[Nh-pm] TPJ in trouble

[Paul Lussier]

In a message dated: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 12:18:34 EDT
Ben Boulanger said:

>On Mon, 7 Oct 2002 pll at lanminds.com wrote:
>> I just saw this on /., which surprised me, since I've been an avid 
>> fan and subscriber of The Perl Journal since issue #1!!!
>
>Isn't the Perl Journal part of sysadmin?  Is this breaking it off into 
>its own magazine again, as it was awhile back?

TPJ started out as an independant magazine, but then got taken over 
by Earthweb (I think) who some how fumbled the publishing.  Sysadmin
(under CMP) then took it over from Earthweb.  For some reason CMP no 
longer wants to have sysadmin as a quarterly supplement of sysadmin.

I'm not sure of the entire story here, but they are now looking for 
subscribers to fund the publishing.  It looks like CMP is going to 
publish TPJ as an on-line, reader-supported-only publication, but in 
order to do so, they need to get a sufficient number of readers to at 
least make it profitable for them.  Currently they only have about 
800 subscribers, and they need 3000.

Evidently they put the call out a while back to gain subscribers, but 
the /. article was the first I had heard about it.
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Paul
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