March 2003 • Volume 9 • Number 3 |
If you're like most FP Report readers, you're a busy "skim" reader. When the printed FP Report hits your mailbox, you check out front-page stories and the highlights bar, then scan other headlines and look at just those stories that interest you. But you also like to read the occasional FP Report "special section," which has several stories that explore a single topic in depth.
Sound like you? If so, you'll be interested in a change coming to FP Report this April, when we start phasing in a concept called "electronic long -- print short," or ELPS. The printed April issue will have only four pages instead of the usual eight -- the right size, we think, for a skim reader. Each story will give you key points on the subject at hand. If you want more detail, you'll still be able to find it -- plus updates on some stories -- in FP Report Online. Bookmark this URL -- http://www.aafp.org/fpr/ -- for the times you want to access the information-rich online edition.
When the May issue arrives, you'll notice it's "business as usual" -- eight pages long. This variation between four and eight pages will continue for several months.
Come early 2004, we'll conduct a reader survey to find out how well ELPS is working for you. If four-page issues meet most readers' needs, all future FP Report issues will be four pages long. When we prepare special sections, they'll appear only in the online edition.
So stay tuned -- and let us know what you think of the change. You don't have to wait for the reader survey, either. Just send your comments to fpreport@aafp.org or mail them to the address shown in the staff box on page 2.
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