phr (02/17/83)
My annual "time to renew your free subscription" card says: Budgetary restraints and a high demand for NASA Tech Briefs have made it necessary to consider a subscription fee to be implemented in 1983. You will be informed about all pertinent details if and when a decision has been made. One more for the crying shame department. Tech Briefs is among the finest bathroom reading you can find; all sorts of neat ideas won't happen if it becomes too expensive to subscribe to. There are other casualties: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which has probably saved many lives because of all the health professionals who sent in for free subscriptions, is now $75/yr (unless the format and page count have changed drastically, each issue probably costs around $0.25 to print and mail). This is mentioned to soften the shock at what Tech Briefs is likely to cost. <Sob!>