Ian Burkinshaw wrote, on 27/Mar/13 17:46 | Mar27:
Sad though this is, I have to say it seems me inevitable this was going
to happen sooner or later. The constant increase in postal rates is self
defeating, the more they go up, the less poeple send.
Really - so one leg is sending letters (8-)#
You mean 'fewer' of course.
It is one of the most common verbal mistokes nowadays, from *everyone*!
Look at Christmas
cards, card pennies, post 40p, just out of step. I bet we have all cut
back on Christmas cards, for this reason. Many professional producted
magazines are going down the same road to electronic, to keep costs
under control. So we are not alone with this issue.
I have also to say writing for QLToday spured me on to write my hardware
articals. It was a focal point as a publication and deadlines. Without
deadlines we all go I will do that next week, then is two weeks and so
it goes on and it never gets done.
As to Quanta magazine, it is not the same. The Quanta magazine format
does not lend itself to 2,500 word with pictures articals. It is what it
is a club magazine. However I do have some idea's for relativly short
articals, that was I was going to write for QLToday. So they may appear
in the Quanta magazine.
Back to a QLToday replacement, my personal prefence would be a pdf based
publication. Since it would still offer the focus, that to me web sites
don't give.
The only issue with pdf or any other electronic format, is are we
casting asside people who still use QL's and are just not interested in
the internet, or have connection (slow) problems.
The Raspberry PI has a pdf magazine, worth looking at to see what they
do. http://www.themagpi.com/
Yes - that was mentioned a while back.
For a paper copy, is it were like Quanta and folded A4 - ie A5 pages,
then I have hardware set up to do print and fold staple such booklets.
One way around the German postage issue woudl be to print copies in the
UK. I have suggested that to Jochen in the past, but as he says it is
not just a postage issue.
Oh were it that simple.
Tony
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