Change to Popknits Publishing Schedule
Hello everyone!
Well, I have spent a great deal of time mulling over all possibilities for the continuation of Popknits during this economic downturn. The site is fully-funded by what I make off of advertising revenue and freelance projects that I take on outside of Popknits to pay for designers’ honorariums. As you have probably noticed, there has not been much interest in advertising with Popknits in the first year. I expected as much since our catalog is so small, but it’s time that I scale back the magazine to make things easier on myself and still keep it up and running.
Starting with the upcoming issue, Popknits will be published annually resulting in a Fall/Winter edition and a Spring/Summer edition. All the patterns that I have lined up to publish for the fall with be published in the Fall/Winter issue. This means that instead of soliciting patterns for the Winter issue, I will skip it all together. My apologies to anyone who was already designing something that they hoped to submit for the Winter issue! Please know that you can still submit it for the S/S 2010 issue since Popknits is season-agnostic.
In the meantime, please think of Popknits when you think of advertising online! I would hate to shut down the publishing schedule entirely but my gut tells me that if advertising revenue does not come in for the next two issues, I will have to do so. Thankfully, hosting the site is a minimal expense that I can handle for a long time and published patterns here will never just disappear. Let’s just keep positive and hope to keep Popknits running for quite some time.
Thank You!
Posted by gleek on 08/06 at 03:40 PM in General News
