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Originally Posted by srfc1928
in my opinion yes especially if the content is a lot better than match programs. the beauty with fanzines is that they are not censored compared to a match program.
We have a new fanzine editor this season so edition no 11 will be on its way out soon!!:)
Negligably. Fanzine sales tend to be a tiny fraction of total programme sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by srfc1928
Rovers had a number of fanzines in the early to mid-nineties but the internet forums seem to have replaced them. My own favourite was the wonderful Hoops Upside Your Head.
I reckon it could be more of match programmes affecting fanzines sales.Quote:
Originally Posted by srfc1928
It's changed ownership. It's now more Pheonix magazine than LoI satire. It's...different. I don't understand what's going on half the time to comment more than that! But the lad behind it now has sold 50 annual subscriptions or something, so that's a few hundred quid for the club, which isn't to be sniffed at.Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Was he doing it at the end of last season too? I thought he only started doing it this season.
Last issue of last season was his first.
Danny I think, I said I'd help him out with it. NMPP is truly the greates of them all, the best cover ever has to beQuote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
http://www.iwoto.com/scrapbook/NMPP%20Issue%2012.jpg
It wouldn't be a great title for a Dundalk fanzine.. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by shefellover93
If the positioning and commercial strategy is wrong, yes. At UCD (not a barometer of anything I know), our programme is €2 and when you ask the guy for €1 for the fanzine, most will hand it over out of the change of a fiver we have just given him.Quote:
Originally Posted by srfc1928
We also sold annual STIG subscriptions this year for a fiver - a 44% discount on retail price. Annual subscribers get the fanzine by email which cuts down on production hassles.
And if this gets even 2 or 3 people to start tipping up to games it is well worth while
Lad ? It's been 15 years since I have been called "lad" - thank you kind sir.Quote:
Originally Posted by pineapple stu
In terms of content, the intent is to get people in work and the IFSC and surrounding areas to buy annual subs, to get the thing by mail and, ultimately website (if I can follow John 83's excellent instructions around filezilla), and in that regard, the thinking (to the extent that there was any) is to have the subject matter sufficiently broad to interest the non LOI merchant.......
As I say, to the extent that there was any strategy in this process, that was it !!
Which one did you get ?Quote:
Originally Posted by GuisaSaigon
Aware of the reasons behind the decision alright. And I thought you'd enjoy a bit of nostalgia, lad. ;)
Obviously, subscriptions are much appreciated, which reminds me to get onto O'Neills to spend the money.
GUISA would have gotten the last issue of last year, I assume (last game)
Prob the Obama cover, with the Yes We Can thing where we were struggling for content - much better production nowadays
GUIUSA pm me your email address and we will send across the 3 editions this season so far !
Below is the cover of the most recent issue of IWOTOQuote:
Originally Posted by blue til i die
You can read that issue and all the 2008 issues online at http://www.iwoto.com/backissues.htm
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/iwoto/cover29.jpg
Heres IWOTO's 2007 version of that classic NMPP cover
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y210/iwoto/cover21.jpg
I suddenly remembered this post for no reason. Didn't Pete Goulding publish poetry in the Shels rag?Quote:
Originally Posted by razor
He kindly let Stig republish his Belfield Lament.
Still does regularly.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Just being pedantic, it's in the programme - not the RI Fanzine.Quote:
Originally Posted by John83
Blues Til I Die was a fanzine some years ago before moving to the web and morphing into a forum.
But a new Waterford one has started this year, Two Balls No Cup or something along those lines. Made a very good start, and I think issue 2 is due soon.
Good name!Quote:
Originally Posted by stann