I thought I hadn't seen an issue in a while... -Tom -------- Original Message -------- Subject: What's going on with The Perl Review Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2010 17:42:14 -0500 From: ....@theperlreview.com (The Perl Review)
Dear TPR Subscriber, Sorry that we've been away for so long. Here's the short story: we're working on a special Moose issue, and no one who had a subscription of any type will need to renew their subscription before 2011. I'm not going to answer individual questions in email, but I'll collect people's questions and answer them all at once on the website. [...] It's only fair to let you know what happened, and what's going to happen. In short, I started working on Effective Perl Programming, Second Edition, and I thought it was going to be a snap. However, I should have realized that updating a Perl book written in 1997 wouldn't really be so much an update as a complete rewrite. It always seemed like the finish line was just around the corner, but that kept happening. All of a sudden it was several months later. Even without that, there was going to be one more print issue of TPR. We got to the point where we had to go big or go home. TPR's predecessor, The Perl Journal, ran into the same problem at the same point (20 issues). When the magazine gets to a certain subscriber base size, you can't really run it out of your home. Hiring the various services to handle thousands of pieces of mail makes prices go through the roof as everyone tries to take advantage of your need, and you have to keep on top of them constantly to get them to do it all correctly. I could charge four times the prices, but enriching other companies with your money isn't the point. At the same time, more people are asking for more timely information in digital forms. Waiting for three months to read a handful of Perl articles is almost like waiting a lifetime. I want to provide more stuff more quickly and in different forms. Right now, yearly subscriptions are . That gets you full access to everything on the website. Again, if you already have a subscription, and you do if you got this email, then you don't need to do anything to keep your subscription going. If you had a print subscription when we sent out the last issue, you'll get the next print issue when its ready. We're working out what that new form is going to be and looking at various ebook formats. We've got to finish up this Moose issue first though. :) -- brian d foy, The Perl Review brian.com _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
