Re: MCM - Digest V1 #268

[Karen Randall <krandall@world.std.com>]

At 10:36 PM 3/28/2000 -0600, you wrote:
>>        Lets revisit the issue. What are the pro's and con's of letting
>>non-members buy at a higher cost. Please remember we have to have this
>>decided within the two weeks for timely publication.
>>
>
>I am trying to think of reasons why AGA shouldn't sell books to nonmenbers
>even if nonmembers pay more than members.  The only one I can think of is
>that allowing nonmembers to purchase books might increase the workload on
>Diana Walstad, who is volunteering, of course, the time and effort.
>According to this argument, hard-to-get volunteer effort should be spent on
>members, not nonmembers.  Question:  If nonmembers were allowed to purchase
>books, would the frequency of orders go up a lot?

I think the original thinking was that this was something that
differentiated us from just a "subscription to a magazine" as a benefit to
our members.  But I don't have strong feelings one way or the other.  In
reality, at this point Diana has no way of checking whther someone is a
member anyway.

Karen
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