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(...) That looks good, but for the moment, twomorrows don't even process orders from my part of the world. It's still plenty of time left until February 2008, so things might change. What's wrong with using lulu.com? They have printing works on this (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) Have you checked with lulu.com? They do printing in Europe when delivering to Europe, so the shipping charges might be lower. OTOH, I don't know what that would mean for the prize of the magazine, and your margins... (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) **cut** Joe, Keep up the good work, there will be many things to over come and that is normal. There will be many people who will show support and many who will not be so happy with things, that too is also normal. (Hopefully when people see (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) **cut** (...) **cut** Thank you Allan, I don't think too many could put it better than that! I totally agree with your statement, it is the side of the story as I see it too. All good intentions! For others, I am only the European side, and we (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) When I look at the transition of BrickJournal from free to pay I always try to keep in mind the disaster of Bricks magazine. In order to get to the point of a printed magazine (1) Joe had no choice but to start off free. He had to get people (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) I have done volunteer work for quite a few things myself and my motivation is because I like to do things. Money does tend to corrupt. However, money is also a resource that makes many things happen. Like printing. And yes I am looking at (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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"Joe Meno" <jmenomeno@aol.com> wrote in message news:Jq22zo.Mo1@lugnet.com... (...) Greed is a strong word (perhaps too strong in this case), but I'm not sure what other word I can use. I've been doing volunteer work for several clubs / (...) (17 years ago, 18-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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Holy crow was that the most convoluted crap website signup ever. I was constantly reloading pages and getting error messages. That is either a really good sign, (lots of people are signing up for subscriptions as I just did,) or a really bad sign. (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) I'm sorry I disappointed you, although I can pretty much say the comment on greed is a pretty cheap shot. (...) That's actually 34 dollars, and I agree it IS high. And I am working on some solutions. (...) I don't have certificate problems, (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) This was a decision that was made after it was pointed out to me by the publisher that a free issue in any form will undercut any selling issue. As for the revenue itself, it will be going to subsidizing print compendiums of back issues. I am (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) A few thoughts: First of all, I'm disappointed that greed has gotten the better of you. Issue one to eight was released free of charge, and should stay free. Secondly, I don't really mind paying for the following issues. That is to say, a few (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) Really? I have received free coffee, chocolates, cable channels, newspapers, magazines, laundry detergent, phone services and dozens more goods and services. Eventually the free trial period ends and if you want access to the goods and (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) That may not true. I am working on that, however, I have no definites. I won't announce until then. Joe (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) That thread was talking about the new issues (from issue 10 onward). I'm talking about the existing issues that were previously made available for free. Once something's been released for free, it seems wrong to me to start charging for it (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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(...) 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 (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) It was a matter of time - the biggest challenge has been getting things lined up. (...) I am working on that - there will be a display ad level and a classified ad level. Classified will have a specific section, like any classified section in (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, FTX)
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In lugnet.publish.brickjournal, Gianluca Morelli wrote: (chop) (...) Gianluca, The issues will be sold online as a PDF. I understand your frustration, and believe me, I am trying to find a solution. I can't offer free PDFs from now on, though. Joe (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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(...) 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 (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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I can't say that I'm terribly upset and that I didn't see this coming. Now that BrickJournal can have real subscribers, the magazine can continue to grow with more advertising. I do hope that the advertising will be cheaper for LEGO based (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal, lugnet.announce, FTX)
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(...) Ok, right. But in this case, don't offer a duty-version of the old PDF issues of Brickjournal, sell just printed copies and delete from Internet all (*) the PDF files. Luca (* on Internet the meaning of the word "all" is not the same of the (...) (17 years ago, 17-Oct-07, to lugnet.publish.brickjournal)
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