Popular Electronics Magazine

[JohnS_AZ]

Wow, Popular Electronics is working toward a comeback. I literally grew up reading that magazine.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599798763/the-return-of-popular-electronics-magazine

A kickstart project I'll actually support.

[Frangible]

That was one of my all-time favorite magazines.  I lost interest when it tried to become yet another PC magazine.  I guess I'll find out how good the relaunch is when I receive the inaugural issue!

[JohnS_AZ]

Reading between the lines, it seem like they will be mostly an on-line magazine, with occasional printed "special issues".
I agree. If they just push out PC/Mac articles, I'm done.

[Polossatik]

I wonder if the "desktop" edition (pdf I assume) will be DRM free...
if it has DRM , no go

[Frangible]

Obviously, the iPad version will be encumbered, but perhaps the desktop won't...

[JohnS_AZ]

I think I couldn't care less about DRM. How do Make and Circuit Cellar do it? I've never looked.

[Bored@Work]

The first thing I would want to see is prove they indeed own the rights to the magazine title, in all areas they intend distribution, in all trademark categories that matter.

The second thing is, I don't think $40000 is enough to get that off the ground in a professional way. $40000 to rent some office space, equip it, including a decent IT infrastructure, pay editors, a secretary, a beancounter, run a sales and billing organisation, run a few servers, pay authors. They won't survive for a month with that money.

[FreeThinker]

Perhaps Dave and Chris might be interested in this issue!(Check out the first article  )

[JohnS_AZ]

I don't think $40000

I don't know. It's a REALLY low number, but they may have other financing or or personal investment behind them.

What's more, they're starting out bimonthly, so only 6 issues the first year, and the massive burden of pre-press, printing, and distribution is now non-existent.  So, a few writers wiling to help start it by working cheaply and a tight staff of work-at-homers to begin with and it might all work.

But you're right $40K would scare me a little bit. Still, I'll support them.

[mitpatterson]

Ok, first off i backed it, now for the folks wondering about DRM, someone asked him, here is the reply:

Yes -- we're big believers in content sharing! Thank you for asking!

[EEVblog]

I think I couldn't care less about DRM. How do Make and Circuit Cellar do it? I've never looked.

Circuit Cellar switched to an online reader some time back, but you can still download a standard PDF file. Nothing technically stopping you sharing with someone else.

Dave.

[johnboxall]

I think I couldn't care less about DRM. How do Make and Circuit Cellar do it? I've never looked.

Make: digital subscription lets you download a nice DRM-free .pdf file.
I chipped in US$50 for the new Popular Electronics - good value for a five year subscription (if they get up).

[Polossatik]

asked the q's here raised and some more on the kickstart site.
still wondering if im' going to backed them up with 50  or 100

[Zyvek]

Awesome news, not sure if it could be as cool as it was back then, but I'm hoping they pull it back from the grave.