Hi Anthony,
I gave one price figure yesterday.
Actually the price remained remarkably stable.
Between 1972 and 1975 the price for an issue
(including that which grew to A4 format)
was forty (40) pence.
There followed two double issues, which sold
at double the price (eighty pence).
So I don't think price substantiates AD's
assertions one iota.
in fact it can be seen that Bill Griffiths'
claim that sales rose between 1971 -75 during Mottram's editorship
is true. The price pre-Mottram btw (1971) is also 40 pence,
so no leverage there.
What is more unclear is the period 1976 - 77 and the figures
relating to those years. I'm presuming that figures given
relate to sales for the previous year (and such sales are surely
not simply discreet to one issue - although significantly so)?
If they relate to the previous year's issue sales then we have
no available figure for the final Mottram issue Volume 67 Nos 1-2
which would have been accounted for in the accounts for the year
following the final ruckus.
They would however suggest that the previous double issue Volume 66
Nos 3-4 did decent business. A simple (too simple as acknowledged above)
calculation would show 1750 sales at 80 pence for the tally of
one thousand and four hundred odd pounds sterling.
But it's obviously not easy to make clear cut arguments on the basis
of the available information. Which makes Andrew Duncan's assertions
all the more insubstantial and reprehensible quite honestly.
Those who stand by, or place store in, his revisionist opinions
ought to tell him that he does them little service.
love and love
cris
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