Discussion Details
| Title: | RE: Abolishing Fund Drive Once and For All? |
| Submitter: | Madalena Cruz-Ferreira |
| Description: | Hi there, you valiant lot
I get cardiac arrhythmia every time the Fund Drive is on and no-one is paying any attention to it and what it means. It gets worse with every message from you and the very real risk of losing the Linguist List altogether. For the sake of my health, here are my two cents on your posting today: We could start charging subscription fees to receive emails, or to access the site, or both. I vote, *strongly*, "Aye", for emails, site or both. Why on earth should you have to beg, as you so rightly put it, in order to be able to provide *us* with a service that we literally can't do without?? Your site says: a mailing list with over 20,000 subscribers worldwide for a USD 50,000 Fund Drive a year, right? That's not a lot per subscriber, and I don't mind paying more than the arithmetical average to cover students, etc. who subscribe but can't afford to pay. If I pay USD 50 yearly to access Blackwell's Labs, why not pay the same to Linguist, which covers abstracts and infinitely more? We could enforce payment for various topics, such as jobs and conferences. Re-"Aye" And since I presume publishers pay you for book announcements, how about charging them for published reviews too? I've ordered several books for my university library over several years because of what Linguist reviews said about them. I'm sure I'm not the only one. The publishers are making money on Linguist reviews, why shouldn't you, who provide the service and besides do free publicity to their goods in this way? Whew!! Thanks for letting me get this off my chest! Madalena ====================================== Madalena Cruz-Ferreira Dept. English Language and Literature National University of Singapore ellmcf@nus.edu.sg http://profile.nus.edu.sg/fass/ellmcf/ ====================================== |
| Date Posted: | 27-Mar-2005 |
| Linguistic Field(s): | General Linguistics |
| LL Issue: | 16.932 |
| Posted: | 27-Mar-2005 |
