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The APHA Newsletter
Four times a year APHA produces The APHA Newsletter, which features news of upcoming APHA events, reports of the activities of the national chapters, and other items of interest to printing historians. Until Number 171 (summer 2009) the newsletterwas a printed publication, distributed by mail to all members of APHA.
Starting with Number 172 (fall 2009) the newsletter will only be available online in downloadable PDF format.
Click here to download the current issue.
As early as the fall of 2000 APHA was offering downloadable PDF versions of most issues of the newsletter. These following digitized back issues are now available for download:
2009: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2008: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2007: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2006: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2005: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2004: [Winter] [Spring] [Summer] [Fall]
2003: [Spring] [Summer] [Fall] [Winter]
2002: [Spring] [Summer] [Fall] [Winter]
2001: [Spring] [Summer] [Fall] [Winter]
2000: [Fall] [Winter]
Submitting an article or notice to The APHA Newsletter
Brian Frykenberg is the editor of the newsletter. Send him submissions of news or notices that may be of potential interest to members of APHA or anyone interested in the history of printing at newsletter@printinghistory.org
The newsletter editor prefers to receive submissions as e-mail attachments, created, if possible, in Word or WordPerfect.
Advertising in The APHA Newsletter
You may purchase quarter-, half-. or full-page advertising spaces in the newsletter by contacting the advertising manager at advertising@printinghistory.org. Download the Advertising Rate Sheet here.
APHA’s 34th Annual Conference, “The Book Beautiful,” meets in Newport, Rhode Island, October 16th–18th, 2009, during our 35th anniversary year. The program has been published and registration is now open. William S. Peterson, emeritus professor of English at the University of Maryland and editor of APHA’s journal, Printing History, will deliver the keynote address.
The recent issue of the Newsletter contains an announcement of the upcoming annual conference in Newport, Rhode Island; various notices of interest; chapter news from across the country; articles by Paul Moxon on the Vandercook and by Frank Romano on the typographic point; and a trustee profile of Russell Maret. Download it in PDF form here.
You'll read in the summer newsletter that from the fall issue 2009 (number 172) onwards the Newsletter will only be available in electronic form on this website. It will no longer be printed and mailed to members, a significant cost savings that may have an unexpected benefit: going electronic will make it possible for us to produce more newsletters each year. For the time being the design of the newsletter will remain the same, so those who wish to print it out will have the recognizable and familiar object to hold. Soon though we will reformat it somewhat for easier reading on your i-Phone or Blackberry. Of course we will continue to archive the newsletter on the website, so that all back issues will be available. We are also investigating ways to feed the publication to interested subscribers.
The excellent Brian Frykenberg is stepping down from the editorship of the Newsletter after the next issue and we need are seeking an active and well-connected member to replace him. The new editor will come just as we are migrating from print to electronic, a great opportunity for a creative, web-savvy person to expand and enhance our beloved workhorse. Contact Martin Antonetti, the VP for Publications, at mantonet@smith.edu if you are interested or know of someone who might be.