File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1999/bhaskar.9902, message 76


Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:30:15 +0000
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: DCR Journal?


Thanks Tobin.

I think the suggestion that it be sent out electronically particularly
good because, even at a discounted subscription, IACR would still be in
front because of the saving on printing and mailing (providing it was
predominantly electronic) - so everybody would benefit. The main problem
I see is that quite a few of of our members are Luddites without email
(albeit mostly with access) and even more (including myself!) often get
into great difficulty opening email attachments - which could make
sending it out a nightmare. (It has to be an attachment or all the
formatting is lost.) 

Are you listening Wallace? Is there any relatively simple way around
this difficulty? Even just at the level of my current problems, I would
appreciate advice. I'm on an IBM compatible using Office 97. Is there a
program available that would enable me to open any attachment, including
those sent from MacIntoshes? (If he's not listening I'll approach him
directly.)

Andrew Collier's book (out April, I think, I know he's done the proofs;
Routledge, CCR Intervention series) is about DCR ethics - moral realism,
ethical naturalism, explanatory critique, moral alethia etc. He's
particularly interested in a non-anthropocentric ethics and finds the
ethical theory in DPF exciting as a basis for theorizing environmental
issues and our relations with non-human life. He's not on email. That's
all I know.



Tobin Nellhaus <nellhaus-AT-gis.net> writes
>Hi Mervyn--
>
>>Could you please spell out what you know of the economics of an
>>electronic journal (or newsletter)? I think the idea that *Alethia*
>>should go online a good one, but the reality is that we depend on
>>subsciptions for *Alethia* to cover the cost of printing and
>>distribution (and hopefully a bit more besides for other organizational
>>needs). Unless there is some way round this, it would have to be back
>>issues, not the current issue, that go online.
>
>I don't know anything about the economics of on-line publication *if* one
>also maintains a print publication.  I used to be in charge of a group on
>Theater and Social Change, and over a couple years switched us from a
>totally print newsletter (which was running us about US$600/yr) to totally
>on-line (at $0: we ran with e-mail distribution rather than Web
>pages/downloads, which the newsletter's size permitted, though distribution
>was a pain in the butt till we finally got a listserv set up).  Due to the
>near-ubiquity of Web or at least e-mail access at universities, I don't
>think we lost anyone because of it.
>
>I don't see much barrier to that for publication of *Alethia*, but that's
>assuming there's little or no institutional/promotional distribution.  If
>only a few hard copies are needed, with a little foresight and finesse one
>can develop a way to create a decent hard-copy version at the same time, and
>then print them off individually, straight from the computer; or photocopy a
>bunch.  (Ah, the magic of Merges and File Includes!)  There are undoubtedly
>other approaches (a lower price for electronic subscriptions, etc).
>
>My best suggestion, though, would be to contact the editors/publishers of a
>few existing on-line journals to find out how they manage matters, look into
>whatever costs your Internet provider may impose, and then run a few
>financial scenarios down your most trusted spreadsheet program.  If he isn't
>totally disgusted with us at this point, Wallace Polsom--god of the WSCR
>site, friendly ghost of the CCR site--might be cajoled into offering his
>knowledge of the technical issues.  (For all I know, there may even be a Web
>site devoted to on-line publication issues!)
>
>Incidentally, I was just digging on the Web to find out the price of *CR:
>Essential Readings* in the U.S. ($33, folks; sorry, neither Amazon.com nor
>BarnesandNoble.com offer a discount, so just patronize yer fave local
>retailer), and I noticed that Collier has a book forthcoming, entitled
>*Being and Worth*.  Anyone know anything about it?
>
>---
>Tobin Nellhaus
>nellhaus-AT-gis.net
>"Faith requires us to be materialists without flinching": C.S. Peirce
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Editor, 'Alethia'
Newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism
Flat 7, 23 Grove Park
Camberwell
London SE5 8LH
United Kingdom
Tel: 44 (0)171 274 2601
Email: mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk


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