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My distribution plan consists of an online social media account. I created an Instagram for my magazine to advertise our food magazine. I also would like to use the traditional way of distributing magazines which is to portray them in a store near by. When magazines are shown in a store, many people walk past them and they could catch their eyes and be interested in the magazines. However, I would only distribute my magazine to stores near by, because my magazine would not be useful in other states because it targets one specific area in Florida. I would also like to use a billboard to advertise my magazine because when people are driving the big signs captivate people's eyes which can bring lots of customers to buy our magazine. We created a social media account named Taste of Sarasota which will feature many different restaurants and dishes. Right now we are creating our Seafood Edition magazine, so we are trying many different seafood restaurants around Sarasota and advertisin...

The Food and Wine magazine also features their magazines in Ebooks. Ebooks is available on all tablet devices, including Ipad, Kindle, and NOOK. Ebooks target people who love to read or just have tablets; they target people who enjoy cooking or who would just like to learn new recipes that they could cook at home. I could use their distribution techniques by distributing my own magazine and selling it to the Ebooks so that they could advertise it to people who have Ebooks and it could intrigue many people. https://www.foodandwine.com/ebooks

I made a few revisions, since my 2nd quarter submission post. For my cover page, I changed the font of the main title and sub title so that it would stand out more to readers. The font that I used at first for the title, was a very typical font that many people use, and I wanted my magazine to be different and pop out more than others. I also changed the color of the font to white so that the title would pop more and t would be easier to read with the picture in the background. For the Table of Contents, I fixed my pictures on the right side of the page so that the sides are all equal and in line with each other. I also added a page number at the bottom of the page. For the 2 page article, I fixed the article so that it would be in two columns, this way it would be easier to read and a lot more organized. I spread out the words in each column so that all of the words line up and are equal so it looks way more neater. I also including some page numbers at the bottom of both of t...

For my 2 page article, I changed my article to be in 2 columns so that it would look more organized, I also added page numbers to the bottom of the pages. I spaced the two columns to be equal and in line on each side so that it would look more neat and organized.

The Food Network has a very similar target audience to my magazine. We both are trying to intrigue people who enjoy cooking or people that just want to learn new recipes or meals to cook either for big events or even just for at home meals. I could use their techniques by distributing my magazine through social media. I would use this technique by creating a business magazine account and sharing it to the public so that more people can hear of my magazine.

The Food and Wine magazine has a very similar target audience to my magazine. Both of us are targeting people who enjoy food or enjoy cooking. The Food and Wine magazine also includes a section of Travel where it includes several different restaurants in all different places, this is super similar to my magazine because my magazine includes different restaurants, however it is within one town instead of all around the world. I could use their distribution model of a website, I like the way that they formatted their website. I could use the method of using many site links connected to the cover/home page of the website. and include a drop down menu which includes just recipes, or just restaurants to visit within our wonderful town. https://www.foodandwine.com/

For the Table Of Contents, the only thing I changed was the size of the pictures on the right size to make them all even and proportional to each other, as well as adding a page number to the bottom of the page.

For the cover of my magazine, I expanded my picture so that the picture takes up the whole frame of the magazine on the front page. I also changed the font of the main title and subtitle in the top center of the cover, as well as the color of the words. I decided to use white text instead of black because the black text blended into the surroundings in the picture and it was hard to read. I also rearranged a few textbooks so that it would be able to see what the text says better.