At this writing there are 45 subscribers to SDU. Dont laugh! These 45 came from a mail out invitation to only 100. All are SAFE DISK users. More subscriptions are trickling in each week, and another 100 mail outs to SD users will be done soon. The projection is for 2-300 subscribers by July 88. Publication of SDU is “by year of issues”, which means that a subscription year is OCT to JULY, and each “mid year” subscriber will receive that current year of issues. This strange set up does two fine things. It provides the new subscriber with the back up issues that are supporting, and it makes each issue more uniform in distribution.
I expect that the publishing of SDU will cost me about $200.00 more per issue than subscription income- until the subscription base reaches about 300 (the break even point). The sales of issue diskettes can help this posture by bringing in small profits. I will commit to a full year of publishing and see how it goes for the OCTOBER 88 issue. Enthusiasm of the TS-2068 users is the essential factor. IF we have that, and IF the subscription base builds, THEN PERHAPS SDU can become a bi-monthly, beginning with the Oct 88 issue.