Re: [AISdiscuss] Electronic Versions of Checklists

[John I Jones <jijones@usjoneses.com>]

I thought  a little more background would be helpful. The inventory and 
sales rates on the '89, '79, and '69 Checklists (thanks to John Ludi)

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The question is "Has the availability of the electronic copies of the 
'89, '79, and '69 affected the sales of the hardcopy versions?"

I don't have annual sales data prior to 2003, but what we can see from 
the data above is that the sales of each Checklist in 2004 is greater 
than in the year before.

You can not infer that the sales of checklists would have been higher 
if the electronic copies had not been available because we don't have 
the data to support that conclusion (although it is logical). But you 
can say that despite the increase in the subscriber base for the 
electronic database (www.irisregister.com) between 2003 and 2004 the 
sales of the checklists increased. We do seem to be headed to a much 
lower sales number in 2005

We don't really have enough data to analytically conclude the question 
either way.

I would propose though that most of the people that wanted the 1999 
have bought it already and that the sales from now on will be in the 
same level as the other checklists (or a little higher).

John


On Jul 22, 2005, at 11:16 AM, Deatons wrote:

> I don't have a vote one way or the other, but since we have so many,
> shouldn't we try to sell them BEFORE we make them available online?
> Personally, I have the book, and I much prefer it right now, but that 
> could
> change.  Hope all are staying cool!  Cheryl Deaton
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
> To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
> Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 10:01 PM
> Subject: [AISdiscuss] Electronic Versions of Checklists
>
>
>> Currently we allow people to download electronic versions of the 1989
>> and earlier Checklists.
>>
>> That data plus the 1999 Checklists and the R & I's from 2000 thru 2003
>> in in the search engine.
>>
>> 3000 copies of the 1999 Checklists were printed, and John Ludi tells 
>> me
>> they have 1864 on hand as of today. the run rate for the last two 
>> years
>> has been:
>>
>>          '03    '04    '05
>> Jan 6 6 2
>> Feb 7 9 1
>> Mar 6 4 6
>> Apr 15 15 8
>> May 16 8 1
>> Jun 6 8 5
>> Jul 7 6
>> Aug 17 7
>> Sep 16 2
>> Oct 8 4
>> Nov 9 2
>> Dec 6 2
>> Total 119 73 23
>>
>> If this year follows the average of the last two years we will sell a
>> total of 40 copies.
>>
>>
>> I would like the board to consider that we now make the 1999 Checklist
>> available for electronic download.
>>
>>
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