User blog comment:KyleH/Introducing: Magazine Creator/@comment-234239-20091026101916

Greetings to KyleH and Shahid :) I appreciate the invite to view and use this product, its a neat idea! Not many have the knowledge, software, and sources to do this own their own, so this is a nice service that you are offering here. I for one am a retired artist, wareas job was graphic art/giftware design. Anywho i've created catalogs for my own business in the past, so I understand the price costs that they all are basically complaining about.

RE: Brandon Rhea & James T.Ford, in reply to comments posted on 10/22 and 10/23: From my area most shelf magazines are from $2.99 and up to $14.00 per copy, course if you have a subscription the cost is lower. The point i'm getting at is: Printing costs and shipping costs for each magazine printed and shipped. $6.00 to me sounds reasonable. But the fact remains, it costs $$ to print and ship, so if they don't charge the user/client something for it, then whom's to pay for it all? In my business, I charged my clients and would be clients between $3-5.00 per printed catalog. ( I wasn't a millionare and had zero private funding via a grant, etc. and I couldn't afford to just give every catalog I printed for my business.  The only time a client got one for free, was if they ordered over $100.00 in product...and most of them ordered at least $200 and up to $500 in product when I was in that line of business.)

RE: Green Reaper, comment 10/23: Copyright images: 1st of all, based on wiki site, as well as any other 'FAN SITE' on the net and any magazine with game content. Q1. What do they all share? A. Copies of photos and text copy taken from the game(s). Q2. How are they allowed to use all this content and photo's? A. Permission from the companies that created them. (Not to mention 'Newspapers,TV stations, TV networks all of them at one time or another have used copywritten images.) If the companies didnt give permission to the user of the product in question, then everyone that used a photo &/or text via imformation retrieved while using the product, would be able to be sued in open court for copyright fraud. -.- Many players have either at least a blog &/or their own fan site that they use for their friends, and on them there is blogs about the games and some also display photos taken within the game. The user/client of the product is allowed to do this under a freedom of speech and personal use-age by law, which is common between all game companies and news writers. (If it wasn't allowed then all that wrote something in a blog anywhere could be sued in open court for many violations....then no one would be buying or using the products anywhere. Which would put this world back into the stone age of advertising thru only word of mouth and/or only by visitation of the local establishments that carried the products in question.) An old friend/teacher that used to run a riding supplies store and he was also an painter-artist once told me this: Every photo anywhere has been created by a previous image, so there's none that really can say its 'original' unless its the image within your mind, but still you had to have had something to give you that image in-order to have imagined it to create it on paper. As he gave this example: Every morning you wake up and then see the Sun on a sunny day...then maybe later you decided to paint and/or draw that image, ie: the Sun. So what did you do? You copied a image of the Sun. Is it original? NO.

I rest my case on this topic. Be well and Merry Be, JC