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bullet  A Premium Idea

The daunting task of using poor-quality e-mail software finally make it too hard to publish True by e-mail every week, so I came up with an idea: publish it every other week.

But what about the true True fans that really wanted to read every week's installment? A "Premium Edition" is announced -- for a small fee, Premium subscribers would get the column every week, and with no outside advertising. And since Premium subscribers would be, by definition, the most supportive readers, I also instituted a permanent 20 percent discount on True books.

Reaction was immediate: total support -- and a huge number of checks sent in the mail. (We didn't have secure online ordering yet!)

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