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Waiting for a magazine?

Are you in the Americas and waiting for a magazine? The bad news is that you’ll have to wait a little longer. Due to a strike and lockout at Canada Post, copies destined for anywhere in the Americas (which ship … Continue reading

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I love you about $35 000 dollars worth

That’s my best guess at just how much free labour has gone into Libre Graphics magazine since the end of August. Why the math? Because right now, I’m working on our application for the Canada Council for the Arts Literary … Continue reading

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Look! Over there! git!

Have you looked at the right hand side of this blog lately? You may have noticed, beneath the Flattr button and the tag cloud, something new. It’s not only new, but exciting, too. It’s an RSS feed of our git … Continue reading

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Today is a great day to donate

Why? Because today is the day we close books on the finances for issue 1.1. We’ve sold quite a few magazines (but not nearly all of them) and have received some generous donations. But all the money we’ve raised still … Continue reading

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Let’s talk about cash part 1: the basics

We’ve put out a magazine. We’re working on putting out another one, and to keep on putting them out every three months for the foreseeable future. In the run-up to issue 1.1, we blogged and made public lots of details … Continue reading

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Not immune to Flattry

No, that’s not a typo in the title of this post. If you don’t know about Flattr already, you should check it out. It’s a very cool micropayment system which allows users to set a monthly amount and then divide … Continue reading

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Now compatible with libraries

We’re very pleased to announce that Libre Graphics Magazine (the informal name under which we’ll continue to trade) now has an ISSN. Two of them, in fact. Handed down today by Library and Archives Canada, we are now, officially: ISSN … Continue reading

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Planning document

When applying for a grant (which we actually didn’t end up getting) to support printing costs for issue 1.1, we created a detailed planning document. It provides an overview of distribution channels, print specifications, target readers and so on. Here’s … Continue reading

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