Journal Resubscription
Posted: 20 May 2013, 15:00
I have posted elsewhere that subscription numbers have dropped drastically, and it is no surprise that in these forums the Journal which is only published every four months (and costs money!) has rapidly become the poor relation of a thread that gets updated four times a week. I'm due to start work next month on Journal 51 and in the words of Fagin (from the musical Oliver) 'I'm reviewing the situation'.
I currently have masses of back issues in stock of the last five Journals - over 50 copies of two of them! In the past six months just three new members have bought back issues, and it seems to be a poor use of Society money to have so many back issues lying around that will never be bought. Although I have reduced the print run for each issue, I think a more drastic approach is needed for Journal 51. Some people still resubscribe well after a Journal has been published (sometimes a year later) and in the hope that just one or two of these may be reading this, I just wanted to give due warning that if you do resubscribe in this manner there may well be no copies left. So if you intend to resubscribe please don't end up being disappointed. Only this morning I had a resubscription for Journals 48-50 and these are normally on the form that was tucked in to Journal 47!
I currently have masses of back issues in stock of the last five Journals - over 50 copies of two of them! In the past six months just three new members have bought back issues, and it seems to be a poor use of Society money to have so many back issues lying around that will never be bought. Although I have reduced the print run for each issue, I think a more drastic approach is needed for Journal 51. Some people still resubscribe well after a Journal has been published (sometimes a year later) and in the hope that just one or two of these may be reading this, I just wanted to give due warning that if you do resubscribe in this manner there may well be no copies left. So if you intend to resubscribe please don't end up being disappointed. Only this morning I had a resubscription for Journals 48-50 and these are normally on the form that was tucked in to Journal 47!