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Brian Schwartz is to online publishing as You Tube was to video. I am sure every movie maker in the business was concerned about You Tube, but, today filmmakers use You Tube for free advertisements to enhance their market place.
I think what Brian Schwartz does is very exciting. Very. He has written his own books and this is where he found online publishing an inspiration to enhance the economy. He has the power to not only enhance the economy but to give hope to authors who are seeking to reach their audience.
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50 Interviews is the series that launched me into digital publishing. What started as Kindle conversions for my own authors has expanded to a service I provide other authors & publishers, for high quality digital conversions of nearly every type.
Dare I say is another Bill Gates in his beginnings. I the video above he states he is making over $500 per month in his relationship with Amazon. That amount doesn't qualify him as a Bill Gates income, but, the beginnings were somewhat the same. Bill Gates modified computer software he was working with as an employee and created "Windows." Brian Schwartz is doing the same thing EXPECT he was no one's employee when he perfected a platform to publish electronic books independently.
One of my pet peeve's about the USA Constitution's First Amendment regarding Freedom of Speech and publishing books as a profit for capitalists, is the fact a person has to be able to afford the book in order to assert the First Amendment RIGHT. Brian Schwartz is reaching to the goal of better access of printed material, hence, IDEAS of others. That is good thing.
Dare I say is another Bill Gates in his beginnings. I the video above he states he is making over $500 per month in his relationship with Amazon. That amount doesn't qualify him as a Bill Gates income, but, the beginnings were somewhat the same. Bill Gates modified computer software he was working with as an employee and created "Windows." Brian Schwartz is doing the same thing EXPECT he was no one's employee when he perfected a platform to publish electronic books independently.
One of my pet peeve's about the USA Constitution's First Amendment regarding Freedom of Speech and publishing books as a profit for capitalists, is the fact a person has to be able to afford the book in order to assert the First Amendment RIGHT. Brian Schwartz is reaching to the goal of better access of printed material, hence, IDEAS of others. That is good thing.
As much as capitalists love the freedoms of America, they equally hate it when it cannot be controlled. The internet and those able to harness the expertise to use it are a threat to profit driven motives. Dare I say someone such as Brian Schwartz is a very dangerous man when realizing he is exercising First Amendment Rights that actually provide freedom to ACCESS as well as thinking. For what good is thinking and freedom if no one else has access to it. It more or less is like being in a prison cell waiting for a profit driven publisher to deem one worthy of publishing.
If one makes a comparison to words on a page, it is why Monks spend their lifetimes as scribes to be sure there are books to access for the eons. A very noble way to live a life.
A few months ago I was listening to an interview with a newly minted online author. I want to say it was on NPR. It was a style of interview akin to their content. But, the author was a woman, a young woman who had written a novel. She was unable to get any of the traditional publishers to be interested in her, so she finally decided in pure desperation of desire to be read by others then herself; published her work online. She thought nothing would come of it. Didn't expect to make one thin dime for all the rejection she received from the publishing world. Within a month she had sold a million dollars US of the online version of her book. She would no longer have to waitress tables to finish her college education and she was able to secure her entire future to write to her audience.
What happened there was success in a way that is necessary for authors. She found security for the rest of her life in the simple desperation to be read by others.
See authors suffer when others don't read their work. They suffer not only emotional stress but sincere financial stress. Some would say they suffer for a purpose, but, I doubt the suffering financial has much to do with their work. Authors suffer because of emotional dedication to the purpose of writing their ideas.
All to often financial hardship hinders an author. So, the young lady finding success in her online novel now has the financial means to secure her entire future to share her ideas. She can not only write her passion, but, she can do so for all her life.
The USA First Amendment is as much about access of ideas as it is about freedom of thought. The world Brian Schwartz is creating is fulfilling as much of the First Amendment right of citizens as those with ideas to be heard.
One might say libraries, primarily public libraries, are the pinnacle of first amendment rights. Yes and no. Even in the case of libraries, by definition, the 'idea' has to be published to be a apart of our rights to freedom of expression. I wish him a great deal of luck in his venture. It is as much necessary as noble.
