The Magazine–a really excellent digital periodical–is doing a Kickstarter to fund an annual print edition. You should *really* consider kicking in $30, like, immediately to get a copy. Barring that, $15 is a great deal–gets you a one-year subscription at about 40 percent off–and even a buck or five helps.
That annual print edition–which is really the brass ring on this one–is gonna be a big, fat hardcover with 130 of the most-notable articles, color glossy pictures, the whole shebang. Here’s a layout preview–which happens to feature the first article I wrote for them, about the world’s greatest aftermarket “lens” for doing old-school pinhole photography with catching-edge consumer-grade digital cameras. Backers who come in at $30 or more (as of this writing) will get the hardcover, plus DRM-free digital editions of the book. (You can back at a lower level and still get some pretty sweet swag, though. For example, if you come in at $15 you get a one-year subscription, which normally retails for ~$20–and costs, like, $24 if you buy it monthly, like I do, because I’m a damn rube).
If you’re one of this “I Give a Damn About the Future of Long-Form Journalism and Think Pieces,” then you should be backing this project; The Magazine is basically the only forward looking periodical I’ve come across. They pay well, and the editors are meticulously ethical, extremely scrupulous, and great to work with–every story becomes the best possible version of itself.
Also, *DISCLOSURE* if this project funds, I’ll get a reprint payment of a couple hundred dollars. They don’t *have* to do this–not with the contract I signed; they’ve already paid me for the work. They are *choosing* to do this because it’s the right thing to do. Like I said, if there’s a future in this non-fiction thing, The Magazine is that future.
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