A Plea for Your Help...
Welcome to Issue 18. Firstly, we would like to ask something small from each of you... We know that most of you enjoy our magazines, and that you think the cover price is fair. However, we also know that a minority of our readers have not paid for this magazine, but have downloaded it from either a website, or a company server, and so on. Although we appreciate that this is the way things seem to work today, we cannot stress enough that this isn’t just a case of “a few lost dollars” for us, but is actually affecting Zoo Publishing so much so that we may no longer be able to function in the near future, if this continues. We are only a small company, who makes enough to keep going, and we are far from the global corporation that some may think we are... Each month we see the number of readers of 3DCreative and 2DArtist magazine rise, but sales seem to go further and further down. We believe that getting a 150+ page magazine each month (with minimal advertising - less than 10% in fact), for a small cost of $4, is more than good value. Understandably we can’t charge much more as it is only a digital publication, but this is also the reason why we may never go to print... If we can’t make the digital version commercially viable then we have little chance of surviving in the print world. As I say, this is nothing to do with the quality of the magazine (at least that’s what we believe), and I simply want to ask you all nicely: please do not copy and re-distribute this magazine. Thank you for taking the time to read this message. Enjoy the magazine! Ed.
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