From azs00 at hampshire.edu Fri Jul 18 11:04:06 2003 From: azs00 at hampshire.edu (Azi Shariatmadar) Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:04:06 -0400 Subject: [Sisters] Bitch needs you! Message-ID: <1058540646.3f180c66631e5@webmail.hampshire.edu> hey y'all, if you don't know about bitch magazine, you should, because it has some of the greatest articles i've ever read. bitch is a feminist response to pop culture, and is, as far as i know, the only magazine focused on this theme. if you have a bit of $ to spare and want to keep this fabulous magazine alive, please subscribe! azi > >Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:48:20 +0100Subject: Bitch needs you! >From: Andi Zeisler >To: bitch > > >Dear friends-- > >As many of you know, Bitch has always functioned on a shoestring budget, >especially in the spreading-the-word department. Well, our mid-year >financial statements show that the shoestring has gotten even stringier of >late. We're falling pretty short of our projected magazine sales for the >year, and to ensure that there's a Bitch next year and for many years to >come, we need your help now. To put it bluntly, we need more subscribers. >About 3,000 more. > >Here's why subscriptions are so crucial to our financial health: When people >buy Bitch at a bookstore, we eventually (four to five months later) get >between $1.77 and $1.98 of the $4.95 plus tax that it costs. When people >subscribe, they pay only $3.75 per issue (better for them), and we get all >of the money right away (better for us). > >A lot of people think that buying Bitch on the newsstand supports us just as >much as subscribing. Some even think it's more helpful because it convinces >bookstores that Bitch is worth carrying. But the bottom line is that Bitch >is much better off having you as a subscriber than as a newsstand buyer. (Of >course we'd rather have people buying it in the bookstore than not buying it >at all, but I promise that stores will continue to stock the magazine, and >new newsstand buyers will always come along.) > >And then there are all those folks out there who say, "Oh, yeah, Bitch, I've >thumbed through that in the bookstore/been to the website/read a friend's >copy, and I always meant to subscribe." Now is the time to get all of these >people to actually sign up! > >Here's what you can do to help: > >-If you are not a subscriber right now, become one today. Go to >www.bitchmagazine.com/merch.htm, call us toll-free at 877-21-BITCH, or send >a check for $15 to Bitch, 1611 Telegraph Ave Ste. 515, Oakland CA 94612. > >-Buy gifts for your friends and family. Multiple subscriptions are even >cheaper: $15 for the first and $12 for each additional. See info above, and >please note: If you are ordering online, the discount for multiple >subscriptions will not show up automatically. Write a note in the comments >field about it (along with the other addresses, of course) and we will >manually adjust the price. > >-Pass this message along. This e-mail is going out to about 700 or so >people. To meet our goal, every one of you would need to buy 4.3 >subscriptions--or we would collectively need to reach out to a whole bunch >more than 700 of Bitch's closest friends. So please send this to anyone >you know who likes the magazine or who you think would like the magazine. >Help us get the word out! > >-Tell people about Bitch. Read it on public transportation. Leave a copy in >places where people will discover it (your local coffee house, your >college's student center, the waiting room at your friendly women's health >clinic, etc.). If you want to take part in a more formal effort to do this, >e-mail publicity director Marisa Meltzer at marisa at bitchmagazine.com and >tell her you're interested in helping to promote the magazine in your area. > >-Buy a t-shirt, too. We have a bunch of styles now and they're super-cute. >If you're an exhibitionist, we also have very happenin' underwear for sale. >(Pictures and descriptions are at www.bitchmagazine.com/merch.htm.) > >-Pester your local library to buy a subscription (they really do listen to >patron requests). > >-Donate a subscription to your local campus women's center, community >resource center, or the like. > >Anything you can do to get us further toward the goa! l of 3,000 subscriptions >will help Bitch be strong and healthy! > >With gratitude, >Lisa >-- >Lisa Jervis >Bitch: Feminist Response to Pop Culture >PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW ADDRESS! >1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 515 >Oakland, California 94612 >510-625-9390/lisa at bitchmagazine.com/www.bitchmagazine.com > ----- End forwarded message ----- ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Azi Shariatmadar 12 Hallock Street, Apt. 12 Amherst, MA 01002 413.256.5431 My faith in people and my impulse to fight for them is my religion and it is the light by which I live. --Dorothy Kenyon, 1950 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: unnamed Type: text/enriched Size: 4834 bytes Desc: not available URL: