On 6/11/06, Devdas Bhagat devdas@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
CDs are dirt cheap (<= 10 INR per CD pressed once you create the master). Content isn't. 100 INR is _not_ much for a good magazine, particularly
Agreed, CDs are dirt cheap. But 100 INR is still not affordable for many. I for example cannot afford to shell out 100 INR every month. I'd much rather spend the extra few minutes googling.
I don't know what the pricing procedure is and I also don't know if the magazine can be printed in, say, lower quality paper or something to lower cost. Just a suggestion to probably stand out from the rest of the magazines ;-)
if you notice that the average student outside the Mumbai metropolitan region spends more than that on fuel alone.
Fuel?? You're certainly talking about a different class of people here. I (and most of educated India, AFAIK) don't spend on fuel. Mostly its on bus and train fare ;-).
You can always get your college/school to subscribe to it, and borrow from a library.
Hmm yeah, thats a nice idea. But I doubt if schools/colleges issue magazines. Mine didn't. They issue only "study books". You can read magazines in the library thats all. You *can* borrow CDs though, so thats a plus.
Siddhesh