Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 84, Issue 15

**S* H* <s*@saxonholt.com>**

On Jan 13, 2010, at 6:22 PM, gardenwriters-request@lists.ibiblio.org  
wrote:

>  http://www.thewonderfactory.com/ Are we ready? Should we be forming  
> collaborative teams of writers, photographers and videographers to  
> take on assignments?  How about redoing books so they fit this new,  
> expanded format? And about video?.time to give that art a new look.  
> Still photography may even take a back seat to motion. Etc, etc, etc.
>
> This is the future for garden writers, of that I am sure.
>
> Teaming with microbes,

Jeff is absolutely right that this is the future and it is incredibly  
exciting that publishers are adapting to this.  But is no threat to  
professional writers or photographers who will be working with  
multimedia publishers.  Garden publishers are traditionally behind the  
times, but at some point they too will have to adapt to this as the  
new audiences will expect more interactive media.

It is a threat to those writers who only do self publishing and can  
not keep up with the technology demands of this format.  Photographers  
(many of whom are now videographers with the amazing capability of  
hand held cameras) are adapting to multimedia and are in a much better  
position to self-publish and provide content to this visual format.

Writers who are reasonably adept with the new media will be able to do  
this (see Rick Darke's self produced video for the Wild Garden - http://www.rickdarke.com/wildgarden.htm) 
  but without the support of larger publishers it will be increasingly  
hard for any self publishing to stand out.  Marketing is everything in  
the teaming sea of on-line content that is growing every day.

Unless Jeff's microbe team knows more about the technology that we do  
I would not advice any subset of writers in this group to even hope to  
keep pace with the professional publishers.

Teaming with photographers <g>

Saxon

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