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Parish Notices
This is the final hard copy of Lobster.… but not the final issue of Lobster. I am merely giving up the labour of producing and distributing 1000 copies of a 50 page magazine. The next issue will appear – in precisely which form I haven’t decided: a blog? future issues looking like this? – on the Lobster website, and it will be free. Check the Lobster website in early December.
I will repay outstanding subscription money as far as I can; but be patient, this will take a while to do. I will start by repaying those who are owed the most and work from there.
If there are readers who do not have access to the Internet I can only apologise and suggest that such access, via public libraries, is no longer difficult to arrange and frequently free of charge these days.
Producing Lobster has dominated my life for a long time now and I am just tired of doing it. A couple or three years ago I thought that there was still a big difference between hard copy and the Internet, that the Internet wasn’t serious, with no ultimate legal requirement to get things accurate. But, in practice, as the documentation in the magazine shows, we get almost all our information from the Net these days and the distinction between the two media no longer seems so important. We know what are and are not serious websites. Essentially Lobster has been overtaken by technology. When hard copy was all there was, producing a little magazine, an alternative magazine, seemed a reasonable response to the state of the print media at the time. Now it doesn’t.
And the supply of original material is declining. There is a lot of me in this issue because I had no other suitable copy. (But if I was a young writer would I think of writing for a magazine with a circulation of 1000 or would I put it on a website and be read by many more people?)
Robin Ramsay
Lobster is edited and published by:
Robin Ramsay at 214 Westbourne Avenue, Hull, HU5 3JB. UK
Tel: 01482 447558. e-mail:
Web site at www.lobster-magazine.co.uk
ISSN: 0964-0436
Subscriptions
Lobster appears in June and December each year. A year’s subscription (two issues) costs:
- UK – £8.00
- Europe – £9.00
- Elsewhere – £10.00 (or equivalent)
These prices include airmail postage for overseas subscribers.
- Overseas subscribers please send International Money Orders, cheques drawn on a UK banks, or a bank with a UK Branch, or cash in sterling or U.S. dollar equivalent.
Make cheques payable to ‘Lobster’ and send to the address on the rear cover [shown above] - When subscribing, please state from which issue (ie which number) to being the subscription.
Previous Lobsters
- If buying single copies, 9, 10, 13, 17, 18, 20, 21 are £2.00 (UK); £3.00 (Europe), £3.50 (elsewhere).
- The others are £3.00 each (UK); £3.50 (Europe), £4.50 (elsewhere);
- If buying more than one deduct £0.50 per copy.
- These prices include airmail postage overseas
- Outside the UK send International Money Orders, a cheques drawn on a UK bank (or non-UK cash with a UK branch); or cash — dollars or Euros. Make payable to ‘Lobster’ and send to the address above.