We have a question for you! It's one I've been bouncing around my head for a couple of months now and the Committee have agreed that it's a question that would be better answered by you guys as opposed to us making the call. So, on with the preamble...

As much of a success as the digital True Grip has been fantastic to see and a real achievement for the club, there are a number of members who, quite rightly, miss the traditional printed format.

Now whilst we're not in the position financially to reinstate True Grip as an exclusively print-based magazine, we do have the opportunity to offer True Grip for sale to those who are desperate for it to once again return to print (so you can once again feel the gentle touch of paper and ink on your legs as you sit on the throne) via a service called MagCloud.

MagCloud offers us the opportunity to create commercial quality magazines, printed on demand with no upfront costs or minimum print runs.

This does however mean that the cost per issue comes out at £5.15 (printed, perfect bound, packed and delivered). We could also offer the full printed issue of TG to non-members at £7 per quarter. I'm more than happy to facilitate this service for members but only if that is something that you would be keen to see happen.

The club will have no direct involvement other than supplying the files for print and will make no profit from the sale of each issue to members. We are aware that the price is higher than we might have hoped but unfortunately it's fixed at $0.20(usd) per page.

We're not trying to sell ice to Eskimo's, merely offering a third-party service to those that might wish to use it. It will take a considerable amount of my time to implement (as TG will need the format changing in order to fit with MagClouds requirements) so I'll only do this if there's sufficient interest.

Just to add, this will not in any way affect the current digital issues that you can view at http://www.sidc.co.uk/truegrip

Click here to visit the poll thread.

Stu
True Grip Editor 

**BY THE WAY - NEW ISSUE OF TRUE GRIP OUT EARLY MAY**