I LOVE Print on Demand - I love how it has completely democratised the whole publishing process. No longer do we have to wait for a book deal - we can now go ahead and be sold on Amazon through createspace or in bookshops with lulu.

Now there is a service especially for producing and distributing magazines called MagCloud.

The magazines are printed on a “80# matte text stock that is FSC-certified and 50% recycled — 10% post consumer waste and 40% pre-consumer waste.” You supply an 8.5″x11″ original and they trim it down to a final size of 8.25″x10.75″. You can have any number of pages between 4 and 60 (and it must be a multiple of 4).

Here is an example magazine put together by the University of Arizona’s Dream|Reality Print Project:

All you need to do is upload a formatted PDF. MagCloud charge 20 cents a page and then you can put your own markup - they sell directly to your audience and mail it to them and send you your markup directly. Too easy!

Unfortunately, they have yet to work out a subscription service but they are working on it!