Direct Driller Goes International
One thing we didn’t expect when starting Direct Driller Magazine was the interest we would have from abroad. The magazine was something we wanted to be able to provide free to farmers, both online and in print. We felt there should be no barrier to the flow of valuable information for any farmer who wanted to learn more or share experiences. What we didn’t expect was to have so many international readers, with 15 from Norway signing up on just one day. We would love to know why that was, if any of our Norwegian readers can shed light on this. Were we mentioned at a conference in Norway?
However, the cost of shipping abroad has become quite a burden. On top of printing the magazine for free, it costs 4 times as much to post abroad than it does in the UK. We have absorbed this cost again for Issue 2, but we will be asking all our international readers who want a printed magazine from Issue 3 onwards to contribute to the postage costs in the future. We are still happy to cover the cost of printing.
We will contact you all individually and give you the option to receive the magazine digitally, which will always remain free or to make a small payment for the year to also have a printed copy sent to you. We could also make the PDF available, so you could print yourself, but it doesn’t quite compare to having your own professionally printed copy on quality paper. The international popularity of the magazine was unexpected, but its great to see such a wide and diverse readership already.
However, we apologise to our international readers for not quite being able to make it free for them. We hope you understand and find the content of these pages of great enough value to be worthy of the cost of postage to your country and help to make quality publications possible and sustainable in the future.
You can read the Article online which is on Page 28 Of Direct Driller Magazine here:
https://issuu.com/directdriller/docs/direct_driller_issue_2/28
One thing we didn’t expect when starting Direct Driller Magazine was the interest we would have from abroad. The magazine was something we wanted to be able to provide free to farmers, both online and in print. We felt there should be no barrier to the flow of valuable information for any farmer who wanted to learn more or share experiences. What we didn’t expect was to have so many international readers, with 15 from Norway signing up on just one day. We would love to know why that was, if any of our Norwegian readers can shed light on this. Were we mentioned at a conference in Norway?
However, the cost of shipping abroad has become quite a burden. On top of printing the magazine for free, it costs 4 times as much to post abroad than it does in the UK. We have absorbed this cost again for Issue 2, but we will be asking all our international readers who want a printed magazine from Issue 3 onwards to contribute to the postage costs in the future. We are still happy to cover the cost of printing.
We will contact you all individually and give you the option to receive the magazine digitally, which will always remain free or to make a small payment for the year to also have a printed copy sent to you. We could also make the PDF available, so you could print yourself, but it doesn’t quite compare to having your own professionally printed copy on quality paper. The international popularity of the magazine was unexpected, but its great to see such a wide and diverse readership already.
However, we apologise to our international readers for not quite being able to make it free for them. We hope you understand and find the content of these pages of great enough value to be worthy of the cost of postage to your country and help to make quality publications possible and sustainable in the future.
You can read the Article online which is on Page 28 Of Direct Driller Magazine here:
https://issuu.com/directdriller/docs/direct_driller_issue_2/28