Re: Iris CD-Rom & Registrar's Database
- Subject: Re: [iris-talk] Iris CD-Rom & Registrar's Database
- From: G* S*
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:26:29 -0700
John Jones wrote:
>
> Iris Moose wrote:
> > I also think the argument concerning a decline in the sales of the
> > printed
> > checklist is a bit silly. AIS is not out to make money. Publication
> > of a
> > checklist is a mandatory stipulation of being the International
> > Cultivar
> > Registration Authority (ICRA) for Iris.
>
> Silly? How about needing to recover the cost of printing? I would admit
> I have no idea how much an eletronic version would impact the sales of
> the printed version. It will, but how much. Someone figure that out for me.
The AIS spends a significant number of thousands of dollars buying
a large number of checklists, so that we members can buy them at a
reasonable price. If it got stuck with a large unsold inventory,
it would hurt all of us, since the funds would not be available
for other worthy projects.
It might be silly to stop electronic availability of the data
for this consideration, but the issue does need to be addressed.
Gerry
--
g*@mediaone.net
Gerry Snyder, AIS Symposium Chair, Region 15 RVP
Member San Fernando Valley, Southern California Iris Societies
in warm, winterless Los Angeles--USDA 9b-ish, Sunset 18-19
my work: helping generate data for: http://galileo.jpl.nasa.gov/
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