QLUB

QLUB Newsletters

The QL Users Bureau (QLUB) was set up as a club for QL users to get free help with their QL and Psion software and to provide bi-monthly newsletters. Members initially paid a subscription of £35.00 per year and received a free update to their Psion software and discounts on software purchased through Sinclair or QLUB. By the time the first issue was sent out, apparently 65% of users had joined.

The first issue was a fairly simple 4 page effort laid out rather like the QL manual. By the second issue, a professional journalist had been hired to run the newsletter, and by March 1985 when it had a membership of over 10,000 membership of QLUB became free in what was described as “…an enhancement to the service.”

In July 1985, QLUB announced Sinclair had negotiated a deal with the new magazine QL World (yes, that QL World) under which QLUB members would receive copies of the new magazine free for the first 6 months.

In all, 9 issues of QLUB newsletter were published (that I know of) and QL World continued under various owners such as Robert Maxwell for many years before finally being closed by its last publisher Arcwind in 1994.