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Subject:Re: Death knell for quality content? From:"Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:56:29 -0700
Have you read any magazines lately...?
The only difference between this and most other
mass-market publications is that the publisher
*admits* knowing that he's publishing poorly
written material.
Gene Kim-Eng
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From: <john -at- garisons -dot- com>
> To my mind the biggest difference is that the provider/publisher KNOWS
> it's poor quality and puts it out there anyway. And I doubt they'll say
> anything like "This might not be written good, and it may not be right,
> but we think it's good enough."
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