Penguin News

Fran Biggs of the Penguin News (Stanley, Falkland Islands) announced today that she thinks a full electronic edition of the newspaper may be available in February, and that the annual rate for access should be fifty pounds sterling or less. This is great news for overseas subscribers, who in the past have only had two comparatively unattractive options for reading the paper. One option was to receive the paper "by post," which involves a large markup to cover postage (driving the annual rate to 82 pounds) and delays that meant your news was usually two to four weeks old upon receipt. The other option was to download back-issue PDFs from the Penguin archive for free, but of course back-issues don't appear until they're a good five or six weeks old. So either way the news was considerably dated.

I am further informed that it will be possible to pay for this new service by credit card -- again an improvement from paying by international wire transfers, which have proven for me to be both inconvenient and expensive. This fervent kelperphile eagerly awaits futher information.