The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 39, September 29, 2002, Article 3

COIN WORLD GOES NON-POSTAL

  William T. Gibbs, News Editor of Coin World writes:
  "Regarding the note from Mr. Richard Crosby published
  last week:   It is true that Amos Hobby Publishing, publishers
  of "Coin World," "Linn's Stamp News" and other hobby
  publications, lacks the necessary equipment to place their
  publications into a "plain brown wrapper" of the sort used
  by the publishers of the other magazines mentioned.

  Because we lack the necessary equipment, our circulation
  department cannot provide that service to our subscribers.
  Up to now, the best they could do is suggest subscribers
  have their issues sent to a post office box.   Placing the
  issues in an unprinted wrap of the kind sold several times a
  year by the advertising department would require additional
  postal and paper costs, which would be passed on to
  advertisers and subscribers.  However, an alternative will
  be available soon, when "Coin World" follows in the
  electronic footsteps of "Linn's" and begins offering the
  complete weekly issue in print and online versions (same
  publication, one print and one electronic).  Linn's recently
  began offering each complete weekly issue online (all
  contents, editorial and advertising) as a subscription-based
  publication in addition to the standard print edition.  We'll
  announce details about the online issue of "Coin World"
  as they become available, both at our main Web site and
  in the print edition of "Coin World."

  The subscribers to this e-mail publication generally love
  traditional literature in all of its printed glory even as they
  embrace the immediacy of  "The E-Sylum."  My own
  bookshelves at home (not to mention boxes upon boxes)
  are filled with books on many topics.  Electronic publishing,
  however, is a wave of the future, and "Coin World" is
  poised to take its next step into that future.

  The online edition will offer several advantages: It will get to
  subscribers' homes faster than the USPS can get the print
  edition to them (moving at the speed of light vs. snail mail).
  Subscribers who chose the online-only option will have no
  worries about security.  Most interesting, I think, to the
  subscribers of this journal, we'll gradually build an online,
  searchable archive of every article and every advertisement
  we publish each week."

  [A searchable online archive would be nirvana for researchers.
    Bring it on!  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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