by Kimberly A. Cook (Twitter@ WarriorTales)
A peculiar thing seems to happen when I buy or like something; the item gets discontinued, cancelled or the new model is released a week later. This happens with everything from nail polish to tv series and Mystic Mint cookies.
So imagine my chagrin at Sunday’s article in the New York Times about Barnes and Noble turning their focus from making Nook hardware to providing digital content – aka books and writing. I recently purchased the Nook tablet, right before the new HD ones came out, to add to my first generation Nook.
While my office closet looks like a graveyard for tech gadgets and I just found out I need to drown my old Blackberry phone in salt water for a week and then drill it to make sure no one ever gets my data – one quote in the article gave me hope. At the end the person states that content distribution is one of Barnes & Nobles strengths and content is their crown jewel.
Guess who the real crown jewels are? Us writers and authors! Because without us, there are no stories and no content. Felt like buying myself a new tiara. (I have a plastic one from Party City, but I think real jewels are needed for it to be an official crown jewel.)
While all these big companies fight over who is coming out on top in the ereader/cell phone/tablets wars and AT&T wants to charge us for making our future cars rolling wifi hot spots, when it comes to true software – writers rule. Without our imagination and brain software there is no content for these mega companies to dispense or we can sell it our own selves with the advent of Indie publishing.
It’s always a good business decision to take stock, sit back and realize while the big conglomerates fight over hardware production, we can go about our empire building by using our very own imagination brain software to write our tales and entertain and educate our readers. We are the crown jewels!
Read the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/25/business/media/barnes-noble-weighs-its-nook-losses.html?_r=0
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