HI, Bill! I live and work in southern Saskatchewan, Canada. I am a subscriber of the PTG magazine, but not a member of PTG. As a tuner, I find the magazine of great value, and for what it is worth, I would be more than happy to purchase one of the CD's when they come out. What would my price be? Sincerely, Tom Dickson >From: SprBil@AOL.COM >Reply-To: pianotech@ptg.org >To: pianotech@ptg.org >CC: ecc@ptg.org >Subject: ECC needs your help!! >Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 23:06:05 EDT > >Members of this list, > >At long last, the much anticipated Piano Technician's Journal on CD ROM >project has a chance to happen. The Electronic Communications Committee >has >forwarded 3 competitive bids to put 20 years, count 'em, 20 years of the >Journal on CD ROM to the HO for discussion by PTG Board of Directors in KC. >We figure the estimated purchase cost for members of PTG will be around >$100 >per CD. The amazing part of all this is that it can be in HTML format, >making yearly updates easy. Basically, the info in the update would be >stored on your hard drive, so there won't be a lot of "disk swapping" to >deal >with. Can you imagine being able to download yearly updates? > >If you want this to happen it is very important to let your regional >representatives and board members know that you support the project. We >estimate the "break even" point to be around 500 unit sales. This >represents >a large chunk of change to our organization, but IMHO, will be a very good >investment, especially given the rapid growth of the WWW and the increasing >access to digital media. > >Let your voice be heard! Help this project will succeed! > >Bill Springer, RPT >ECC Chair ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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