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Why does LVA link in the newsletter to the Dining and Entertainment reviews? I want to print out the whole newsletter, including the reviews, but to do so, I'm forced to choose between two bad options: either print all the reviews separately, wasting colored ink on peripheral frazzle and ending up with an untidy product, or pasting screenshots into a Word document, then removing the peripheral frazzle and work/size them to fit tidily on pages. Why can't LVA just fit the reviews into the newsletter itself, so I can print the whole thing without all the work?
For many decades, we published a print version of the Las Vegas Advisor. Even when we began offering an online version as well, it had to look exactly like the print edition; we couldn't publish two different versions of the Advisor every month.
When we discontinued the printed/snail-mailed newsletter, it freed us up to play around with various formats for the periodical. Eventually, we landed on linking from the Advisor to our main Dining and Entertainment reviews, which we post on blog pages.
This accomplishes a number of things. First, it allows us to write longer reviews, since we no longer have to abide by strict space limitations. That essentially removes the handcuffs we've had to wear for so long, stifling our impulses to delve more deeply into all the restaurants and stage productions. Second, we can also post more and larger photos of the restaurants, food, and shows, which give you a better look at what you can expect to see and eat if you try these places. And third, it frees up space in the newsletter itself for more quick-hitting information, which is our preferred style.
That answers your questions as to why does and why can't.
Still, we're not unaware that some subscribers, like you, prefer to print out the newsletter and we're wondering how pervasive the sentiment is. So we're taking the opportunity of this QoD to conduct a quickie comment-box poll.
Do you print the newsletter?
If you do, would you like the reviews to be placed within it so you can just print off the whole thing without the "frazzle" and "all the work?"
If you print the newsletter, do you also print the blog reviews? Or if you don't print them, do you see that as a hardship?
Finally, are you content with not printing the newsletter at all and just reading it online?