What is your view of electronic art magazines?

[Kyriakos]

Possibly this could have been posted in the arts forum, but it is a general question so i guess it could be part of OT as well.

I have some publications in electronic magazines, lit magazines in the internet that is, but i do not rate them highly. Up to now i kept sending my worst work to such media, being of the view that i should preserve the better one for printed publication.

But i recently changed my mind, mostly influenced by the fact that these last two weeks i wrote 10 new stories, and therefore it appears to not matter anymore what i send, since i will have produced better and more work soon anyway.

So i just emailed two stories to two literary magazines in the web with which i have never been in collaboration with.

I was wondering if you view this medium as important. Personally i feel most people (and myself included anyway) would not compare it with the printed magazine, but maybe it has its worth and place in the new world of art. Definitely it does no harm to have as many e-publications as possible. Maybe people looking for your work online can search for them too, if nothing else is provided by this.

 

[BvBPL]

I am largely unimpressed by them. Because the low publication costs of such magazines the editors can put a whole lot more content out. Which means the editors are doing less editing of submissions and just printing more which brings down the average level of content.

Whole lot of these magazines that are focused on genre fiction. Not that genre fiction is, in and of itself bad, but a whole lot of genre work is bad simply because bad writers are more likely to write genre fiction.

 

[Kyriakos]

I think that there might be some english-speaking ones which are quite viable as enterprises. I know, for example, a new english author who writes horror, and i view his work as quite good. He is in such magazines, i think also in printed ones as well.

Of course given the choice anyone would probably prefer printed publication to electronic one. I had an offer by a publishing house to have an e-book, but turned it down cause i view it as a bad move. If i was in the US or Britain, though, i might have given it more thought, since there e-books can actually become something. But here only printed books matter still Scripta manent, e-scripta volant.