Linux Format Magazine Team Quits, Launches New Profit-Donating Mag

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 15, 2013 @06:26AM from the stick-a-fork-in-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "What happens when the editorial team of the biggest-selling English Linux magazine gets frustrated? They leave their company and start a new one. Most of the writers behind Linux Format have jumped ship and started Linux Voice, a social enterprise magazine which will donate 50% of its profits back to the community, and freely license its content under Creative Commons after 9 months. They're running a fundraiser on Indiegogo with already a quarter of their funding goal reached. Will this shake up the whole publishing industry?"

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Re:Afraid not by jonnyj · 2013-11-15 07:18 · Score: 5, Interesting

The whole industry is in sharp decline and everyone knows it, especially those within.
True. But Linux Format has been bucking the trend in recent years. Its circulation has been rising steadily and, at 21,784 print copies per issue in 2012, it has a similar circulation to the venerable New Statesman (24,910). It trounces many other very familiar specialist mags such as Mac Format (6,842), PC format (6,249) and What Mountain Bike (13,870). It's not even too far behind the 100-year old Autocar (40,168).
All figures from ABC.