 Why Support NetPet Magazine?
The goal of NetPet Magazine is to use the format of an an electronic 'Zine + Encyclopedia
to increase the level of accurate, easily available information about pet
related aspects of biology. For most people the main interaction with animals is
through their contact with other humans and with pets, and since I know a lot
about pets I decided to start up NetPet Magazine as a Pet Based electronic information system.
Obviously we are a for-profit enterprise (or at least we aim to be self
sustaining) - I was unable to get some sort of grant for this project. I am
paying for the site on IDSOnline, a commercial server and
the computers are somewhat expensive. Ultimately I would like to receive a
salary for my editing and writing activities. I would like to pay a royalty to
the other authors who contribute to the site because I want to accumulate some
high quality information that will actually be useful to people and expand their
knowledge of the living world.
Why Bonnie Dalzell, MA?
I have been a college level instructor in biomedical fields since the mid
1960's. This was an side effect of my long term project to try and stay in
graduate school all my life. Unfortunately in 1994 the powers that be caught me
at it and terminated the experiment. This left me with an addiction to
teaching and computers, a lot of miscellaneous knowledge, skills in teaching,
graphics, videography, sculpture, writing, computers, dog breeding and
maintainence, science fiction and thinking up wierd things to do. A detailed
biographical sketch is available on my non-commercial home
page.
The author's who I most admire, and who I strive to emulate in my writing style
are Willy Ley, Isaac Asimov, Mark Twain and, for that cutting edge of commentary,
Ambrose Bierce. For an admiration of clarity and logic I have been influenced by
Hans Reichenbach.
Since I had always wanted to publish my own 'something' and had a lot of
problems focusing on what that 'something' should be - starting an eclectic
animal related publication seemed like an obvious thing to do.
The format of NetPet Magazine is quite open and flexible.
How can you support the NetPet Magazine experiment?
- Send money.
If you like the site, ask yourself "Is this site as useful to me
as some of the paper magazines to which I subscribe?"
NetPet Magazine will always be 'shareware' we are not going to restrict access to our
articles to paid subscribers, but if the articles are useful to you consider
paying a 'shareware subscription fee'. If everyone who visited us and made use of the site
paid us what it costs to subscribe to 'Dog World' or similar magazines we would
be happy.
Reccommmended annual subscription fee is $15.
- You can support a project
- Write for NetPet Magazine. If you have well developed knowledge in a pet
related area , we are asking for your submissions!
- Help to transcribe material for our reference section. Transcribers
will be acknowledged and, if the transcriber wishes a page of 'transcriber
information' will be linked to the transcribed material.
- Join the NetPet Magazine editorial board. We need people with expert knowledge
willing to answer our questions about factual material in articles. Members of
the editorial board will have 'biographical sketches' maintained online. We will
also maintain sections for information about projects that authors editorial
board members have an interest in, such as the Wolf Park material.
- Pay to sponsor an article or an information section.
- Article sponsorships are $50 per year. We will link a 'sponsor information
page' to any article you sponsor.
- Section Sponsorships are $500 per year. We will incorporate a graphic
indicative of your sponsorship on the opening page of the sponsored section and
link a 'sponsor information page' to that graphic.
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Checks should be made out to Bonnie Dalzell and sent to 5100 Hydes Rd, Hydes MD
21082.
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