This document exists because we want to make sure everyone gets our best answers to common questions--not because we want you to read the FAQ instead of asking questions. If you do have questions about Linux Journal, please contact us.
We do encourage you to read A Letter to Public Relations People by Dan Gillmor.
Yes. Plain text, please.
In general, that's not a good idea.
In general, we work with contributed articles, not staff-written articles. We encourage you to propose a contributed article.
The topics listed in the editorial calendar are general issue themes, not staff-written articles.
Maybe. Please see the Author's Guide for advice on good article topics and sending a query letter.
To have a product considered for review, please contact us with the following information:
- URL for the product page
- Dates the product will be available for review
- E-mail and phone contact information for the person at your company who is responsible for the product review
We highly discourage vendors from depending on Linux Journal reviews or other editorial for their marketing plans. The date that a review runs is not as predictable as a marketing project should be, because the amount of space that we have available varies from month to month. We also work with freelancers for reviews, and we can't guarantee that we won't have to bounce a review back to the author for more work or even reject it entirely.
If you're looking to work with Linux Journal on a promotion that must happen on a certain date, the company does have a whole other department that does that kind of thing and you should contact us.
