I did briefly look at distribution companies for an institution that I could use for my magazine, I looked at the magazines that I was looking at and "songlines" is an e-magazine that a lot of inspiration came from and I noticed that they only have 8 issues a year which are subscriptions. Songlines dont actually have a distributon company behind them, which is probably what I would do for my magazine because it is quite unique and wouldnt have a huge population of readers it so it would probably be more appropriate to have an independent distribution company. I have also made it accesible to subscribe to my magazine which might bring in a larger audience because I found that quite a few people at my college read online magazines.
I also looked at "The Fly" which is another music magazine that I looked at, which again is an online magazine so it does'nt have a distribution company, however unlike "Songlines" you dont have to pay anything to read the magazine online and there are 12 issues evey year which is what I thought would be more appropriate for my magazine.
I did however want to look at a magazine that wasnt online so I looked at NME because it is a very popular magazine amongst young readers and it is successful, therefore I looked in to the magazine for some influence for my magazine. IPC is the distributor behind NME and overall they have over 60 brands and around 26 million readers. If I had made my magazine more commercial and with a more popular genre of music then I would most likely have gone with IPC but because my magazine genre is folk I think going with an independent distribution company.
I did look at an independent magazine which is called "Indie" which even though it is more of a style magazine than music, it is quite relevant for my magazine because it is simple and which could be another magazine that my readers could also read to get influences from.
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