Splosh Magazine

[NINA]

I've just been looking at the section with the splosh mags and was wondering how often does it come out and where does all the material come from to make it up?

Looks good though so may buy a couple

[BillShipton]

Hi

We don't publish the magazine any more, settling instead for doing downloads and picture sets for this site. The printing bills were driving me to an early grave!

Bill

[NINA]

That's a shame I think as theres nothing like havig a magazine to read in bed instead of looking at everything on computers.

I help out on a friends TV magazine quite a bit and I know she's struggling with the costs of it all too.

Dam the internet.

[sweetsophie]

Hi

We don't publish the magazine any more, settling instead for doing downloads and picture sets for this site. The printing bills were driving me to an early grave!

Bill

Grrr to the printing bills lol
Why cant they make these thing easier...
Although I do totaly understand about the costs I do love the amazing feeling of carefully turning the pages of a high quality fetish magazing
I also love leather obsesion as well as many fetish and rubber magazines
Taking a fetish magazine to bed is something special because nightime is when the naughtiest fantasies come to life
I hope to get my hands on a few more of those splosh magazines floating around

Hugs from Sophie x x x

[BillShipton]

Believe me, I prefer them too - apart from anything else all my 'skills' are in magazine production/writing Also once you've finished producing a magazine it doesn't disappear/crash/stall/get viruses etc etc. But it just isn't financially viable any more with most people using the internet.

Feel free to take our back issues to bed though - they are timeless.

[orangey]

Interesting discussion - The nature of publishing has been going through a revolution in the last 5-10 yrs alot of magazine & newspapers will fall by the wayside over taken by 'free' content and internet channels of distribution. Who thought 15 yrs ago that we would read news off a screen and have free newspapers available..

Perhaps the Splosh magazine format has a future on eBook/Kindle/iPads ?? No huge printing invoices eh Bill!
I think that the introduction of a mainstream (Apple iPad) gadget will really kick start something different in the viewing of previous magazine paper content, especially with the inclusion of internet access on the devices. I too love magazines and it would be great to see another paper Splosh but as Bill says it ain't going to happen - but perhaps an electronic version is???

[sparx104]

Could something like a magazine or newsletter be produced in PDF format?

It would eliminate printing costs and people could print them if they wanted something physical to read (I know it's not the same but it's something).

They could be charged for as it's possible to protect PDFs in certain ways to stop them from being distributed as far as I remember. It's probably possible to watermark them with an email address or something of the person who bought them - doesn't actually stop distribution but does make it obvious/inconvenient. I'm sure most people here would happily pay a small amount for something anyway - it's not like this 'hobby' is free anyway...

[BillShipton]

We sell some of the unobtainable back issues as PDF files on the Greatest Hits Download site. My guess is that the print quality, especially of the pictures, would be too poor to be of interest. But I may be wrong.

[muckypup]

Who knows Apple might revolutionise the publishing market and everyone might start reading full colour interactive magazines on their fancy smancy tablets. Splosh! would be awesome on that

[BillShipton]

As an Apple man, I quite liked the idea of the iPad. iPhones are too small and laptops rather heavy and short on battery life. Not that I can afford one if I get the (much needed) builders in!

If enough people have this or similar gadgets, I'd be happy to go back to being a 'magazine' writer again.

Bill

[orangey]

Wouldn't Splosh be great on an iPad with not only pictures but when you clicked the pic it played a clip as well. It would integrate clips, words & pics really well i reckon..Bring everything together much more neatly..I think the word in the biz is 'convergence' but if I said that i'd sound like a right tosser..

[driversoft]

Wouldn't Splosh be great on an iPad

Idly wonders whether Bill's Studio could be classed as a Pie Pad....