3 New Ways To Support BC

3. Occasional Contributions by Credit Card – Click Here

Thank you to everyone who wrote to us with suggestions of how we could make supporting BC more reader-friendly. Together, we’re going to make BC survive far into the future.

As we’ve mentioned before, we need 20% of our readers (or the equivalent, including BC Contributions) to be BC Paid Subscribers in order for us to survive. Beyond that, we can begin the outreach plans we have to decrease the “Digital Divide” in under-served, economically-strapped areas. We dream of that, but our reality is that we either reach the 20% by the end of 2006, or we don’t continue to publish beyond the end of the last BC Paid Subscription. It’s simple economics, and the BC Readers will determine which way BC goes – onward, or out.

Update – Here’s this week’s graph:

We welcomed 33 new BC Paid Subscribers this past week. Thank you to those who went to the Sign Up page and became BC Paid Subscribers, or mailed in checks and money orders. And an additional thank you to those who also became BC Contributors.

We moved up 1.28%, although this week, we’ve begun to include equivalent subscriptions from BC Contributions, so we’re also showing a one-time increase from past BC Contributions. We’re now a little over 1/5 of the way toward our 20% goal. Will you help BC?