By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, March 10 at 6:17 AM
We're changing things up a little bit here at PUB DEF. In the six months since we launched this version of our website, traffic has grown exponentially each month, much to our satisfaction. What has not grown is our subscriber base for our weekly print edition. And since we only lost money on printing and mailing the damn thing anyway, we will no longer print and mail a weekly print edition. You will.
From now on, we will be making print(able) editions available to all our online readers for free as PDFs. You can then copy it onto your computer, print it out on your home printer, and share it with others when you're done reading it. Copy, Print, Share.
And for those of you feeling like true activists, the copy and print part can be done at a Kinko's or a locally-owned copy shop like Hi-Tec Copy. Make dozens -- or even hundreds -- of copies and distribute them in City Hall, your office, your apartment building, your dorm, your neighborhood, or just drop a stack at your neighborhood coffee shop. (We look better in color, by the way -- but whatever.)
It's a whole new world we live in, full of opportunities for empowerment. It costs us next to nothing to publish this site. That allows us to get important and exclusive information out to the world and make it free to you. And now it'll cost us very little to produce the print edition, so we're making that free too. You gotta love the Internet.
Now get started. Click here to download last week's issue. Click here for this week's.
3 Comments:
You're advocating using non-union printers?
9:00 AM, March 10, 2006
I am sure the Ink Spot on Hamton will print them for you on one of their copiers. They are Union.
9:49 AM, March 10, 2006
forget the union printers, who cares.
5:54 AM, March 11, 2006
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