Again, I think you are missing the point.jcompton wrote:Well, okay, if the thrust is that "it'll always be so cheap, no established professionals will do it," that's when you go to the amateurs, who will be excited to make pizza money for the chance to see their name in print. Of which there are many many. (Which, from some of the posts I've read on the Survival forum, appears to be what RG largely did anyway.)
Either way you slice it, there are lots of people who can do this sort of work. With achingly beautiful prose? No, not all of them. But "finding people to write content" has never really been a top challenge for technology magazines.
I could write a Gameboy history article in half an hour, research it by reading Wikipedia, add a list of obvious games, and churn out another article on the same theme half an hour later...
...but I wouldn't want people to read it in that state. Even my "quickest" article for RG took 3 weeks from commission to the final submission (which was then badly edited, but we won't go into that now...)
RG didn't use "amateurs", as Lee pointed out. And this discussion has kinda hijacked the point of this thread....
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BACK ON TOPIC...
We've got a core of great people here, those involved in ZZAP! 107 and the Def Tribute. Get all those people involved in 108, and boom. Another killer release. As for timescale... when we're ready to do it.