JAMPOT

[dave16mct]

I went for the digital magazine because I has so many paper copies, boxes full going back to 1975. I decided to get rid of them all. Saves me building an extension on the house!
Dave.

[SPRIDDLER]

I hang on to the last 5 or 6 just so that I can give them away to visitors to our section stand at the Ardingly Classic Bike shows.

[Rob Harknett]

......by your calculation the majority have the ability to download the digital copy.

There is absolutely no way I would bother to read a digital magazine. The same as I can't enjoy books on a Kindle. There's something tactile and personal when relaxing with a brew and a hard copy as opposed to an anonymous and sterile computer screen.

Too right Neville, you can't put your tea cup down on a digital copy can you. Not only that , my PC has landscape screen.

[SPRIDDLER]

Too right Neville, you can't put your tea cup down on a digital copy can you. Not only that , my PC has landscape screen.

Cuh! You're so right, Rob. There's not much we over 70's don't know about trendy technology; 60 years ago I said that the blackboard and chalk was just a fad.

[Janet]

Too right Neville, you can't put your tea cup down on a digital copy can you.

You can if you save it to a cd first.

[Rob Harknett]

Too right Neville, you can't put your tea cup down on a digital copy can you. Not only that , my PC has landscape screen.

Cuh! You're so right, Rob. There's not much we over 70's don't know about trendy technology; 60 years ago I said that the blackboard and chalk was just a fad.

Yea just a fad. Don't need chalk to throw at kids in school now to get attention. Not at history classes I have taken, all very well behaved children. http://www.roydon.essex.sch.uk/166/imag ... roydon-rob

[Reynard24]

"Don't need chalk to throw at kids in school now to get attention." You were lucky - maths teacher at my school used to throw desks if you weren't paying attention. Ah, them were t'days.

[Eamonn]

Surely in this day and age the drive should be towards digital subscriptions - can the hard copies really be produced and distributed for only an additional £4 per year?

You're looking at the wrong way around! The digital PDF is a by-product of producing the printed magazine, so if the printed version wasn't produced there would (currently) be no PDF to send out...
The difference in cost reflects the savings made by not posting the magazine (though it's debateable whether the postage charges for the magazine are now higher than £4 per year!)

The notification of distribution on the forum would seem to be a solution and by your calculation the majority have the ability to download the digital copy.

I agree, it would seem that way... Personally I think that making an online version of the magazine available for members to download if they wished would be a good idea. Those that didn't have access to the online would still get their paper copy and those that had paper copies and were online could select either option to get their information.

Having said that, I'm obviously biased as my day job demands that I'm online and computer literate - so the decision cannot be mine alone. Equally it could be argued that even if everyone who viewed this thread agreed it would be a good idea, we're effectively "preaching to the converted" and so our desires don't reflect the majority.

Perhaps it's a proposal that should be discussed at the AGM by the membership present?

So whose going to put forward the proposal to the club secretary?

[Janet]

So whose going to put forward the proposal to the club secretary?

I think I see a fundamental flaw in your question.

[cbranni]

I am digital member of the Panther Owners Club for this current year but will go back to hard copy next year, purely for the same reason as Neville.

Colin