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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Seeker95" data-source="post: 3600378" data-attributes="member: 17186">I suspect the opposite.  I'll bet the number of subscribers after one year of DI will be many times higher than the number of Dragon subscribers.  The overseas subscriptions alone will more than make up for the print-Dragon revenue no longer being earned. If only 30,000 people outside the US (and ZERO people in the US) subscribe to the DI, it will make more *profit* than the print versions in production cost savings alone.  No shipping charges. No customs charges. No printing costs. No packaging costs. No print-run calculations. No warehouse storage costs. No rising paper costs and no decreasing paper quality concerns.Compete?  DI, if done only marginally well, will blow the pants off Dragon and Dungeon print magazines in terms of profit.Then there's the contributor benefits. Authors and artists will get greater exposure globally.  Authors won't have to see one-third of their article edited out simply because the editors had to make room for the ads.From the user perspective, if I lived in Australia (or anywhere besides the US), I would jump all over an online Dragon subscription, because the cost of getting my $6 US-in-the-US magazine is far greater when it has to ship to me.  And if I am on the message Boards, I don't have to be almost a month behind the conversations waiting for my magazine.(I was/am a Dragon subscriber.  I love the magazine.  But I love it for its content, not its format.  If the content is available in the DI, I'll be happy.)</blockquote>

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