When I published the first issue of the Productive Magazine, many people asked about a print version. I went with Lulu and published a print version there. However, it turned out to be quite expensive.

Enter Magcloud - the new service of publishing print magazines

I signed up for Magcloud (as per suggestion of several of my readers) and posted both issues of the magazine there and they both turned out to be pretty affordable (and full color at that!), just have a look:

Productive Magazine Issue #2 is only $7 bucks!

So at a cost of a beer you can get a nicely color-printed version of your favorite magazine.

Productive Magazine Issue #1 is only $9 bucks!

This one is two bucks more expensive than issue #2 because it’s bigger in size. Still, three cups of coffee and it’s yours to have.

My question to you my dear readers - would you buy a printed version of the Productive Magazine? Does it even make sense for me to set it up for you? Do you print the magazine by yourself?

It’s Sunday and a weekly review day for me… but I’m still excited about our launch of the magazine… which is constantly pulling a nice healthy 1K downloads per day without any big promotion activities yet! (Thanks to everyone who downloaded!)

Did you think about PRINTING it out?

We’ve done our best to make sure the magazine is quite printer-friendly and so we’ve focused on not including too many background images (and not too few, so that the magazine still looks beautifully).

I’ve heard from some of the readers that they’ve had a great success printing out the magazine and they’ve included it in their “weekend readership” lists. Have a great read! A cup of tea, nice armchair and the first issue of the Productive Magazine - how about that?

How about ordering a PRINTED version from lulu?

Since our magazine is one big (and successful so far) experiment, I decided to also play around at lulu.com and see how it turns out printed. I’ve prepared two versions:

1. Full-color Productive Magazine with Full-color cover
   
2. Black and White version with Full-color cover
   

We’ve tried to set the price bar low and we’re just getting a few bucks on these printouts to dedicate towards the second edition of the magazine. I just want to know if any of you would be interested in this kind of non-digital distribution. Please let me know!

It’s $19.95 for the full color version and $12.95 for the Black and White version (with full color cover).

Remember, you can always download the PDF version for free and print it out yourself.

Which will you do? Read on the screen? Print out? Order printed version? Please let me know in the comments below!