Re: future of garden magazines

**"Dan Clost" d*@sympatico.ca**

There's another little bit that hasn't popped up yet.
Many gardeners who come into our nursery are working with information from
two sources- one is print (newspaper and magazine) and the other is web
sourced. The latter is the more common of the two. When I ask our customers,
they say they just do a quick search on whatever aspect of
gardening/horticulture that interests them at the moment. They get the
answer relatively quickly, they don't have to wade through a lot of other
material and the price is right.
Poor management decisions, misguided owners or out of touch editors
notwithstanding, the internet has had a significant impact on the decline of
magazines ( how many of you write regularly for websites?) and will continue
to do so.
As garden writers, I think we need to come to terms with this and adjust our
own self-marketing strategies. Even though we don't want to see print media
disappear.
Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Saxon Holt" <sholt@saxonholt.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 11:52 AM
Subject: [GWL] future of garden magazines

> I've been reading the threads on the demise of garden magazines and hope
our
> list mates will stay away from judgement and criticism of our fellow
> journalists (and editors) who struggle to find an outlet and work to make
> many different styles of magazines.  Whether The Gardener, Organic
> Gardening, Flower and Garden or any other magazine survives depends in no
> small part to our own industry supporting their efforts.
>
> If we do not subscribe, or support an editorial direction, or have our own
> work published by any particular magazine is not important.   This list
> should certainly find a way to lift everyone.
>
> Saxon Holt
>
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> 415-898-8880
> http://www.saxonholt.com
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>
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