On 12/06/06 00:41 +0530, Siddhesh Poyarekar wrote:
On 6/11/06, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
CDs are dirt cheap (<= 10 INR per CD pressed once you create the master). Content isn't. 100 INR is _not_ much for a good magazine, particularly
Agreed, CDs are dirt cheap. But 100 INR is still not affordable for many. I for example cannot afford to shell out 100 INR every month. I'd much rather spend the extra few minutes googling.
I don't know what the pricing procedure is and I also don't know if the magazine can be printed in, say, lower quality paper or something to lower cost. Just a suggestion to probably stand out from the rest of the magazines ;-)
That might work too. Though that kind of cost cutting tends to put off advertisers and other readers. Indian editions of most books are cheap (about 20% of their US counterparts). Particularly if you are in electronics or computer science.
if you notice that the average student outside the Mumbai metropolitan region spends more than that on fuel alone.
Fuel?? You're certainly talking about a different class of people here. I (and most of educated India, AFAIK) don't spend on fuel. Mostly its on bus and train fare ;-).
Notice the "outside the Mumbai metropolitan region" there. Mumbai and Kolkata are exceptions in India, not the rule.
You can always get your college/school to subscribe to it, and borrow from a library.
Hmm yeah, thats a nice idea. But I doubt if schools/colleges issue magazines. Mine didn't. They issue only "study books". You can read magazines in the library thats all. You *can* borrow CDs though, so thats a plus.
That's a question of amending college policies, whch would be a lot simpler. Reading magazines in the library shouldn't be an issue either.
Devdas Bhagat