GOB Gone?

[Leeward Rail]

Sorry. Late to the news. I had wondered why my local bookstore couldn't fulfill my standing order for Good Old Boat, anymore.

While I agree in theory with the above, the difficulty is there is too much information, and a whole lot of bad information. So until one arrives to a level of competence it's very difficult to filter out the wheat from the chafe...

Good Old Boat did that filtering

That's the thing..

I keep hearing this talk about publishing as if it is irrevocably tied to using dead trees. Why ? A decent daylight readable waterproof ereader beats a book IMO

So why can't GOB and other publishers dump the huge printing, warehouse and shipping costs and just put their quality content out digitally? It's still "publishing"
That way, those of us looking to get quality content will still get it.

 

[thinwater]

... So why can't GOB and other publishers dump the huge printing, warehouse and shipping costs and just put their quality content out digitally? It's still "publishing"
That way, those of us looking to get quality content will still get it.

People want free content. The filtering is expensive even if the paper is free. Publishing, with a few noted exceptions, follows the money.