http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/26/ideas-are-dime-a-dozen/ Keep coming back, you might find something useful Mon, 07 Dec 2009 09:01:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/26/ideas-are-dime-a-dozen/#comment-135 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 18:45:29 +0000 http://codecutter.blogsome.com/2006/10/26/ideas-are-dime-a-dozen/#comment-135 An upscale movie magazine is a good idea but we need to remember we would be targetting a very niche market. There arent many film buffs who would want to read about the technicalities in film making. I am not discounting the idea of serving a niche market, it can still turn out to be profitable. For e.g. many architecture magazines which talk about interior designing etc still make handsome profits. But those magazines have the libraries and other architecture schools + more affluent students studying there as target market. Whereas film institute students in India live on a shoestring budget and we need not even talk about assistant directors. The problem in India is that, with not much organization to film making in India, it is difficult to maintain even a subscription of 100000. Think about the cost of obtaining such highly technical articles, we need highly paid journalists to write them! An upscale movie magazine is a good idea but we need to remember we would be targetting a very niche market. There arent many film buffs who would want to read about the technicalities in film making. I am not discounting the idea of serving a niche market, it can still turn out to be profitable. For e.g. many architecture magazines which talk about interior designing etc still make handsome profits. But those magazines have the libraries and other architecture schools + more affluent students studying there as target market. Whereas film institute students in India live on a shoestring budget and we need not even talk about assistant directors. The problem in India is that, with not much organization to film making in India, it is difficult to maintain even a subscription of 100000. Think about the cost of obtaining such highly technical articles, we need highly paid journalists to write them!

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