I work in the print and design industry and this can be done cheaply,let me explain.
First as for the software any good printing house has orowns Adobe's cs4 and there are ways to lock the martieral so only somethings like templates can be printed.
As for making enough cash to pay for itself yes theres risk but there are diffrent ways about.
one sell them at shows, most people like to feel the product in thier grubby little paw to satisfiy there need to hold it,second word of mouth,priced right,and why five years when the mag just had its tenth aniv so if you package full content then you have something worth selling,plus the ANNUAL'S those can be offered as a special if you buy the main disk "Bait".
there are place's online that to have the cd's done from a master copy is only can range price and its not that expensive.
Like modeling people think out side the box and see what can be done!
I would gladly hand my cash to MCM today its not hard or that expensive at all.
most of us have a computer in the hobby room anyways to search refrence online right?? wouldn't it be nice to have the MCM on hand on disk so you can look it up Mainly if you dont have the hardcopy on hand???