[Nfb-editors] Why S & S shouldn't be distributed outside the membership

[Mike Freeman]

In light of present Internet practice, I'll bet you this custom will go away
in a year. If you're going to insist that immediate first access to a Slate
and Style issue be predicated upon payment of dues, you should probably
distribute via individual email or a list of email addresses rather than via
listserv. AS Dave says, these lists are archived and may be read anywhere in
the world.

I personally consider this a self-defeating effort but then I'm not a member
of the Writers' division so my view doesn't count.

Mike


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Robert Leslie Newman
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 8:04 PM
To: 'Correspondence Committee Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Nfb-editors] Why S & S shouldn't be distributed outside the
membership

"Hi you all- The Writers' division Board feels that there should be some
benefits unique to the "paying member." And so with the development of our
Division's website, and our desire to post past issues of "Slate & Style" on
the web for all the world to read --- a vote came down that established a
delaying action to the posting of issues on the web. The thinking is: "We
would give the paying member an exclusive right to have the first look at a
new issue of "Slate & Style." And so when a new issue is published and goes
to the member, the prior issue can then be posted to our site. And so now
with the 2011 Fall being out, the 2011 Summer issue can be uploaded." 

(Yeah, no other NFB publication does it this way. But it is how we are
presently handling it.)


-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfb-editors-bounces at nfbnet.org]
On Behalf Of Bridgit Pollpeter
Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 5:04 PM
To: nfb-editors at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Nfb-editors] Why S & S shouldn't be distributed outside the
membership

Dave and Mike,

Well yes, but if you're not a subscriber to Slate & Style, you're suppose to
pay for a copy- not my rules, the rules established by the division. I post
it here so fellow editors, and Federationist, can peruse it if they wish
even though there's the potential for non-members to access it, but it's not
as likely. When I Google S & S, it comes up on the division's website, but
that's it. Past issues are also available on the division's website. Funny,
back in September I posted the summer issue here and made the same comment,
but no one had questions or objections then, smile.

Because Slate & Style is not blind-centric, we tend to get more readers
outside the Federation, and blind community in general, and it was decided,
long before I was appointed as editor, that S & S should not be available to
non-due paying members, or non-Federationist, unless they pay for a copy,
which at this point is only like $3.

Sincerely,
Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter
Read my blog at:
http://blogs.livewellnebraska.com/author/bpollpeter/
 
"History is not what happened; history is what was written down."
The Expected One- Kathleen McGowan

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Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:03:26 -0800
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
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	issue
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Say *what*? Don't we want our message shared far and wide?

Mike Freeman

Message: 2
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:47:18 -0600
From: David Andrews <dandrews at visi.com>
To: Correspondence Committee Mailing List <nfb-editors at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-editors] Writers' Division, Slate & Style, fall
	issue
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Also, since this is a publicly archived group, it can be searched and
downloaded from anywhere in the world.

Dave


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