First off, why are you calling me Mr. Kaderabek...?
As to your suggestion, Dave, I don't know if this has come up previously or not. I'm not opposed to the idea for the most part. I do think it would exclude a lot of editorial content (the regular columns, for example). At the very least we would need descriptive captions so it wasn't just a Photo Bucket page in magazine form.
I think the obstacles would be as follows:
1) Cost -- we're scraping by to maintain 32 pages of color now. Running 64 pages of 4C would be cost prohibitive. But we could afford it in the current format, 32 pp 4C, 32 pp 1C. Maybe 32 pages of color rigs and 32 pages of the regular 1C columns?
2) Obtaining submissions -- it's so much easier to "prematurely epubulate"
on the internet than it is to be patient enough to be published in a print magazine. You're well aware of this (and have been very patient). Most people aren't this way. They want it easy, fast and on their screen. The TLCA Member Rigs section is a good example of this -- it's about to be discontinued due to lack of submissions. To populate 32 pages of the same sort of content could take months to collect, by which time 50% of it would have been posted to Mud, Pirate and TTORA. And old news is old news.
So yeah, I'm open to the idea. I'm not sure logistically how to pull it off. I'll give it some more thought.
TJK
for you
