I have been contacted by the publishers of a soon to launch publication, The Freeman Journal, seeking expressions of interest in receiving copies for free, which can be sold.
Click here to see a mock up. [I removed this because of the comments you can read below.] There is more information at their website.
While this title is not for me, I thought I would share it here for others to consider.
Here is the note from the publisher:
My name is Jack Freeman and I am the director of a luxury online and a soon to be released quarterly distributed print publication The Freeman Journal. With an elite and targeted audience of high net worth individuals, aspirational luxury consumers and frequent travellers.
Thus we were contacting you as we are in the coming months releasing our first quarterly edition and were looking to send free editions to Newsagents across Australia to which may be sold on behalf of agents entirely.
Let me know if interested to participate. I have attached our Media Kit and Mock Up First Edition.
This is an email from the Publishers of The Freeman Journal.
We request this page be removed with all contents including copyright material of a Mock Up Edition.
The document attached is for the sole purposes of Distributors internationally. Any failure to remove the information immediately may result in legal repercussions following a breach of copyright laws.
Please contact me directly in email attached for any further information.
This is weird. They have my email address as they emailed me the mock up and launch kit with no copyright notice. They also have my email address on this blog. If the information was for international distributors I am not sure why they sent it to me other than to inform Aussie newsagents.
Dear Mark Fletcher,
We have been unable to reach you with no contact information available.
An accidental email on the behalf of the director may have been mistaken for Australian distributors.
We would like to inform you of our rights to pursue legal action against “Australian Newsagency Blog” over a direct infringement of private property. We urge you to take down this post to avoid any further action.
Any files transmitted via email are intended solely for the use of the addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential or subject to legal privilege.
Please be aware by copying, distribution or use of email/s is prohibited by The Freeman Journal if you are not the addressee (or responsible for delivery of the email to the addressee).
The contents of this email,shall be destroyed and notify the sender prior to distribution or making a copy.
Kind Regards,
Finnian Mullally Muschinski
Finnian I doubt you are that dumb that you cannot find my contact details. My contact details are on the home page for this blog. Threatening me with legal action for publishing material provided to me without any copyright notice is ridiculous.
They is what your email said in part: Thus we were contacting you as we are in the coming months releasing our first quarterly edition and were looking to send free editions to Newsagents across Australia to which may be sold on behalf of agents entirely.
I do not take posts down.
I will remove the link to the mock-up because of your fit but that is it.
Good luck with your projects.
Good luck getting any newsagents to sell this magazine! #fruitcake
DITTO !!!
Interesting sequence of events.
To the original question, yes, I am open minded to all alternatives to current magazine model.
Would I stock Freeman ? Sure, deliveries to be placed in large yellow box behind shops 8-10.
we will top it for early retun