Re: Kindle and its peers

**"* M* <B*@verizon.net>**

Read and heed, folks! I agree, Doug. You have expressed this so well and are 
a leader taking action. In addition, today's superb yet cheap digital 
cameras add to the possibilities.

-- Betty Mackey
Publisher, B. B. Mackey Books
www.mackeybooks.com

From: "Doug Green" <gardeningemail@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.
>
> Doug Green
> Editor-in-Chief,
> SGF Publishing
> http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com

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