Most of that cost is the duplication/printing - I suggested years ago that they put them on a CD-ROM and sell this for say £20 (as I did to Brian for his census indices) 1 or 2 CD's occupy much less space than 1m of paper.

There are problems however in that many of the original transcripts were done 15 years ago on now-obsolete machines (eg BBC micro) and the floppy disks have mostly been lost. They could however scan the masters and issue these as pdf images (not so searchable however). Some could also do with a good revision (I've put up some sections of various parishes missed as it would appear little or no consistency check was done for missing years)

Though it is good to see them finally getting a site up, though whether Manx genealogy needs 3 MB's I'm not sure - you need people willing to answer questions (and as Sue will confirm) remove copious loads of Spam once you are in the sights of such low life. Must be a sign of new blood as I tried 7 years ago or more to move things along but got nowhere as many on the committee wanted nothing to do with computers.