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> > Wow. I'm sorry that you feel this way. I have done the best I can to make
> > things work out for as many people as possible. There are other options that
> > I am looking at to provide issues to everyone, and I am aware of the
> > audiences overseas. But I had to make some hard decisions. This is one of
> > them but it at least allows the option of international subscriptions. I'm
> > sorry that I couldn't do better at this time.
> >
> > Joe
>
> Hi Joe, I know that when you switch from fan-made stuff to "serious" stuff you
> got to make hard choices (especially for money troubles), but not having a
> distribution in Europe is a major issue.
This is not the only problem. Think a second about this: how many Europeans
would still write articles for a US Magazine which is hard/expensive to get in
Europe? Brickjournal will loose not just readers but also writers...
Cheers,
Luca
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Luca Giannitti wrote:
> This is not the only problem. Think a second about this: how many Europeans
> would still write articles for a US Magazine which is hard/expensive to get in
> Europe? Brickjournal will loose not just readers but also writers...
I don't understand what you are saying.
It is neither hard nor expensive to pay $3.95 (that is what, 2.78 Euros at
today's rate?) to get the pdf version. That is what you have been getting all
along. He had to start charging something for the magazine and it is a fair
price for an online publication.
As for a print version, well sure it is expensive but specialty magazines are
always expensive. I work in a library and we have lots of specialty magazines
that cost far more than Brick Journal.
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Ted Godwin wrote:
> In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Luca Giannitti wrote:
> > This is not the only problem. Think a second about this: how many Europeans
> > would still write articles for a US Magazine which is hard/expensive to get in
> > Europe? Brickjournal will loose not just readers but also writers...
>
> I don't understand what you are saying.
>
> It is neither hard nor expensive to pay $3.95 (that is what, 2.78 Euros at
> today's rate?) to get the pdf version. That is what you have been getting all
> along. He had to start charging something for the magazine and it is a fair
> price for an online publication.
The PDF is not expensive, it is expensive to get the printed issue (ok specialty
magazines are expensive, I know) but the worst thing is that Europeans AFOL
cannot buy at all the printed BJ because it is sold only within US.
Luca
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Luca Giannitti wrote:
>
> The PDF is not expensive, it is expensive to get the printed issue (ok specialty
> magazines are expensive, I know) but the worst thing is that Europeans AFOL
> cannot buy at all the printed BJ because it is sold only within US.
>
> Luca
That may not true. I am working on that, however, I have no definites. I won't
announce until then.
Joe
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