We are passionate about print and mad about mags.
We believe in the power and reach of intelligent and soulful journalism, which inspires and ignites curiosity. Our faith rests in the independent print magazine community, which has come to carve a niche for itself in the world of print publications. And above all, we believe that the Indian audience is more than ready to appreciate these eclectic indie titles, which are creating waves around the world. Paper Planes proposes to bring these titles to them.
Paper Planes (www.joinpaperplanes.com) is conceived as an online independent print magazine subscription service. The idea is to offer a monthly/periodic subscription package to readers in India – where they get to indicate the genres of their interest (from amongst our Stacks) and we bring them different indie magazine titles (a curated surprise for them!) from around the world, every month based on their selection.
Paper Planes website went live mid November and we shipped out our first set of surprise titles to our subscribers at the end of November; and now we are getting ready to dispatch our December surprise(s) very soon.
OUR NOVEMBER MAGS:
What’s the plan, you ask. And we say –
a) share the excitement of the world of indie magazines (from New York to Kosovo, Berlin to Beirut & the RoW) with readers in India,
b) introduce the audience to the makers and vice-versa.
c) its not a plan that will save the world – but we hear reading is therapeutic; so we may, in a very small, tiny, nano kind of way actually contribute to the wellness of the world!
Why limit your choice to reading on screen, when we are giving you a perfectly good excuse to curl up in a corner with cup of joe or mulled wine (given the season) and TAKE A BREAK FROM BACKLIGHT?
We are new and excited to be part of the Rodinhood community – we hope to actively contribute as well as benefit from the platform. With this, we welcome ourselves to The Rodinhoods. Cheers!
Do drop by and see what we are upto here:
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Additional info added by asha from the comments section:
There are no titles on display that can be bought off the shelf. What you purchase is our service and we curate these indie titles based on subjects of your interest. To break it down:
(a) at the time of filling the subscription form – you indicate your subjects of interest to us by picking any 3 of the 4 stacks (stacks of genres) or a surprise option;
(b) you can subscribe for a fixed period i.e. 9/18 months (pay upfront) or a rolling monthly option (pay as you go)
(c) Its one magazine a month – so based on your stack selection, we bring you one new title a month. The idea is to allow you to discover new titles. So we aim to not repeat a title for at least 12 months.
(d) Our titles are a surprise ! so no way of knowing which titles are coming your way. However, you can see the previous titles dispatched by us on our website (Magazine profile page) – so you get an idea of the kind of titles we send out. Our titles are selected after thorough research – we are readers just like you and we make sure we do not send something that we ourselves find lacklustre.
(e) Our online store is also going live very soon – here you will find collectible books published by indie publishers, other interesting reads and may also find back issues of some of the titles we previously dispatched to our subscribers.