United Spinal Affiliation has introduced that it’ll stop publication of New Mobility’s bimonthly print journal and the page-turning digital version after the November/December 2024 difficulty — however we wish to guarantee you that this isn’t the tip of New Mobility. We’ll proceed to publish the genuine content material by and for wheelchair customers that has been NM’s hallmark for 35 years. What will be completely different is how we ship it.
As publishing has advanced, so has New Mobility — and so have you ever, our readers. Whereas print was as soon as the one choice, you now interact enthusiastically with our web site, newsletters, movies and social channels. And if we glance unflinchingly on the numbers of recent print subscribers in comparison with the price of producing and mailing print, we see that the time has come for New Mobility to focus extra on these modern publishing platforms. To make that doable, we have to shift sources from print to digital.
We all know that not everybody will welcome this transformation. Because the crew behind the longest-lived incapacity print journal on this planet, we’ve combined feelings ourselves. As we’ve tried to increase the lifetime of print, we actually respect your donations and notes of help. And as we plan our final couple of points, we hope you’ll share with us your tales about how NM has affected you over time. We’ll publish a choice of them in our closing version.
New Mobility 2.0
At the same time as we are saying goodbye to an period, we will’t assist however be excited concerning the future and having extra time to dedicate to fashionable storytelling platforms. No matter new types NM takes, we’ll hold telling genuine tales by and for wheelchair customers that you would be able to’t discover wherever else. We’re busy engaged on new supply concepts, however right here’s what we all know: We want to develop our videomaking capabilities. We’re discussing doable podcast codecs. We wish to put up net content material extra incessantly. We’re contemplating extra newsletters targeted on particular subjects comparable to journey and well being. Most significantly, although, we wish to hear from you. What would you want the following iteration of New Mobility to be? One strategy to tell us is to answer our 2024 Reader Survey. You can even e mail us your concepts and questions — or remark beneath. Simply wish to rant concerning the finish of an period? We’ll completely learn and publish these letters too.
One query we anticipate is, will there be any extra print problems with any type? We will’t decide to a quantity, however we hope to provide one or two points per yr. A few of these will possible be “particular editions” that delve deeply right into a single theme, comparable to journey, merchandise or well being. Some will possible be “better of” editions that compile a wide range of glorious articles in a format that may be distributed to new wheelchair customers in rehab or at skills expos. We promise to maintain you knowledgeable as we agency up our plans — and once more, please inform us what you’d wish to see.
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