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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
Join Date: Oct-2004
Location: Brisbane
Country: Australia
Posts: 87
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Dear Social Sledgehammer,
I read your rant with interest, especially the part where you said that you thought that you were a pretty easy going guy who liked to call a spade a spade, and the part about how you didn’t like to mince words and occasionally burnt bridges kind of reminded me of me.
My immediate thoughts were, here is a guy a lot like me, what has he got to say? So I read it and re-read it, and I’m still trying to comprehend exactly what it is you are trying to say - I mean apart from the fact that you still have SOTL from Will Heath are you really trying to tell us that by association Bonsai Today and Morten Albek are guilty of some foul deed?
Let me attempt to share some facts about the publication industry. (Probably a waste of time). Due to the low run of specialist publications like Bonsai, there is next to no mark up from Publisher to Retailer (The best that I could do, without buying hundreds of copies, was 15percent). And Al, just so that you know, some of us actually like buying Bonsai books to include in our library even if they are often somewhat repetitive.
Your comment as to this being the 21st century and the age of computers and the Internet and why some of us are content with books probably has a lot to do with the fact that on the Internet it takes 7 pages of comments from 25 members to discuss the fore and against of sifting soil and still not coming to any agreement or consensus..
As to Editors paying $200 or even $2000 per article, I sincerely doubt that there would be any increase in the numbers of people coming from the corners of your nation to contribute that don’t already because those who care already do and those who would only do so for money are probably not worth reading.
Hmmm! How many bridges is that?
Jon
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