[sac-board] Re: Newsletter
- From: Peter Argenziano <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 17:16:50 -0700
Just to clarify, Steve... the club isn't generating revenue from the
distribution of mailed newsletters, rather it
represents a net expense.
A bargain-rate quick printing establishment would charge about $2 per issue to
print the newsletter. So, if we only do
11 issues annually (no December issue, as has been the history) - that comes to
$22 in printing costs. Postage varies
between 42¢ and 60¢ per issue, which comes to $4.62 to $6.60 annually. So, for
each recipient of a mailed newsletter,
the newsletter-only member pays $14, while it costs the club between $26.62 and
$28.60. I'm not sure that is a
sustainable subsidy.
Granted, I have been able to get them printed at no expense to the club in the
past... I'm just not sure I want to
continue this (or even encourage it). That's why my vote would be for those
members wanting a printed copy mailed to
them - they should pay the actual cost.
The prices cited above are for printing in black on 75 gsm bond paper. Printing
in color on higher quality paper would
probably quadruple the printing expense.
Peter
On 2/28/11 12:30 PM, Steve D. wrote:
> If we do 1 and 2, we may as well eliminate the "NL Only" membership fee and
> category. How many of these do we have? How much, if any, revenue would we
> lose?
> I'm against 3 because some of my GCSPNR volunteers do not have email, and are
> not online at all and therefore would be out of luck vis-a-vis the NL.
>
> Steve Dodder
> Chairman, SAC Novice Group
> Coordinator, Grand Canyon Star Party, North Rim
> Director, Stone Haven Observatory
>
> fester00@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> http://www.stonehavenobservatory.com
>
>
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>> From: rharshaw2@xxxxxxx
>> To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [sac-board] Newsletter
>> Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:05:17 -0700
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>> Board,
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>> I'd like your okay for a couple of ideas.
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>> (1) Make the newsletter available n/c to all science teachers in the
>> State. (Walt Thomas is looking into whether or not there is such a email
>> distribution list and whether or not the state education department would
>> let us use it.)
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>> (2) I'd like to put the CURRENT version of the newsletter on the web page
>> for viewing by the public the month it is released. That is, put March's NL
>> on the web page this month, not in 3 or 6 months.
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>> (3) I'd like to discontinue all printed copies of the NL. With the March
>> issue, I'd like to mail the few we do and include a cover letter stating
>> that this is the last hard copy issue they will receive, and that if they
>> want to continue to receive issues, they need to supply us with an email
>> address.
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>> Can you please chime in on these points with your thoughts ASAP? I'd like
>> permission to do this starting March.
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>> Richard Harshaw
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>> Cave Creek, Arizona
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>> Brilliant Sky Observatory
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