I found this article of great interest many years ago, and still occasionally send wannabe publishers there. Pretty much everything is still true, and a professional (online) magazine will still knock you back at least ten thousand dollars these days. (Or over a hundred thousand). You can do it much cheaper, of course, maybe closer to four thousand dollars, if you pay three cents a word, and keep everything else relatively trim, and run it monthly, with about four stories a month, or forty-eight stories a year. Or even bimonthly, which would translate to twenty-four hundred dollars, and twenty-five stories. Or quarterly, at sixteen-hundred dollars, and sixteen stories.
As an aside, it'd be nice to see some more other categories represented online, particularly horror.
As an aside, it'd be nice to see some more other categories represented online, particularly horror.