AIS: checklists
- Subject: AIS: checklists
- From: L* M*
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 08:08:32 -0800
From: Linda Mann <lmann@icx.net>
If it's a money issue, why not go about raising money to pay for it as a
'public service' some other way? Maybe ask for donations from each
region as a special project. Anybody know how many copies of the
printed checklists have been sold? Maybe see if AIS can raise that much
money in donations to support free download of the electronic version.
Or maybe free download of all registrations prior to the current decade,
so folks will keep buying current R&Is.
Seems to me that AIS could make more money in the long run by getting
the electronic checklists out to encourage hybridizers in marginal
growing areas and to help growers search for relatives of irises that do
well in marginal areas. Open up new markets and new members.
Not releasing the checklists seems to have potential for getting members
a tad cranky.
John Jones wrote:
> Of course it is just this sort of process that I think frightens AIS. The
> copyright issue is a significant one but mostly from the point of view that
> the electronic version is much easier to copy than a 100 page book. Makes
> it
> much easier for AIS to lose revenue.
Linda Mann east Tennessee USA
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Help support ONElist, while generating interest in your product or
service. ONElist has a variety of advertising packages. Visit
http://www.onelist.com/advert.html for more information.
