Publishing My Own Coin Magazine

A monthly "newsletter" might be appreciated. I don't think another magazine would do too well. Unfortunately, everything is going digital these days, even full on libraries. Printed magazines are on the way out.

That being said, I personally prefer print to a computer screen (or ipad or whatever). I would definitely give a newsletter some attention. Maybe some stories about trends in values. Some about a rare coin's history. How to spot a cleaned coin. How to accurately grade a certain series from G through high MS with examples. Stuff like that.

All the info would be available on the internet, but just to have someone choose it for me and get to read about it once a month would be nice.

I do doubt, unfortunately, that any such publication can ever make enough money even if you have advertisers and a subscription base. The numismatic industry is just not that big and there are already too many legitimate competitors.

I've got to agree with hesgut above, in todyas world of costs vs. profit there is not a viable way to make any money out of creating a magazine, I did club newsletters for several clubs and even that can be a challenge to fill up each month. Printing and paper costs have gone up not to mention postage as well. Tough to make it in a print world today.

Check with printers on the costs - both newsprint (tabloid siz and shopper) and 40# white (8.5 by 11) at PIP, ie. I'd like to see you make it but want to caution you on costs. Went through this when I owned a paper in the 80s. Print's a killer.

As already noted it's probably to late for any more magazines, newsletters, etc. The days for such items are fading fast. Note how many newspapers have closed up shop. Same with many magazines. The internet is just making such items a thing of the past.
It's sort of like those that continue to try to use film cameras. Yes there are some but just to outdated. Same with gasoline for our cars which they are already trying to get rid of. I have older cars that require Leaded gas and that is the same thing. Outdated.
One thing not mentioned here is the future of any possible coin info. By that I mean since you are young, you'll probably see the end of coins and currency some day. The usage of coins and currency too all over the world is fading. Again, electronic money usage is the future and sooner than most think.
Now there is something for you to consider writting about. The end of the monitary system.

One word for you: blog

Gads, How could I forget blogs? Had one for years. Try blogspot,com for an easy entre. Used that for 4 years.

Coin A Phrase

by yankee1227

As someone who has been editing/publishing a coin club monthly magazine since 1998, I can attest to this fact: if you want to find out just how good you are at writing articles, try staring at half a dozen blank magazine pages that still need filling while facing a publishing deadline that's only a few days away. Articles which I've written during such stressed-out mad-rush panic-button conditions have been... interesting, to say the least, but I've discovered that they're also the articles that the club members most often give me positive feedback about.