[New-Poetry] From Page to Pixel: The Evolution of Online Journals

[James Cervantes]

Old news, but good that it's still reaching out.
Go into any bookstore - any - and see how many print literary journals you
find.  Then go online and see how many online literary journals you find.
 Factor in potential readership.  Duh.

- Jim

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Jeff Newberry <jeff.newberry at gmail.com>wrote:

> >From Page to Pixels:  The Evolution of Online Journals
> Sandra Beasley in *Poets & Writers*
>
> Not long ago a friend of mine gave a reading, after which she was
> approached by the editor of a prestigious print magazine. Admiring one of
> the poems she had read, he asked if he might include it in a future issue.
> She was flattered, but explained that the poem had already been published.
> He asked where, and she told him: a relatively young journal that publishes
> twice a year—online.
>
> "Oh," he said. "Don't worry. That doesn't count."
>
> Most of us share the goal of finding a good home for our work. But where is
> that home nowadays? Where will our work "count" and have the greatest
> readership and impact? Creative writers stand at the edge of a digital
> divide. On one side: the traditions of paper. On the other: the lure of the
> Internet. As glossy magazines die by the dozen and blogs become increasingly
> influential, we face the reality that print venues—despite their traditional
> connotations of prestige, permanence, and physical craft—are rapidly ceding
> ground to Web-based publishing.
>
> http://www.pw.org/content/page_pixels_evolution_online_journals
>
>
>
>
> Best,
> Jeff Newberry
>
> --
> You cannot tell people what to do, you can only tell them parables; and
> that is what art really is, particular stories of particular people and
> experience, from which each according to his own immediate and peculiar
> needs may draw his own conclusion. --W.H. Auden
>
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