[TheForge] ABANA Dilema

[Phil]

I've been a member of ABANA since 1981.  I got my
ABANA membership renewal in the mail the other day,
$55 for the coming year.  I like reading the Hammer's
Blow.  The Anvil's ring has gotten a bit too artsy for
my taste, and it's hard to find the articles cause of
all the advertisements.  But anyway, I was weighing
whether I wanted to renew or not.  I was thinking $55
a year is a lot for two quarterly publications.  Then
it occurred to me that ABANA doesn't do conferences
anymore.  The ABANA web-site is basically unchanged
for the last few years.  Then I started thinking about
the numbers, 5000 people spending $55 a year, that's
$275,000.  Wow, that's a lot to publish two quarterly
journals.  Then a friend of mine pointed out to me
that the Anvil's Ring has ad revenue as well.  Where
does all that money go anyway?


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