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like to continue it but I may have to resort to the other type of binding to save more. 2) The magazine looks much more professional when the text is even on the right side as well as the left, but com- puter typesetting is also much more expensive than just typing, so I may have to resort to just typing and eliminating the justified right margins. 3) I could also eliminate one-half a folio of pages.

I don't want to do any of these things, but I may have to in order to stay in business. However, there are things you can do to help if you enjoy this magazine and want to see it continue. 1) You could buy back issues when you are waiting for the next new one. I have a con- tinuous inventory of about $8,000 in stock, which, if I could realize some of it, would give me some capital to put into new stories which we very badly need. The back issues are just as interesting as the current ones and you could have something come more often that way. We still have almost all issues since #61 with just a few blanks, tho there are others that don't have too many left. We also have a number of issues prior to #61 which we bought back from subscribers and which are available for $6 each so that you could complete your collection if you are missing any issues. If you don't have some particular issue we do maintain a rental stock of all issues for which you send us $6 and we credit or refund you $3 upon its return.

2) You could refrain from loaning or sharing your copies with others who are too cheap to buy them themselves and tell them to subscribe directly. I can understand their motivation particular- ly in hard times and I can understand the generosity of those who loan, but it is coming down to an issue of the survival of Trans- vestia and if it doesn't survive, there won't be anything to loan out.

I've tried to make this magazine from the beginning a forum for your contributions, comments and participation. Moreover, I've tried to keep it dignified so that if it were inadvertantly left on the coffee table and seen by an unaware individual there wouldn't be anything in it that you'd be ashamed of having to explain. Thus you don't see, semi-nude and lingerie pictures here, you don't find personal ads for various types of sexual activity; you don't find ads for other books or magazines with "sexy" titles or themes; you don't find ads for goods or services that are "far out” in one way or another. You can find all those things and more in every other publication on the market so those that want them need not be disappointed. But there

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