The Perl Journal On The Ropes

rochlin writes "Looks like The Perl Journal might not make it up for air after all. This blurb is on their website. 'Time is running short and we need your help if The Perl Journal is to get another chance at being the real deal. As of a couple of minutes ago, we only have 881 subscriptions and the deadline is fast approaching. Please subscribe now. It only costs 3 cents per day to get the best Perl coverage anywhere.'" They need 3,000 subscribers to move forward.

Comments

Re:I've been at odds with CMP ever since BYTE

[Anonymous Coward]

yea, right. Last time I paid for my Perl journal subscription, they got sold to earthweb, took my money and refused to send a magazine, refused to return calls, refused to return email. Why should I re-subscribe to a magazine thats till owes me a years subscription?

How could it work?

[ageitgey]

From the website:

Well, sort of. We need your help. TPJ is totally reader supported. To provide TPJ to you, we need 3,000 subscribers. Bean counters and suits being what they are, our bosses won't let us publish the e-zine if we don't have enough subscribers. It's as simple as that.

3,000 readers * $12.00 subscription = $36,000 yearly income before taxes and bandwidth costs.

How could they survive on that? You couldn't even pay one decent perl programmer to write articles. Who is paying all the "bean counters and suits"?

maybe expand coverage to Ruby and Python

[raistlinthegreat]

Python and Ruby are becoming more and more popular. especially Ruby has many fans who came
from a Perl background.
maybe "The Perl Journal" should be a "Ruby, Perl, Python" Journal.

Don't be so quick to show your rich tastes.

[Inoshiro]

If you were living in Canada, that'd be over $55,000.

To put this in perspective, you can live a decent life in a nice house that you are paying off for $18,000 a year (yes, that includes internet access, food, utilities, etc).

Even after taxes you still have 10-15 grand to just piss away! I know that some US centres are very expensive to live in (NYC, Boston), but is everywhere in the US so damned expensive that you can't live on less than an appreciable fraction of a million dollars?