Re: future of garden magazines

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Dan

 

 

 

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From: BrookBarb@aol.com

To: gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 1:42 PM

Subject: Re: [GWL] future of garden magazines

Poor management decisions, misguided owners or out of touch editors
notwithstanding, the internet has had a significant impact on the decline of
magazines

Certainly it has, for the industry as a whole. But if any particular title is losing ground to the internet it's because, as I said before, that they're not providing what the reader wants.

>( how many of you write regularly for websites?) <

As writers, this is actually a downside. The question should be, how many of you write for websites that _pay_ you? I refuse to play that game. The plumber doesn't fix my pipes for free, why should I provide a valuable commodity (information) on that basis.

One of the reason the internet has hurt freelancers is that so many supposed professional writers are willing to give their stuff away.

>and will continue

to do so.<

More shame on them.


Brook

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