On 10 Jan 2006 at 16:19, Rebecca Seiferle wrote:
> ... and I won't be saying thankya for
> the moral instruction which is predicated on corporate biz ethics.<
No moral instruction at all, merely straightforward advice about how it's
wise to be honest with your vendors and customers. Small businesses
where the decision-makers are inevitably in close touch with their
customers know that; big businesses get away from it as the decision-
makers get further and further removed from dealing with actual
customers. A poetry magazine is a small business in that regard.
> There's no money involved in The Drunken Boat except mine which goes
> to the registration and server fees, so it has neither 'customers' nor
> 'vendors' <
No contributors (vendors), no subscribers (customers), no readers
(potential customers)? Why bother, then?
> ... And since I was aware of
> the numbers, the submission page has always noted that we're not open
> for unsolicited submissions ...<
Well, as I said before, this is eminently sensible. It avoids the problem of
opening and answering the unsolicited mail. And, of course, having no
subscribers or contributors means that there's no solicited mail, either,
and that solves the mail problem entirely. I guess it's really just a
personal website, then, with a logo. Well, that's ok. Why call it a
magazine, though?
> ... My idea of the magazine to begin with
> was to create a kind of poetic space for other's enthusiasms, for work
> that might be too different to their previous work, too long,<
Too long?! And you objected to a few paragraphs of email?
> On the other hand, its success in some sense, has brought other
> problems with it, for instance, infighting between editors, someone
> writing to suggest that they could do a 'better job' on a particular
> feature than someone else who's been already working on it, deception
> tactics, various people attempting to attach themselves to it and me
> permanently, etc, assumptions of relationship, all of which occasions
> have made me rethink the magazine.<
If there are no vendors (contributors) and no customers (subscribers or
readers), how do you have features and publication and infighting
between editors? What are the editors editing if there are explicitly no
contributors? Why are they bothering if there are explicitly no
subscribers or readers?
Marcus
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