New U.S. badminton magazine launches funding campaign

Badminton Monthly is a project led by Kota Morikawa and his friends and could become the first independent U.S. badminton magazine. The team is using a new form of financial support for a sport media source: they are calling upon their potential readers to fund their first editions to get the magzine going.

“With your help, we hope to raise enough money to publish our first issue in November so that we may further develop the sport of badminton by publishing timely stories, promoting the sport, and bringing all the players together. For your convenience, Badminton Monthly will be offered in both print and e-magazine formats, and will be published every month to satisfy your badminton fix. We wish we could offer the magazine for free, but the reality of publishing and shipping costs prohibits us from doing so.  With the money we raise from pledges, we look to offset some of those costs so that we can bring you the best magazine we can create,” Morikawa states on the website, which is already running. In a short introduction video, Tony Gunawan, Howard Bach and U.S. Olympic coach Ben Lee all praise the new magazine to be.

If you want to be part of the adventure, you can send some funding (different levels of membership and help, from US$1 to US $10,000) on their official website.

Badmintonphoto has pleadged to give Badminton Monthly free, unlimited access to its archives for the first editions to help the magazine’s kick off.

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