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Editorial Viewpoint
Bringing Practical Electronics (PE)
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Publisher/Editor
Nicholas Vinen
Technical Editor
John Clarke – B.E.(Elec.)
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Dr Hugo Holden – B.H.B, MB.ChB.,
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Ian Batty – M.Ed.
Phil Prosser – B.Sc., B.E.(Elec.)
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Leo Simpson – B.Bus., FAICD
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Printing and Distribution:
You might have seen Practical Electronics magazine
at the newsagent before. Based in the UK, it was
established in 1964. Since the early 2000s, they have
been licensing some of our content (mainly projects)
for their magazine, alongside their locally-developed
content.
The owner of the current publisher, Electron
Publishing, is now retiring and shutting down his business. Rather than
ending the magazine’s 60-year run, we have agreed to take it over. The move
made sense since PE already uses quite a bit of Silicon Chip content.
They will remain essentially separate magazines, with PE continuing to
have a significant amount of content originating from authors in the UK and
Europe. PE will still republish our content because it has few native project
article submissions.
This should not affect Silicon Chip, except that we may occasionally elect
to publish articles from PE authors that we think are particularly good and
suitable for our readers. This is unlikely to replace any of our content (as we
still have plenty!) but might augment it.
For example, if we have enough articles for a 104-page issue, we might
decide to add roughly eight pages of content from PE and turn it into a 112page issue. The biggest challenge in doing that is that many articles in PE are
long-running series, making it difficult to just occasionally pick one to use.
Even though this change is not likely to have much impact on Silicon Chip
readers, I thought they would still like to be made aware of it.
We have been having difficulty selling items to customers in the UK due to
changes to their VAT (value-added tax) laws that occurred a couple of years
ago (post-Brexit). We’re hoping to be able to solve that soon; while we do
not have any physical UK presence, the fact that we’re doing some business
there now might allow us to overcome that unfortunate problem.
Minor price adjustments
I had hoped to avoid increasing any prices this year. However, we’re still
under pressure to do so. Australia Post recently increased their charges for
mailing magazines quite substantially (letter rates went up 25% less than a
year after the last price increase!)
Still, I know that many people are under financial pressure due to the crazy
cost-of-living expenses we are now suffering, so we can’t increase our prices
too much and risk making the magazine unaffordable.
We will only increase the cost of print and combined subscriptions by a
small amount to partially cover the higher postage costs. The new prices are
shown below. A 12-month print or combined subscription only increases by
$2.50 per year, while six-month subscription prices remain the same (see
the sidebar). If you renew before October 1st, you can take advantage of the
existing, slightly lower prices.
Online subscription prices are not changing. However, we will be rounding
up the print magazine’s cover price to $13 starting with the October issue
this year, to compensate for inflation.
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