<VV> The future of publishing?

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  Good one...  here's the digital version of Hemmings (April 2008)

  http://www.hemmingsdigital.com/hemmings/200804/

  Regards,


  Tony I. 


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Schug" <bwschug at att.net>
To: "VirtualVairs" <VirtualVairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 8:43 AM
Subject: <VV> The future of publishing?


>I love my Communiques, and my Quarterlies, and my Windmills, and my  
> CORSA News, and my Turbo-Aire Topics, and my CORSA News -  
> Preliminaries, and my Preliminary Newsletters. Yes, I have the whole  
> set of CORSA publications, except for the first one after Preliminary  
> #4, the unnamed, Volume 1 Number 1, September 1970, "This Monthly  
> Bulletin is not yet permanently named.", which I would pay dearly for.
> 
> But what is the future of publishing? Everyone thinks CORSA should  
> reduce expenses, but there's really not much left to cut. Contrary to  
> some opinions, the Directors don't get expenses anymore, etc., etc.  
> Certainly the publication of the Communique is a major expense.
> 
> Converting the Communique to an all-electronic format, e-mailed to  
> members would save a lot of money, but none of the money required to  
> create the Communique. Nevertheless, in a hundred years, "publication"  
> won't be at all like it is today, I think we all would agree with  
> that. How soon this conversion happens, I don't know.
> 
> To understand what is going on in this area you may be interested in  
> these two news articles:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/y89npce
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/yhj78ht
> 
> 
> Bruce
> 
> Bruce W. Schug
> Treasurer, Membership Chairman
> CORSA South Carolina
> CORSA member since 1980
> Performance Corvair Group
> Stock Corvair Group
> VirtualVairs
> FastVairs
> '67 Monza, "67AC140"
> bwschug at att.net