Isaac I will aquote you, and add comments. "The retail price of newspapers does not come into it as the publishers kindly donate their publications for the blind free of charge; I know for a fact that this does not happen in every country!" Yes but this doesn't mean The subscripton we pay, can not go up. "It is important to note that the eText side was the smaller part of the charity activity the audio side was at least ten times bigger in terms of expense and subscriber numbers." But your stats are not same as RNIB.'s stats. See below Neil Heslop, who is RNIB's director of Solutions Said on In Touch few weeks ago. 4,000 customers, majority receive their material on audio via CD. 285 eText service and receive distribution through e-mail. 19 customers receive their material on CD-rom. I will quote more of what Neil said Derek