JRMES 14/15 and 16

[mcbishop]

I have no idea how to build the subscriber base. Word of mouth an advertising.??

That pretty much hits the nail on the head. We have to achieve a notional 200 or more subscribers by December 2015 or it won't be viable. I'm surprised at the low take-up by RAT members (even if, as I suspect, the 8,000 users are mostly spammers) but there is also the fact that institutions are not going to sign up for a crowdfunding campaign and may subscribe once that opportunity is available to them. The one fact that I have to go on is that print runs of 300 copies of JRMES have sold out in the past, so 200 subscribers should be achievable.

Who knows? We're in uncharted waters here, but one has to try one's best ;-)

Mike Bishop