Comments on: Want an iPad? Pet-loving reasons to rationalize it

By: Paul Goodland

Paul Goodland — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 22:59:19 +0000

Hi Ericka - I wrote a story about my old dog Baxter and lost my only copy of the magazine…. is it possible to buy a copy? It was in 2007, I think the spring issue. Thanks :)

By: Sandra Smolker

Sandra Smolker — Fri, 07 May 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Ericka, thanks for your reply. Oh my, that is too cool. Now I’m really sure the iPad will eliminate books in the very near future - especially for kids. Gotta speak to Santa this XMAS.

By: ericka

ericka — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:48:34 +0000

@Sandra- check this out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....r_embedded

It gets about 8-10 hours

@Melanie good question! It is light enough to hold, but I would read it in bed if reading a book. And then hold it like a hardcover book propped on my knees.

By: Sandra Smolker

Sandra Smolker — Thu, 06 May 2010 13:15:36 +0000

When I wrote my ebook, Who’s Your Vet?, I was told Kindle and Sony can’t read pictures. In addition to my story and lots of useful resources, I have 21 pictures of my beautiful boys. Since the ebook can be read on-line, I’m sure the iPad is the way to go!

By: Sandra Smolker

Sandra Smolker — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:37:25 +0000

How many hours can you stay on before it needs to be recharged?

By: Melanie

Melanie — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:25:16 +0000

What do you prop it on if you can’t get your knees up? LOL

By: Sandra Smolker

Sandra Smolker — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:03:53 +0000

“Sorry, the rumor is true. Print magazines and print newspapers are going bye-bye. Heck, I closed my own Naples dog magazine last year.”

I totally agree. I feel ebooks will replace paperbacks and hard cover books.

By: ericka

ericka — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:20:16 +0000

Kate- Naples dog shuttered in late 2008 due to our local advertisers brick and mortar stores (pet stores, etc) going out of business and ad sales plummeted. Coastal Dog was an overlapping project I had, but it also fell to the wayside because the investors wanted to see it go digital and I held out too long vying for print.
Even the CEO of Borders and past CEO of Kibbles and Bits were working with me and kept telling me I needed to change the focus and become digital. I too, love the feel of a print magazine and held on until the wave crashed. And rolled right over me.

Then the general economy crashed and magazines started their downward spiral…wand they are not going to come back up anywhere close to where they were.

During this time, social magazines such as People, OK, etc. were about the only model which kept their advertiser rates up. Even if they lost some ad:copy rates.

The hardest hit were news magazines such as Time and, of course, newspapers.

By: schnauzerfan

schnauzerfan — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:51:12 +0000

Astro? No wonder he’s hostile, bitter even. http://missfairchild.files.wor.....astro2.jpg

Anyway. I have been debating between an IPod Touch or an IPad. What I really want is probably an IPhone, but we don’t have cell service for them way out on the frontier…

I will probably just continue to blunder along with my blackberry and my kindle (which needs to be plugged into a computer to download a book) because we don’t have cell service for them way out on the frontier.

By: David S. Greene

David S. Greene — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:22:08 +0000

One of my more enjoyable behind-the-scenes pastimes around here is when I get a chance to delete that nitwit’s braindead barrage of vitriolic spew (those were all big words I’m sure he doesn’t even understand) when he gets snared in the spam filter. It’s like holding a tick in tweezers and burning it with a match — I know, I’m sadistic. I’ve heard that before.