Jul 062008
Looking at my records… wow. Subscriptions to APR have *really* fallen off a lot in the last two months. I thought for sure that the Orion and submarine aircraft carrier issues would get lots of subscribers. Nope. I know for a fact that APR should appeal to a vastly larger audience than the current miniscule subscriber base. I know the price ain’t unreasonable… $28 for 500 or more pages of actual content seems like a bargain to me. So why are people not subscribing?
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Beats me why people are not subscribing…I did, and I wish I had known about it back when you put out the paper edition! All you blog readers, subscribe now, dang it! We want to keep Scott in business here!
May be it’s time to pull out Boeing archives stuff? More, Pluto issue must be a blockbuster IMHO…Fish, SuperHustler, KingFish, etc….
Well, from my part I simply buy every issue separately because I want to pay MORE, since I think APR deserves the money… I’m not making this up.
Cheers
I’ll do what I can Scott. I’m resubscribing soon.
Scott – you are sitting on treasures, but offer only tiny bits for sale as scans, and these are stuff of your choice (don’t beat me, but you surely have something that you just lazy to scan, meantime one who needs it just don’t know that you actually have it). Why just don’t make a catalogue of *most* drawings/photos/artists’ renderings you have and serve orders in a matter of time? Just an idea. Plus, you offer your stuff on eBay very rare as I see, it’s a whole universe full of freaky nuts ready to pay 125 bucks for an old Lockheed Horizons issue.
“Why just don’t make a catalogue of *most* drawings/photos/artists’ renderings you have…”
Because the vast majority of the things I have I *can’t* sell copies of for legal and copyright reasons. AIAA papers, magazine articles, journal articles I can’t sell copies of. Basically I’m restricted to items that I have procured from open sources (government archives, private citizens, university collections, Ebay) and that were done under or for some sort of government contract. Items I got from, say, the Boeing archive are quite explicitly not for advertised resale; they have clamped down on this sort of thing, and my recent trip there resulted in many hundreds of really interesting photocopies, all stamped “PROPRIETARY/COPYRIGHT.”
“you offer your stuff on eBay very rare as I see…”
Because it just doesn’t sell. The stuff I sell on Ebay typically sells for less than what it does on my website, and I keep a close eye on business during and after Ebay sales…. there is no noticable difference. I’d hoped that selling my stuff on Ebay would make for some decent free advertising, but that didn’t work out either.
Take a close look at the airplane drawings I sell. You’ll note that one of them has been withdrawn from availability. This was not due to the files being corrupted, but due to a phone call from a lawyer.
Scott – These issues are obvious, I knew you will point out on this…and, strangely enough, people have tendency to be interested mostly in what is/was restricted…but may be you can start with the letting people know about things that are not ITAR/copyright/proprietary related?
Actually, I thought that eAPR was more fruitful beginning that paper APR…
I’m with Skybolt. I’m happy to buy them one at a time and pay more.
Also the whole ITAR thing is a joke. It’s crippling US industry.
I’ve lost my job, or I’d sign up.