Backwoods Home Magazine
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Press Release
Backwoods Home Magazine is giving away its E-issue 

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Backwoods Home Magazine is pleased to announce it is now offering the electronic version of it's bi-monthly print publication as a free download to everyone who visits their popular website http://www.backwoodshome.com/index.html | 

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BHM-E, as the electronic issue is known, is produced in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF).
This format can be read on any computer using the free Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available from Adobe at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html |.

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For those who would like to visit or to link directly to the BHM-E page,
the URL is http://www.backwoodshome.com/ |

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Each issue will remain online for four months. Both the current issue and the previous issue of the magazine will be available online. Asked why BHM has decided to give away the electronic issue when it previously charged $10 per year for it, publisher Dave Duffy replied: "It is a calculated risk, a gamble I have been considering for about six months. I'm betting that making the magazine free on the Internet, via what we call our "E-issue," will greatly broaden our readership base without significantly reducing the demand for our paid print magazine. I'm also betting that this increased readership will buy enough of our back issue paper anthologies and CD-ROMs to offset the loss in revenue we'll experience from giving the e-issue away." 

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"There is also a possibility of foreign sales. There are a lot of Canadians who would like to subscribe to us, but the Canadian government makes it prohibitively expensive to sell them a subscription, or to even put the magazine on the Canadian newsstands. So now they'll be able to get it free, and I think they too will buy anthologies and CD-ROMs from us. We also get inquiries from countries like Germany and Australia about how they can get the magazine, but of course they don't want to pay $30 or $40 a year postage to mail it to them. So now they can get the magazine free for a local telephone call, and they can see what great information it has." 

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Backwoods Home Magazine is written for people who have a desire to pursue personal independence, self sufficiency, and their dreams. It offers how-to articles on owner-built housing, independent energy, gardening, self-employment, health, country living, food production, cooking and recipes and other topics related to an independent and self-reliant lifestyle. It is published six times a year from their home office in Gold Beach, on the Oregon coast. 

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The BHM website, www.backwoodshome.com, strives to continue the mission of the print publication on the Internet. Visitors to the site will find articles from the current issue of the magazine as well as hundreds of articles from past issues, all freely available. Other popular features include a newsletter, jokes, letters to the editor, free desktop wallpaper, classified ads, a large links page, and an active Readers' Forum where participants trade information and help or just discuss current issues affecting independence and self-reliance. 

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Magazine and editorial email inquiries should be addressed to editor@backwoodshome.com.
Email regarding the website should be sent to webmaster@backwoodshome.com.
Dave Duffy Publisher
Backwoods Home Magazine P.O. Box 712 Gold Beach, OR 97444 | 541-247-8900

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