[Sca-cooks] The Cooks Source Editor Speaks at last

[Karen Lyons-McGann]

When you name yourself publisher and editor. No training or experience  
required.   Her story reminds me of some scams people my dad knew used  
to run.  They owned a small print shop. One scamwas to place ads in  
the classifieds of specialy magazinesadvertising '10 amazing items  
relevent to magazines topic!!  Send $1 to Box---'.   In those days  
more than a few people would send actual dollars. Which they pocketed.  
People would forget about it while waiting 6 to 8 weeks for delivery  
and processing.  Ditto for the few checks except for the few local  
enough to find you.   If any one insisted on receiving theirgoods they  
copied info from an encyclopedia or specialty publication , set it up  
to run off a few at theend of some other project and mail it off.   
Another was to sell ad space for a local map or shoppers map.  Don't  
print the thing until you've already made themoney and print no more  
than to equal the few free copies you promised each merchant.  The map  
info you'd get from other maps or from local records.

  There was probably a local specialty magazine version which she  
heard of and until now successfully made money from on several  
topics.  If she never felt the need tocreate an on-line presence she'd  
be getting away with it still.

Sent from my iPod

On Nov 13, 2010, at 6:55 PM, "Terry Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net> wrote:

> The finer points of copyright law?  How do you become a  
> publication's art director or editor without learning the basics?