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We hope that you find the HBC site interesting and informative. We have amaassed information on a wide range of subjects from reasders all over the world and a wide range of jourmalistic and scholarly sources. We would like to make our site available to you for free as an open access site. Unfortunately, the growing size of our site and especially the steadily increasing bandwith usage as our readership increases has made this impossible. We need to ask you for your financial support so that we can continue to make our site available to you.
We have tried to maintain HBC as a largly open-access site. We have amaassed information on a wide range of subjects from reasders all over the world and a wide range of jourmalistic and scholarly sources. We want the information we have gathered to be available all over the world to as many people as possible. Unfortunately, the growing size of our site and especially the steadily increasing bandwith usage as our readership increases has made this impossible. There are substantial charges both for data storage and bandwith. Bathwith means site usage. Essentially evertime you click on a HBC page, HBC gets charged for bandwith usage. I know we are all used to viewing internet sites for free, but the internet is not free. And thus we need to finance HBC. For a while we used free services, but we quickly outgrew their size limits. In addition, the pop-up ads were both distracting and sometimes inappropriate. HBC is written for adults, but we know that many children and teenagers visit HBC as part of their school research assignments. Thus we do not allow any kind of outside pop-ups which are not only annoying, but all too often are in poor taste. Many sites finance their opperation by selling adds and pop-ups which install cookies on your computer. We do not do this. HBC is completely free of distracting popups and spywear that can cause all kinfs of problems to your computer.
HBC offers a variety of scubscription plans for readers. We have endevored to keep the prices very low and to create plans suited to the needs of our readers. We have a regular subscription plan providing full access for an entire year. We also offer a limited 1-month subscription for students and other readers who just want access for a limited period. And we have a library/school plan so that patrons and students can freely access the HBC site.
As a result, we need to ask our readers make a small contribution to help maintain the site. The participation contribution is $25 annually. You can pay by check or use your credit card through the Paypal service.
Checks: Your check should be made out to "Apertures Press". (We accept checks in American dollars, British pounds, Euros, and New Zealand dollars.) This is a very small fee and we have purposefully set it low so that anyone interested in HBC can afford to access the site. We hope you agree that this is a small price to pay for access to the extensive HBC archive. As you probably realize, there is nothing quite like it anywhere on the internet. The contribution provides unlimited access to all of HBC, except the E-Book section.
Credit cards: You can also use your credit card to contribute to HBC. Just click on the Paypal icon here. We suggest that you also send us an e-mail to ensure that your transaction has been processed properly.
We receive numerous requests from students and parents helping their children with a wide rnge of school projects. Often this involves use of HBC to look up a very specific topic for a short period. Sometimes mothers need to see the images to make costumes. We like to assist with educational projects. Thus we offer a trial HBC access for only $10 monthly. This will allow time to research a school assignment or to look at large numbers of historical images from around the world to help prepare a costume. We would like to offer free access here, but the costs of operating a website just do not make this possible.
Checks: Your check should be made out to "Apertures Press". (We accept checks in American dollars, British pounds, Euros, and New Zealand dollars.)
Credit cards: You can also use your credit card to contribute to HBC. Just click on the Paypal icon here. We suggest that you also send us an e-mail to ensure that your transaction has been processed properly.
We also offer access to libraries and schools for their patrons and students. HBC is a very valuable source for a wide range of topics, but especially children's issues, fashion, and history. There are few sites or books that can offer so much information at so little cost. The fee is $100 annually. This provides unlimited access for 1 year. Library patrons, teachers, and students who cannot aford a Student Access subscription may want to request that their librarian secure access by arranging for access. Special arrangements can be made for schools with limited funding for library resources. In such cases please contact the HBC Webmaster.
We understand that even these low fees are beyond the capability of some readers, especilly retirees and students in developing countries. Thus we do offer complimentary access to readers who are willing to contribute information useful in building our site. This information can be contributed in whatever language the reader speaks. We are interested in both individual boyhood experiences as well as analyitical papers on historical and social subjects. If you are interested, just send us an eMail and we can discuss it.
HBC send you an eMail with the access information with the access codes very shortly after you subscribe. Paypal is susposed to inform us when you make your subscription. When this happens we then send you the access instructions. This usually takes only a few minutes. Sometimes for reasons we do not fully understand, Paypal fails to do this. We thus suggest that after subscribing that you send us an eMail. This will alert us to your subscription and we will get the access instructions to you quicker. Just use the eMail link below to send us an eMail message.
Many of our readers like to know what projects on which HBC is currently working. The $25 annual contribution fee includes a complimentary new page alert service. Just let us know if you are interested and we will notify you by e-mail when we create a new page or add to an existing page. There is no aditional charge for this service. This is an optional service. You can also see additions to HBC on our New Pages section.
We also hope that our readers will also contribute to building HBC with their personal experiences, insights and images. Reader comments and material are a major part of our website. Material from other countries in particular is very important to building our site. One of the interesting aspects of HBC is the opportunity to compare boyhood clothing and experiences to those in other countries. We have done this partially through published sources, but the personal experiences of our readers are invaluable.
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