Re: [AISdiscuss] Electronic Versions of Checklists

["E. Roy Epperson" <kirklee@triad.rr.com>]

It continues to be a focus of The American Iris Society to be more open to
the iris world in general and to be more "user-friendly."  Access to the
1999 Checklist by download and/or by hard copy is another positive step in
this on-going process.

E. Roy Epperson
1st VP, AIS

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John I Jones" <jijones@usjoneses.com>
To: <aisdiscuss@aisboard.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 23, 2005 1:13 AM
Subject: Re: [AISdiscuss] Electronic Versions of Checklists


> 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)
>
> [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/tiff which had a name of
image.tiff]
> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >> John                | "There be dragons here"
> >>                           |  Annotation used by ancient cartographers
> >>                           |  to indicate the edge of the known world.
> >>
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