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scott (runscott)While I always read your email newsletter, I am much more likely to read a hard-copy magazine or journal that I have by choice paid to have it arrive at my home <===(weird sentence,needs MW re-formatting). I look forward to sitting on the porch with a beer and reading the new VCBC.
Knowing that the full beauty of my writing (and accompanying photos) will likely be appreciated much more in glossy hard-copy format while in the hands of a relaxed, beer-sipping collector, I am much more likely to do the research and editing necessary to produce a high-quality article, than if I was writing for inclusion in an email newsletter.
Also, I am planning an article for submission to VCBC that will have something to do with tobacco printer scrap cards - I think that having high-quality pics of the cards will really help the article in a way that could not be achieved by email newsletter. There are many articles that this is true for. Also, there are other types of vintage-card related material that do much better in hard-copy form, such as auction reports with photos of items. While not all appreciate those types of articles, hard-copy at least allows for them. Finally, my stack of VCBC's looks great on the coffee table, while a stack of printed out newsletters would hold less appeal.
I didn't edit the above, because it is in electronic format, but if I intended to submit to VCBC I would likely have edited and also located some nice photos as support. 