Re: Flagship #74

From: casbahcarl@aol.com (CasbahCarl)

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

Carol Mulholland Wrote:

> Nah, we don't ask for the return of Manhattan, just 17.50 pounds for
> 4  issues or 25.00 pounds for 6 or 45.00 for 12, with the pound
> currently  at $1.60. For that you get an issue by airmail every 2
> months.

Hey, we bought Manhattan fair and square. I've got the receipt somewhere around
here. Just don't ask me about any tea shipments, though. ;)

Hmmm, I don't know, Carol. 40USD still sounds a bit high for an annual
subscription of six issues.

> Yeah, the previous editor investigated an email version, but someone
> pointed out to him that email culture is freebie-orientated, and
> that  we'd end up with around 5 paid subscribers who'd think nothing
> of forwarding the file to all their friends.

Possibly, I suppose, though people are willing to send money to play email
games. Presumably you'd lower your subscription fees to reflect lower printing
and mailing costs. Though, of course as you mentioned, you'd need to have a
certain base of subscribers to make this cost-effective.

> Personally, I don't think that text-heavy documents like Flagship
> translate well to email. A pain to read and down-load, because the
> medium is so different. If we swapped to email I think we'd need a
> different format.

Whoa, have to disagree here. Email is primarily a text-based system. Dozens of
pages of pure text convert to just a few seconds of download time, in contrast
to an image-heavy file. The catch is to print it out. I've got a nice
high-capacity laser printer, so that's not a problem for me. Folks with a
four-minute per page dot-matrix would experience a problem for sure, but
realistically speaking hardly everyone reads every single page and every single
line of any magazine, so everything doesn't necessarily have to be printed.

> So dig into your pocket for a sub, Chuck... You can keep
> Manhattan...

Actually, I live in Washington, D.C. You know, now that I think of it, I notice
some unpaid fines on your record for some arson-related offenses you folks
incurred in this city a while back.  Tell ya what, you send me a free sub and
I'll be willing to overlook that little burning-the-White-House thing as just a
misunderstanding among friends.  ;)

Best wishes,

Chuck

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Re: Flagship #74
Carol Mulholland <Flagship@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000

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Re: Flagship #74
Carol Mulholland <Flagship@flagship-uk.demon.co.uk>
Thu, 23 Jul 1998 00:00:00 +0000