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On 06/06/2006 08:28 PM, Hemant Charya cobbled together some glyphs to say:
I am Hemant Charya. I work for a major publishing house in Mumbai, India.
Hello Hemant, nice to hear from you.
We intend to make Linuxformat (http://linuxformat.co.uk/) magazine availabe in India, at Indian prices. Linuxformat magazine is very popular in UK . It is accompanied by a DVD (July '06 DVD contains: Polished Mandriva spin-off PCLinuxOS, and rock-solid enterprise-ready CentOS, KOffice 1.5, Oracle 10g XE, games and more
Well, that's very good news. I would love to have LinuxFormat (or any other high-quality GNU/Linux magazine published in India).
As a publisher we want to learn from the Indian Linux community and potential readers:
- Whether the Linux users in India like to read an international
magazine dedicated to Linux?
Yes, of course. There is a great market for a high-quality magazine dedicated to (GNU/)Linux in India.
- Would they be interested in subscribing to such a magazine.
Yes, why not. I for one used to read the other Linux magazine available in India. I stopped reading it after an year because of their poor quality of articles and over-all content and of course their (the publishing house's) lack of knowledge about GNU/Linux. The magazine that's available in India lacks quality material. So I for one would really appreciate a magazine that has good content and is managed by knowledgeable people.
- What would be the most the most attractive cover-price in Indian
Rupees? (The internatonal edition of Linuxformat is available in select bookstores of Mumbai. A single issue costs an exorbitant 600+ Rupees).
INR 100 would be fine for most people, I guess. Personally I am ready to pay upto INR 150 if the quality is excellent.
Regards, BG
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