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Re: [PRESS RELEASE] INTRODUCING BRICKST MAGAZINE - THE LEGO® FAN MAGAZINE.
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Sun, 5 Jan 2003 04:32:43 GMT
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In lugnet.publish, Pedro Silva writes:
In lugnet.publish, Tim Courtney writes:
Until then, I encourage all of you overseas fans to express your interest in
the magazine to us through our website, so we can get a better idea of what
the demand is.

I am interested in the magazine!
:-)

(Ok, so this wasn't told through the website... I'll get there!)

Hi Pedro -
Thanks for your interest!

I have a question regarding future overseas distribution: *assuming*
interest level is high enough, can we expect a European edition? (same
stuff, but printed locally in the Netherlands for instance)

You can probably understand why I don't want to give a definite answer here,
but I really hope this will be the case. Like I said before, when I went to
LEGOWORLD, there was an overwhelming amount of interest.

I'm already in contact with a couple people in the Netherlands who could
make this happen if we decide to go that route. It's definitely high on our
priority list for things to look into.

I wouldn't expect a European edition right away, though. For the time being,
we will be looking into shipping the US edition overseas, while gathering
interest in foreign markets. Once we feel the interest is high enough, we
can start talking about a European edition, possibly in a couple languages
if there's a demand and if we can find translators.

Costs could drop significantly for european subscribers, given the savings
in import taxes and postal charges. That would probably mean more people
would have access to the magazine throughout Europe, and that could only be
a good thing in a community POV. In my particular situation, since there
would be little demand from Portugal (1), a more decentralized distribution
would be a great thing - especially now that postal costs are uniformized
within the EU.

Good suggestions, thanks!

Cheers,


Pedro

(1) - I use my case as an example, but I'm sure many others are in a similar
situation; we all know there are AFOLs all over the world, but some
countries have *so few* of us that there would be little economic interest
in selling there. This is why I propose you take advantage of the
ever-growing single-market, especially now that the currency is the same in
most of it.

Yep! If we establish distribution in the Netherlands, there is no reason we
can't mail to other countries in Europe, especially with the uniform postage
rates you mentioned.

-Tim

--
Tim Courtney
BrickMedia, LLC
tim@brickmedia.com
http://www.brickmedia.com



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  Re: [PRESS RELEASE] INTRODUCING BRICKST MAGAZINE - THE LEGO® FAN MAGAZINE.
 
(...) Depending on how you guys are printing these, it could never happen. If you guys are getting these printed by professionals, then I doubt you will ever see a separate European edition based on the costs involved. If you guys are printing these (...) (22 years ago, 5-Jan-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.eu)

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  Re: [PRESS RELEASE] INTRODUCING BRICKST MAGAZINE - THE LEGO® FAN MAGAZINE.
 
(...) I am interested in the magazine! :-) (Ok, so this wasn't told through the website... I'll get there!) I have a question regarding future overseas distribution: *assuming* interest level is high enough, can we expect a European edition? (same (...) (22 years ago, 4-Jan-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.loc.eu)

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