RE: [amsat-bb] Journal medium

[Arthur H Feller <afeller@xxxxxxxx>]

At 10:27 PM 22-01-2004, Robert McGwier wrote:
>I bet the facts are that electronic option does not save us money unless
>we do away with paper altogether.

Indeed.

>  But let's assume
>that is 1/3 or 1/2 of the members want paper.

About right.

>  When you cut our already
>small circulation of a few thousand in 1/2, the printer/shipper raises the
>heck out of the incremental cost.

Right again.

>   I would hazard to guess that we are near
>the bottom dollar we can get period right now. We should investigate and get
>the real number but I bet it comes out that we would in fact not save much
>money at all if we have those that insist on getting paper (which is
>inevitable).
>It would of course be easier to argue about this if we had real figures
>from our printer.

Gee, isn't it amazing that someone else had this idea before and that 
Martha got the numbers from the printer?  (She is amazingly 
efficient.)  Bob, you're guestimates are very close to right.

73, art..... 


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