Robert Read had an excellent post on the ELNA webs ite on the idea of a Foundation to promote Public Domain publishing. In a comment to that post I asked What motivates Esperanto authors?

One thing I said was:

What actually motivates a person to produce an original work of literature in Esperanto? It's not to make money. It's because the author wants to say something--because the author wants to participate in the grand discussions that are esperantujo.

What I thought would be most effective would be:

creating a circumstance where public domain and creative commons works are widely read: where they are reviewed and discussed (and perhaps even published as physical books).

This page is to discuss a possible step in that direction: an on-line Esperanto-language magazine.

There are, of course, plenty of on-line Esperanto magazines, and plenty of on-line collections of Esperanto prose and poetry that are not organized as magazines. This is an attempt to organize my thoughts about how this project would be different, how it would fit in with the others, and how it would promote the goals of encouraging the creation of interesting Esperanto prose and poetry and of making it available.

Goals

My magazine

Content

Science fiction and fantasy (because that's what I like to read).

Each issue might have
  • one new story
  • one public-domain (pre-1923ish) or later but cc-licensed story
  • one new poem
  • one public-domain or cc-licensed poem
  • some number of reviews of other on-line Esperanto prose or poetry.

Need to have a copywriter, because my Esperanto isn't good enough to fix-up other people's prose...

Story selection preferences

  1. Good stories.
  2. Stories originally written in Esperanto (not translations of national language stoies).
  3. Among the new stories, prefer those not previously published.
  4. Among the old stories, prefer those not already easily found in anthologies, chrestomathies, etc.

Budget

Most Esperanto publications don't pay for stories, but I think they should, so I'd like to start a trend of doing so. It would just be a token sum, perhaps $10 for non-exclusive rights to post the story on the web. Based on that, the annual budget for 3 issues a year might be:

Domain name $12
Web hosting $60
New stories $30
Old stories $0
Total $102