COIN WORLD GOES NON-POSTAL Public Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 5, Number 39, September 29, 2002, Article 3
COIN WORLD GOES NON-POSTAL
William T. Gibbs, News Editor of Coin World writes:
"Regarding the note from Mr. Richard Crosby published
last week: It is true that Amos Hobby Publishing, publishers
of "Coin World," "Linn's Stamp News" and other hobby
publications, lacks the necessary equipment to place their
publications into a "plain brown wrapper" of the sort used
by the publishers of the other magazines mentioned.Because we lack the necessary equipment, our circulation
department cannot provide that service to our subscribers.
Up to now, the best they could do is suggest subscribers
have their issues sent to a post office box. Placing the
issues in an unprinted wrap of the kind sold several times a
year by the advertising department would require additional
postal and paper costs, which would be passed on to
advertisers and subscribers. However, an alternative will
be available soon, when "Coin World" follows in the
electronic footsteps of "Linn's" and begins offering the
complete weekly issue in print and online versions (same
publication, one print and one electronic). Linn's recently
began offering each complete weekly issue online (all
contents, editorial and advertising) as a subscription-based
publication in addition to the standard print edition. We'll
announce details about the online issue of "Coin World"
as they become available, both at our main Web site and
in the print edition of "Coin World."The subscribers to this e-mail publication generally love
traditional literature in all of its printed glory even as they
embrace the immediacy of "The E-Sylum." My own
bookshelves at home (not to mention boxes upon boxes)
are filled with books on many topics. Electronic publishing,
however, is a wave of the future, and "Coin World" is
poised to take its next step into that future.The online edition will offer several advantages: It will get to
subscribers' homes faster than the USPS can get the print
edition to them (moving at the speed of light vs. snail mail).
Subscribers who chose the online-only option will have no
worries about security. Most interesting, I think, to the
subscribers of this journal, we'll gradually build an online,
searchable archive of every article and every advertisement
we publish each week."[A searchable online archive would be nirvana for researchers.
Bring it on! -Editor]- 2002-09-29
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