[LINK] Open publishing strike - editorial board resigns

[Jan Whitaker]

At 02:43 PM 1/04/2013, Kim Holburn wrote:

>That was along the lines I was thinking.  There are various ways POD 
>printing could be applied without the printing costs being born by 
>the publishers.

There are some interesting social group side effects in this, so it's 
not as simple as it all sounds. I'm in a hobby group that is quite 
large but dwindling, losing about 50% of the members over the last 
5-6 years. The monthly mag is not sustainable as a print format, so 
the group went to a lower costing CD/DVD version posted to members. 
It is a computer focused hobby group, so you would think this would 
be OK. Well, not exactly. And I must admit, I didn't read it either. 
Then there was a shift to online PDF format with a download approach. 
Again, the number of downloads per month is far less than the member numbers.

For this group of people, print still has perceived value, mostly for 
portability.

Just sayin'...

Jan



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