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Rock Magazine - new ed 17-Feb-2012 At 3:37:55 PM will5686

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On 17/02/2012 Damo666 wrote:
>On 17/02/2012 will5686 wrote:
>The problem is that ink, paper, servers, power bills, distribution are
>not free, and you need to charge for the mag, so money invariably enters
>the equation somewhere and it all falls down.

Yes, someone obviously has to pay for the mag to be produced, but this is the publisher, not the writers. Maybe it is better if you can keep the writers away from the money side of things altogether? I guess that is kind of what online forums do...

>Either doing things for fun and free is good, and doing things for money
>is fine too, but it's mixing them up that causes problems.

Yeah, you are right here. That is why magazines with a massive amount of reader contributed content tend to do well. Their writers get a fuzzy feeling from seeing their stuff in print, and the readers get to read really interesting and unstaged content from people who are just like them.

So I guess my point was that people should just try to ignore the measly amount they are getting paid and contribute to Rock because they want that fuzzy feeling... but I admit this might not be possible. And I wasn't very clear when I was explaining myself either, sorry. I knew the information was relevent somehow though.

>But in general I agree that getting paid to do something as a job changes
>your view of it. This is particularly important with hobbies, interests
>or passions, like climbing. Making it a job can kill the passion.

So true. Because at some stage you are going to have to do it at a time when you don't want to, which makes you love the activity just that little bit less.