The International Aroid Society now publishes a fully electronic only edition. It has an ISSN which means that, under the new Nomenclature Rules, it allows for valid publication of new species. Indeed there were many new species in the first two editions. Greg Ruckert Nairne, South Australia On 11/08/2014 5:51 AM, arnold140@verizon.net wrote: > I can tell you all a bit of the cost of publishing and mailing Herbertia. I was the Director of Mailing and Publication in the IBS back then. > > Alan Meerow did all the collating and editing of the Journal at no cost to the Society. We had a graphic editor who was paid, not very much to put it into the format to be printed. > > The major cost was the printing and mailing to our members. Overseas postage , which is much higher now was prohibitive back then. > > When you print small numbers like 1000 to 2000 you pay a large amount and the cost to print 5000 would not have been much higher. > > Membership dues could not support the project on an ongoing basis. Sooner or later it was bound to come to a halt. > > We would need an underwriter to foot the cost of the project... > > any takers? > > Arnold > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/ >