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Posted By: jeff

You're absolutely right, David -- especially about the viability of any kind of print magazine. It takes an SCD-style business model (9 of 10 pages are advertising) to be profitable at all.

What about a Salon-style online mag? Some of the same problems exist, of course (Salon and its cohorts are making little if any money), but a mag like this wouldn't do much large-scale publicity -- the sort that costs Salon, etc., so much.

It seems like what we need is some happy medium between VCBC and this board -- something that does more than just provides a forum for banter, but also keeps that side of things open (in a way a print magazine cannot).

Jeff