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[GWL]: New Electronic Publishing Venture

I'd like to announce a new online publishing venture in response to 
concerns about writers and e-rights.

It may not be for everyone but the details are below.  If you are 
interested in pursuing the idea, drop me a note offline and I'll send you 
the first draft of the business concept when it is finalized. The essential 
business partnerships are in place to bootstrap an online venture of this 
kind and we're starting to get our ducks in line to launch.  The draft of 
the business plan is exactly that, a draft, and it will be modified as 
needs be to meet the needs of the folks who decide to join the venture.  I 
welcome all input and see this as an experiment for us all.

In its briefest form, the new site is intended to become the central hub 
for garden *writing*.  We won't try to become "the" information site in 
competition to almost every other site out there. The objective is to 
promote good garden writing itself and to allow writers to form 
relationships with readers to their mutual enjoyment and profit.  Naturally 
good garden writing contains good content. :-)

There are a variety of issues being developed in the business plan and the 
summary of these is as follows:

Writers control copyright of all their material published or available on 
or through the site.  Neither the publisher (Doug Green) nor the business 
operations partner (Webseed Publishing) will own any rights to the 
material. Writers can request removal of any or all material at any time 
and this content will be removed from the system. (There's only one 
short-term exception to this and it is described in the draft)  Only sales 
approved by the writer will be undertaken and values will be determined by 
the writer in conjunction with the publisher.  In other words, you own it 
and we're going to sell it for you.

You provide the content and get paid for what you sell.  Webseed publishing 
provides the business,  technical and software end (this is detailed in the 
draft) and for their efforts, webseed gets 50% of all income derived from 
sales on the site.  The author receives the other 50% from sales of special 
reports and ebooks.  (Imagine a royalty rate of 50% on your next book!) 
:-)  All of this is detailed in the draft report in greater detail.  You 
have to own the electronic rights to articles, special reports or ebooks if 
you intend to add them to the site.  You get paid a royalty on all sales 
but you do not receive an advance on any material.  This is a bootstrap 
publishing venture and the content is controlled by garden writers 
themselves rather than a large corporation with deep pockets. This is why 
we can offer a royalty of 50% rather than 5 to 10%.

Content from all experienced sources is welcome.  Because of the nature of 
the site, we welcome writers from all geographic zones and garden writing 
specialties.  The Internet is world-wide and far reaching in geography and 
soul.  Each of you will be able to carve out your own niche on this site 
and profit thereby.  I note that as editor (I'm wearing all the management 
hats on this one) I have the responsibility for setting standards of 
writing competency.  I trust that will not be a problem with this group.

Standards for both short reports (4000 words) and ebooks (40,000 words) 
will be developed and shared by those who decide to partner with us to 
provide content.

This is all described in further detail in the draft proposal. Details of 
what webseed publishing does for their money is included in the draft 
report. Questions and concerns will be addressed in future drafts of the 
proposal.

Conservative estimates from Webseed suggest it will take two years for the 
publisher to make money. The search engines can take upwards of 6 months to 
rank your articles/pages and while there are plans in place to shorten that 
time, this is not a path to quick riches.  Writers will however be paid 
based on sales as they occur.

More complete details are given in the draft report. Feel free to request 
it and send me your comments at d*@simplegiftsfarm.com

Doug


Douglas Green,
Freelance writing: You've got a story to tell - I can write it.
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/clips/clipmaster.htm

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