A few APR subscribers (and former subscribers) have complained that they don’t care for the electronic version, that they liked the paper version better. Hey, I agree. I vastly prefer reading an actual paper honest-to-Odin book to text on a screen. However, confirmation that sometimes electronic is better came yesterday when I had the three most recent issues of APR printed off at a print shop. These were printed single-sided, with pages with color being printed in color, and 11X17 pages printed on 11X17 pages. Total price? More than $40. And there wasn’t even binding, never mind postage. A full years worth would, after switching to double-sided and with volume discounts, likely still cost more than $60 simply to print off. For a while I’ve been contemplating having a few copies made of Volume 1 printed complete and bound, but with binding and whatnot, the selling price would have to be on the order of $100. And who the hell would pay *that?* Sure, it’d be more than 500 pages (damn, that’s a lot when I think about it) and probably technically worth it… but a hundred bucks is a hundred bucks.
Now, if anyone is actually interested in a bound version of Volume 1, let me know.
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