Colorado Central is a small regional monthly magazine founded in 1994 by Martha and Ed Quillen of Salida, Colorado.
Our goal, aside from making some money at home in our spare time is to publish an interesting and informative magazine which builds a sense of place, a regional community, and a local culture in Central Colorado and the San Luis Valley.
We like good writing about the places we care about, and we're blessed that there are many good writers in this part of the world.
The best way to understand the magazine is to read it. If you're in our territory, your local bookstore may have copies for sale at $2.50 (both Tattered Covers in Denver also carry it).
You can also peruse our archives on the website, and examine a past edition in Adobe Portable Document Format (you need Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is free, though).
Or you can try our no-risk subscription offer. You order the subscription and we send you a bill for $20. If you don't pay in a reasonable time, we quit sending the magazine.
Most publications in Colorado mountain tourist zones have free distribution, while we charge. It isn't entirely out of greed. Our theory is that if you have free distribution, then all your income must come from advertisers, and that means their interest has to come first in making publishing decisions.
We try for a 50-50 income ratio, so that subscribers' interests are just as important. The Latin roots of "subscribe" mean "underwrite," and we like to think of our subscribers as the people who truly "underwrite" this enterprise.
We try not to think of our subscribers as a demographic collection of purchasing habits, so we do not collect such information.