For many years computer fans have produced Amateur Magazines for their
 favorite computer.  These Amateur Magazines (nicknamed fanzines) are often
 inexpensive to produce and can provide the average computer user with an
 interesting and cheaper alternative to the commercial magazines that you
 find in the shops.  Many of these magazines attract a loyal following
 because often they are better than some commercial rivals who's main
 concern is advertising revenue and then sales figures.


 PRODUCTION
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     Amateur Magazines can either be produced on paper in the normal way, or on
 cassette or disk to form a magazine program that will load into your
 computer.  If you produce a magazine on paper then you will have to
 consider the design.  Most paper magazines are designed on a typewriter or
 computer printer and are then photocopied at a local printers shop.
 If your magazine is on cassette or disk then you have the advantage that
 you will need no other equipment.  All you need is the ability to program
 an interesting and well written magazine.  Your magazine contents could
 include: news, reviews, previews, competitions, readers letters page, top
 ten software charts and perhaps a section on learning to program.


 MARKETING
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     Most Amateur magazines are advertised in the classified sections of the
 major computer magazines.  You are usually allowed about 20-50 words for
 about œ2.00 to œ15.00.  You could pay for a larger advert, but this can be
 very expensive and you are unlikely to make back your money on such a low
 profit margin.  STICK to the classified adverts, they are cheap, efficient
 and providing that you sell your magazine at the right price, you will
 always make your money back.


 REWARDS
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     Paper magazines are usually sold for between 40p to œ2.50. (anything
 more than this and you will be competing with the proffesional magazines).
 Cassette or disk magazines are usually sold for between 50p and œ3.00.  You
 will not make a large profit on just a few sales, so you will have to sell
 your magazine in large quantities.  Most Amateur magazines sell in their
 hundreds and well established magazines even sell in their thousands.  Once
 you start selling your magazine in these numbers then you can expect quite
 a large profit.
 It is very unlikely that you will earn a large amount of money when you
 have just started producing your Amateur magazine.  It usually takes a few
 issues to build up a large readership figure.  Providing that the magazine
 is interesting and imformative enough then a reader who buys one issue will
 buy another, thus building up your readership figure.