On Demand Publishing with MagCloud

In a world where more mag­a­zines end up in land­fills than on the desks of read­ers, on demand pub­lish­ing may start to play a more impor­tant role. With this in mind HP has launched Mag­Cloud, a new ser­vice that allows any­one to pub­lish their own mag­a­zine. All you need to do is upload a PDF and they take care of the print­ing, sub­scrip­tion man­age­ment and dis­tri­b­u­tion. Best of all, you can set the price of the pub­li­ca­tion and any pro­ceeds above the base cost (about 20 cents per page plus ship­ping) are prof­its for your hard work.

Mag­Cloud also addresses the fact that most mag­a­zines end up in the trash. They only print what you need, when you need it and there is hardly any waste. The ser­vice is cur­rently in beta (no sur­prise there) and you must request a pub­lish­ing account, but you can still browse and sub­scribe to the cur­rent selec­tion of titles on the site. So what are you wait­ing for? Get out there and make that fam­ily newslet­ter a bit more pol­ished and maybe you’ll make some money in the process.

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