CSPS adjusts its subscription rates
Dear Fellow Members and Friends,
The Christian Science Publishing Society is making progress toward attaining its overall goals. I know you’ll be interested in the following message from the Board of Trustees.
Warmly,
Nathan Talbot
Clerk of The Mother Church
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Dear Friends,
We greatly appreciate your continuing support of The Christian Science Publishing Society (CSPS). As you know, we are working to expand the reach and impact of all of our publications while at the same time making each publication financially sustainable.
Over the next several months we are increasing prices for subscriptions, Reading Room products, and Journal card advertising for branch churches, practitioners, and nurses. In many cases prices have not been adjusted for almost a decade.
Our current subscription, advertising, and product prices do not reflect the full cost of publishing. The upcoming price increases will help the CSPS to recover more of the actual costs of these essential activities. With the lower subscription price of the Monitor, subscribers to all of the publications will see a net savings in their combined subscription expenditure.
Last year in the July 2008 issue of The Christian Science Journal, we talked about the need for ongoing adjustments to the way the CSPS conducts its activities. Since then, the Publishing Society has seen some significant progress.
The Christian Science Monitor’s launch of three new editions presents a publishing model that news organizations around the world are describing as “cutting-edge and a media model worth watching.” And the outsourcing of our subscription and customer service activity will save the CSPS an estimated $1 million annually.
We’re very grateful for your devotion to all the periodicals and products of the Publishing Society. This work is so important to our spiritual growth and the salvation of humanity. It’s a privilege to work with you as fellow church members to witness the continuing demonstration of Mary Baker Eddy’s vision for the Christian Science publications.
Board of Trustees
The Christian Science Publishing Society
6/2/09
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