You can now create your own magazine for nothing.  You can even sell it online.  Having a budget for printing is no longer an excuse.

MagCloud is research project evaluating new web services that will provide small independent magazine publishers, online content owners, and small businesses the ability to custom publish digitized magazines and economically print and fulfill on demand.

Check out this Professional Speaking magazine.  You can preview it before buying.  Everything is digital.  Very cool.

Issuu isn’t a research project.  It is beyond that and is fully up and running and has thousands and thousands of user created magazines.

Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you’d normally find on print. It’s the place where YOU become the publisher: Upload a document, it’s fast, easy, and totally FREE. Find and comment on thousands of great publications. Join a living library, where anyone finds publications about anything and share them with friends.

I like Charged issue 8.  Good article on Twitter (page 8).

Are you an artist?  Publish your own magazine with your artwork.  Do you want your own comic book?  Or do you want to create a travel magazine about your last trip?

The technology is there only your innovation is the limit.