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Subject:RE: The STC and me From:"Goldstein, Dan" <DGoldstein -at- DeusTech -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:36:14 -0400
I think Karen's discussing an *optional*, online-pubs-only membership.
However, publications made up less than 17% of expenses in 2003, so going
paperless still wouldn't save that much.
You speak of printing, Chuck (from PDF?), but a proper layout for online
viewing might be sufficient for the "e-members." On the other hand, there
might be additional personnel costs involved in creating a proper layout for
online viewing. PDF is cheaper.
Dan Goldstein
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Martin
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2004 1:18 PM
> To: TECHWR-L
> Subject: Re: The STC and me
>
> Karen L. Zorn wrote:
> <snip>
> > Part of STC's reorg efforts are to bring the membership fees into
> > line with how the members *use* STC. One of the options, an online
> > distribution of the publications, will help decrease the tremendous
> > expense of mailing the periodicals, especially to members outside
> > North America. For folks who don't go to chapter meetings, for
> > whatever reason, a "non-participating" membership may be of value.
> <snip>
>
> I would say that, for me, if STC resorted to distributing its main
> publications only online, its value would go down, way down.
> Even if I
> duplex printed, the size and weight of the result would be larger and
> heavier to take with me and read.
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