks and done the homework. We're just looking for the feelings of the community on A or B.



We're not doing it for sure, and we'll only do it when it's financially possible. Your fears of quality of content are well heard and felt all across the board, but money fixes all problems as they say. When you can afford good writers from existing major magazines to cover certain subjects, your problem stops being "how much content" and "how can we make this other dumber shit look good in the face of this newer awesome shit". I'll be more than happy if that was our biggest issue.

Tell Tony of BitPay to talk to them about setting it up.

UPDATE: Good news and bad news ladies and gentlemen.

Good news

Barnes and Noble's supplier is working with me right now to get everything ready for distribution (and guess what, the manager I'm working with saw the Good Wife episode and is very interested in Bitcoin  ) and it looks like we'll be hitting the majority of the stores. We need to do our own budgeting for additional advertising packages etc to make it attractive for the stores to carry it, but that's all boring business stuff we're taking care of.


Bad news

The entire process could take several months. As anyone with basic math skills could figure out by now, printing out 2,000 issues is probably not cheap, and we only get the revenue of the issues that are actually sold, the rest of the issues being thrown in the garbage by the stores. This means that we have an interesting choice to make on design+quality. Should we:

• Go as cheap as possible for printing quality and binding until we sign the paperwork for distribution by major stores, at which time we have all the bells and whistles (and even up it to 100 pages); or
• Do we treat the community as our main target, run on the revenue we get from the community only, and see if we last 3 months on that alone.

It's one of those difficult management decisions, and I'm the one who has to make it so I'd like some kind, non-judgmental, and constructive advice on the matter.


P.S. My own personal feelings (which don't count for shit btw in the face of the entire community, i.e. our livelihood) are that we should run lean for 3 months, secure the magazine on a small platform in the community only, then come bursting out the gates in style in 3 months time with the more expensive binding styles (look up saddlestitch vs perfect binding and remind yourself that the difference is $3,500 for us at current volume)

Hey now, rocket science is a tad bit different. Furthermore, that's comparing potential which can't really be measured easily. Someone could theoretically do better than NASA in their own garage given a number of influences. Nasa is just a big garage in that sense. Global warming however can only be understood with a large enough data set. No one says it isn't happening that I know of, they're just saying the current data set isn't enough. It'd be like judging bitcoin on this month's price fluctuations alone.

I hear you. I'm not convinced we are.