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[GWL]: Garden Writing Problems

Barbara Martin makes an interesting and probably very valid point - The
Internet allows us to consolidate all the basic how-to information in one
place and leave it available to the new gardener permanently.  If we equate
new gardeners to younger gardeners, they are more likely to be Internet
savvy.  So maybe what we are looking at is a situation in which the Internet
covers the basic how-to information that has been repeated every year in
publication since the 50's.  Maybe in Florida, with the audience being older
folks, then the Internet is not yet an option.
If we accept that this trend is definitely real and going to continue, then
the magazines, columns, and books need to have topics and data, not easily
found on the Internet.  I think that is a pretty good model.  Unfortunately,
the publishing industry will take ten years to discover it.
There is synergy between television, newspapers, radio, and magazines and in
a few places around the country, that is happening.  A TV station, a
newspaper, and a radio station are getting together in the same building and
sharing staff and the same Internet site.  How the national magazines fit in
is difficult to visualize at the moment, but the concept should still be
valid.  Also how this phenomenon will affect free lance writers, I'm not
sure.  It seems to me, there should be a growing need for free lancers, but
that is not the case as best I can tell.
Jeff Ball

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