It was published under a Creative Commons license, and was free for download.

[1] In March 2008, SteamPunk Magazine began offering free subscriptions to incarcerated Americans, as a "celebration" of 1% of the US population being eligible.

[2] SteamPunk Magazine was formerly published by anarchist zine publisher Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness[3] in the United States and by Vagrants Among Ruins in the United Kingdom.

The magazine was then published by the worker-run Combustion Books[4] in New York City and distributed by anarchist publishing collective AK Press.

[5] Putting the Punk Back into Steampunk Interviews with: A Journal of Misapplied Technology Contents include: The Sky is Falling Contents include: Our Lives as Fantastic as any Fiction Contents include: Long Live Steampunk!