Madden,Emily A <[email protected]> asked : > Will we be able to print-off copies > of the entire newsletter in > something like a PDF format or, is it going to be > reformatted to the > degree that articles & topics will be presented in a > more dynamic > environment with hotlinks to individually presented > articles --which, > if the latter, would be cumbersome to compile as a print > newsletter > [and somewhat wasteful in terms of amount of paper needed > to do so] > --since we would have to print each article/column > separately?
Having either misplaced or never received a copy of one of last year's newsletters, I found myself printing off my own copy of an issue very recently. The first thing I noticed was how much more colorful the actual newsletter is before being sent to our publisher. Since I have a color printer at home, I was able to see all of the color, unlike the published copies I've had mailed to me. The paper it was printed on wasn't as nice, but if I wanted to, I could buy beter paper for printing with. As far as missing material goes, there was one noticable difference : the ads. This was particularly glaring when I would end up with an almost blank page (just "AJL Newsletter", the date, and the page number) which would have been a full-page ad in the published newsletter. I would suggest that this is an important factor which needs to be addressed. If online-only editions won't allow ads, that could be a significant loss of revenue, as well as having readers miss out on pre-publication ads for books we'd like to put on our "might purchase" lists. If we do retain the advertising, we might want to charge a bit more to the advertisers, as they theoreticallly would be reaching more readers, above & beyond the AJL membership. B'shalom, Steven M. Bergson Toronto, Canada --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
