tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447546381460796864.post4614391623676601595..comments2023-11-16T21:09:34.266-05:00Comments on WGT: "With a little help from your friends"Siggy Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13109589783726381950noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447546381460796864.post-2358361089231249142012-04-12T09:26:51.527-04:002012-04-12T09:26:51.527-04:00Great to see comments here. You can also get a con...Great to see comments here. You can also get a conversation going on our FB page https://www.facebook.com/WritersGetTogetherSiggy Buckleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13109589783726381950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447546381460796864.post-70707363269538009252012-04-11T23:08:54.924-04:002012-04-11T23:08:54.924-04:00Significant post Bruce. Social media is important ...Significant post Bruce. Social media is important for writers as long as writers remember to be helpful, collaborative, supportive of one another and giving, as you suggested. When that happens, old media is trumped and new media gains dominance. Traditional media which has reigned and has hampered the writing community is faltering. Just today there was an announcement that the government is suing 5 publishers, including Apple for price-fixing. There is a new game in town...Amazon, ebooks, indie writers, the innovative writing community who is establishing its own pricing model and undercutting publishers who have made it impossible for them. There is a direct relationship writers have with consumers (pricing their ebooks at 1.99 or .99) bypassing the middle men publishers who made the profits; publishers' greed and oppression has caused this and that relationship is now closing out traditional publishing, lowering their profits and "necessitating" price-fixing to compete. The paradigm is shifting. <br />As writers we can harness the power of social media to create our own dominance and independence. Writers are also readers. Somehow, traditional publishing forgot this...new publishers like Amazon have not. Through social media the writing community will grow and support itself as readers and writers and the word will exponentially spread, starting slowly at first then bam... I look at how the Huffington Post did it. Social media helped to put it on the map. Petition sites like Change.org? The same. Social media broadcasts exponentially. Cable subscriptions, mainstream TV? Dwindling. Continued paradigm shift...that will grow with mobile devices. I am so glad and so happy to see this growth to drub the traditionals. Eventually, they will have to stand up and smell the roses...and begin to innovate and move away from artistically nullifying practices (like slush piling scores of writers)...or be out of business.<br /><br />Sorry for the rant. Totally hyped up by your post, Bruce. Siggy...here's my blog: http://www.thefatandtheskinnyonwellness.com/ (thanks for giving it a look see and joining.<br />Here's the article I wrote for Technorati about the Justice Department threatening to sue publishers for price-fixing... <br /><br /> http://technorati.com/business/article/justice-department-threatens-to-sue-apple/ (Today ...they sued.)Carole Di Tostihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11831790843436160256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1447546381460796864.post-27793622202749608122012-04-10T18:01:33.952-04:002012-04-10T18:01:33.952-04:00Great post and great concepts Bruce.Great post and great concepts Bruce.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05039139421361895786noreply@blogger.com