Re: [epub] Originality should extend to IDEAS too - not just writing

["M. Evans" <marye@xxxxxxx>]

From: "M. Evans" <marye@mvp.net>

From: "S.Sivasubramanian" <sivaraj@giasmd01.vsnl.net.in>

>Admittedly yes.  But imagine what would happen if the current
>trend continues, where many ezine publishers simply take an
>*original* idea and do a write-up on it in their own style, or words.
>Not much addition to the basic concept, simply re-stating it in
>different words.  

But these people won't succeed.  There will be a shake out, and all the
copycats will be known as that.  If the thing your purport to teach in the
article has not in some way altered your own experience, then I submit to
you that whatever is written, whether rehashed or copied, will ring false.  

It's hard to have ideas pass through a mind and not have an impact.  and
what comes out once the idea goes in is flavored with the experience of the
person who learned from it.

In the case of just rehashing, it's clear to me that the folks who do this
have learned nothing.  And it doesn't take a lot of
investigation/reading/website visiting, to see more of the same old same old.

I think I'll step out of this discussion.  There is a thought  that hovers
just outside my ability to grasp, synthesize, and put it on paper -er
screen.  And of course, that's the one that would clear this up once and
for all . . .

I keep thinking we're not expressing opposing ideas. . .

>When the *newbies* (they aren't going to remain newbies forever)
>read similar - if not the same - matter across different ezines, 
>they're going to start getting bored.  And when they are overloaded
>with email, they're going to unsubscribe from atleast a few of these
>ezines with repetitive thoughts, concepts and ideas.  And guess
>which of these are going to be FIRST on their list ?  The one with
>original concepts, or the ones that specialize in rehashes ?

snip
>
>I'm not totally putting down reprints or rehashes.  Just pointing
>out that an ezine developed with reprints as its primary content
>source is soon going to see a drop off in readership, when it
>competes in a targeted niche with others that provide ORIGINAL
>material.
>

Well, that'll teach me to read what someone else writes, entirely before
reacting!   I agree.


>My suggestion is only that ezine publishers rely more on their
>own ideas and experience for articles, than simply copying another's
>so that, in the long run, they retain their readers by sheer content.
>
>Opinions, anyone ?
Agreed!

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