Good luck 9rules, you rock!!

A magazine eh? That could get interesting. I spent a decade working in print.

Nice interview Thord.

Happily, it’s now on Amazon, and even Tesco, a British supermarket, is selling it.

I have my own print company, Dial Publishing (.com), which used to publish educational books and courses. It has now become the print arm of Syntagma Media.

If Mike, or anyone wants to do a tieup for on-demand publishing of network content, we’re happy to discuss it.

Much better than Lulu. And we use Lightning Source, which is owned by Ingram, the US’s biggest book distributor.

Of course, if you want the best possible quality for an affordable prize you would have to go traditional print. It gets too expensive otherwise. (Yeah, I’ve done quite some print work.)

It all comes down to what kind of product you want to put out there, really. If you guys do it, I’m sure it’ll be great either way.

Of course moving to a *traditional* magazine format would be expensive, but if you take advantage of the cheap printing that some internet services offer (Lulu.com for example) then we can self-publish our own print-versions of 9rules content for very cheap, with little overhead. Just ask 37signals how well that’s worked for them

John,
Although moving to print sure is expensive, you have to account for the fact that 9rules has a huge market in its own readers. The right kind of magazines could be produced by quality writers, and marketed within the network for almost nothing. Standing with one foot in the community that not only produces your content, but also is a natural bulk of your customers sure opens a lot of doors. Actually, I would say that your network could do the same, if the traffic is strong enough.

I’ve been wary of writing about 9rules in the past because I had a feeling a lot of stuff was going on under the bonnet that we aren’t privy to. It will be fascinating to watch the evolution. A *possible* move to print would be interesting but wildly expensive.