Re: Kindle and its peers

**D* G* <g*@gmail.com>**

I've been interested to read all the links that have been shared and have
been thinking about this a bit in the last week or so.  I think e-readers
are going to give content producers the same advantages that the Net now
delivers.  The barriers to entry to publishing are falling -  the Net gave
us direct contact with our readers.  Software and that contact allows us to
write and get paid for it directly.  Ebooks now give us the ability to write
books and sell them without having to go through publishers and as the
e-reader develops, ebooks  will be easier and easier to write/code for this
kind of distribution.  2010 will see me bring all my ebooks to both kindle
and e-pub distribution (at least that's the plan) :-)

The fun thing from a content creators point of view is that the same thing
holds true for garden magazines.  There are now no barriers to starting your
own garden magazine.   If you can deliver it via e-reader, then the entire
notion of  traditional printing/distribution etc disappears (just as it does
for books).   Yes, established magazines will have a lifeline tossed to them
because they already have expertise, a reader-channel and reader-base but
there's nothing stopping any of you from developing your own channel and
reader numbers.

Just as there's absolutely nothing  stopping any of you from creating
specialist magazines (or any kind) that will meet specific needs.  As the
Net has allowed specialist websites to exist, so this distribution  channel
will allow specialist e-publications to exist.  Don't like the existing
gardening magazines? Find them boring? Start your own! :-)

This just ain't your grandma's publishing world anymore - from my point of
view, this has the potential to become a golden age of publishing.

As always - my .02

Doug

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Lorraine Flanigan <
lorraine.flanigan@sympatico.ca> wrote:

> I love Betty's concept of a netbook for reading magazines. Portability
> is a big issue with magazines -- don't we all read them while we're on
> the s
>
-- 
Doug Green
Editor-in-Chief,
SGF Publishing
http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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