Hi all,

At long last and with great pleasure, I am able to announce the 
existence of a new on-line TEI subscription and registration system: 
http://www/tei-shop.org/. For the first time this will allow you to 
subscribe to the TEI as an individual and register for the annual 
conference. Institutional members, who generally prefer to be invoiced, 
will be able to sign up and be invoiced on-line hopefully by the 
beginning of 2010; we should be able to begin selling paper copies of 
the Guidelines directly from the site in the new year as well (currently 
these are available from Omnipress on a print-on-demand basis: 
http://shop.omnipress.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=161 ).

The TEI has long been well supported by institutions and projects, but 
has maintained a relatively low base of individual subscribers. At $50, 
individuals can subscribe to the TEI for a rate comparable to or lower 
than that charged by similarly influential scholarly organisations. With 
this on-line registration system, enrolling as a subscriber is now a 
straightforward task. Subscribers receive a number of benefits including 
1/2 price registration at the conference (a $45 benefit), the ability to 
order copies of the print guidelines at cost, and significant discounts 
on select software such as the OxygenXML editor. These benefits are also 
open to affiliates of member institutions. Member institutions, which 
provide the TEI with the bulk of its financial support also have 
additional benefits including the right to vote in TEI elections. They 
are eligible for other benefits such as a digitization service which we 
hope to be able to announce at the members meeting this November.

The new TEI webstore also allows individuals in the TEI community to 
register for our annual conference. Early registration for the 2009 
conference (Nov. 11-15, 2009 in Ann Arbor, MI [USA]) is now open. Early 
registration fees are $90 for the general public, $45 for affiliates of 
member institutions and subscribers, and $10 for students Early 
registration closes October 10, after which the fees are $120 (public), 
$60 (member affiliates, subscribers), and $15 (students). The cheapest 
block of hotel rooms on reserve for concert goers in Ann Arbor expires 
September 24--so you may want to register even before the end of the 
early registration period.

Let me once again invite you to consider joining the TEI as an 
individual subscriber--and encouraging institutions and projects you 
work with to consider joining as institutional members. And of course, 
sign up for the conference!

-dan

P.S. Please let me know how your experience with the site goes--good and 
bad. We expect to be tinkering with the look at feel throughout the 
fall. As our privacy notice indicates, security of your credit 
information is extremely tight. Our web site uses SSL encryption, and 
passes credit information directly on to the Credit Card gateway for 
processing. We do not store any credit information on our servers and 
have no access to any credit card numbers submitted at the site.
-- 

Daniel Paul O'Donnell
Associate Professor of English
University of Lethbridge

Chair and CEO, Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/)
Co-Chair, Digital Initiatives Advisory Board, Medieval Academy of America
President-elect (English), Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (http://sdh-semi.org/)
Founding Director (2003-2009), Digital Medievalist Project (http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/)

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