06-12-2020, 12:36 PM
From the replies so far there seems to be stronger support for a printed magazine than I had expected and those replies are all from people with online access!
Ruairidh – I wasn't judging the financial running of the PWA7 club and to be fair to them the figures I used were from an article explaining why the membership fee was having to rise by £8 to balance the books. I was just surprised how expensive the monthly magazine is and how it left the club with little money to support the A7 movement in other ways.
The ScA7C experience of emailing the magazine for £5 is the sort of thing I thought might be possible and at that sort of price I would be happy to read several other club magazines without wanting to be a member of those clubs.
The figures Tony Press gave for the Light Shaft magazine are interesting. If a similar uptake of just under 50% for an online version of the PWA7C magazine could be replicated the club would have about £14,000 to spend in other ways – enough, for example, to buy and support a new loan car every year.
Ruairidh – I wasn't judging the financial running of the PWA7 club and to be fair to them the figures I used were from an article explaining why the membership fee was having to rise by £8 to balance the books. I was just surprised how expensive the monthly magazine is and how it left the club with little money to support the A7 movement in other ways.
The ScA7C experience of emailing the magazine for £5 is the sort of thing I thought might be possible and at that sort of price I would be happy to read several other club magazines without wanting to be a member of those clubs.
The figures Tony Press gave for the Light Shaft magazine are interesting. If a similar uptake of just under 50% for an online version of the PWA7C magazine could be replicated the club would have about £14,000 to spend in other ways – enough, for example, to buy and support a new loan car every year.