Comments on: Another bankrupt distributor affects BHM, but we are ready for these scoundrels http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/05/06/another-bankrupt-distributor-affects-bhm-but-we-are-ready-for-these-scoundrels/ Behind the scenes of Backwoods Home Magazine with Dave Duffy. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karen in TN http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/05/06/another-bankrupt-distributor-affects-bhm-but-we-are-ready-for-these-scoundrels/comment-page-1/#comment-2372 Karen in TN Thu, 28 May 2009 22:51:03 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=920#comment-2372 Dave, Are you going to resurrect the archives on CD/DVD (not literally, necessarily, I just want to fill in my archives with PDF or HTML copies of the issues and jettison the pounds of paper that are filling up my shelves). Yes, I know, it will all be useless after the apocalypse (then again, so will much else in my house, being near to a major nuclear site), but I really need to eliminate these paper copies. I have all the archives at this point, some on paper, some on CD and the last several years as loose copies, since no further electronic versions were produced. Say what you will about Mother Earth News, they are fantastic about providing access to back issues online (and I understand why you don't do the same, although it would be nice for subscribers) and issuing archives on electronic media (no-drm, either, so it works on any of my computers and on many of the new e-ink readers. It would be fantastic to add all the back issues here to my Kindle, to carry around for reference or reading as I get spare time. Now that you are talking of moving the future of the magazine to the internet, don't forget to update the past as well. And don't do a half-way job like Organic Gardening. You can get their current issues as PDF's by subscribing online, but they have zero access to archived issues, won't sell you back-issue compilations, etc. And they are locked in to a single vendor for the magazine delivery, which would be even worse than the current retail situation for paper magazines Dave,

Are you going to resurrect the archives on CD/DVD (not literally, necessarily, I just want to fill in my archives with PDF or HTML copies of the issues and jettison the pounds of paper that are filling up my shelves). Yes, I know, it will all be useless after the apocalypse (then again, so will much else in my house, being near to a major nuclear site), but I really need to eliminate these paper copies. I have all the archives at this point, some on paper, some on CD and the last several years as loose copies, since no further electronic versions were produced. Say what you will about Mother Earth News, they are fantastic about providing access to back issues online (and I understand why you don’t do the same, although it would be nice for subscribers) and issuing archives on electronic media (no-drm, either, so it works on any of my computers and on many of the new e-ink readers. It would be fantastic to add all the back issues here to my Kindle, to carry around for reference or reading as I get spare time.

Now that you are talking of moving the future of the magazine to the internet, don’t forget to update the past as well. And don’t do a half-way job like Organic Gardening. You can get their current issues as PDF’s by subscribing online, but they have zero access to archived issues, won’t sell you back-issue compilations, etc. And they are locked in to a single vendor for the magazine delivery, which would be even worse than the current retail situation for paper magazines

]]> By: Dave Duffy http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/05/06/another-bankrupt-distributor-affects-bhm-but-we-are-ready-for-these-scoundrels/comment-page-1/#comment-2347 Dave Duffy Mon, 11 May 2009 07:09:57 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=920#comment-2347 I am small potatoes on the Government’s radar right now, but I am mindful that I will eventually be a target if Government succeeds on the road to socialism, which I think it will. I’ve thought of your question often -- how will they come after me and BHM. Our powerful self-reliant idea is that a citizen does not need Government for anything but road-building, National Defense, and a few sundries. That’s a dangerous concept for people to have if you’re a Government bent on running things. I’ll bet the IRS is their first option, and since we don’t have the money to withstand a hostile IRS audit, they would succeed in closing down our print issue. But self-reliance, like freedom, is an idea, and you just can’t kill good ideas. The internet is here to take up the slack of a shuttered paper magazine, and I and many who read this magazine will continue to spread the ideas of self-reliance and freedom via blogs, websites, forums, and other formats. Keep in mind that a future dictatorial government is not just dealing with BHM and its people, or even its generation. I’ve been talking to my daughter’’s generation, and they value government even less than my generation. They are not going to fall for any “we’ll take care of you” Government propaganda. My daughter’s generation has grown up watching incompetent Government squander her generation’s future opportunities, bankrupt social security, then bail out banks and rich investors with money her generation is expected to pay back. My daughter’s generation sees it, understands it, and is totally pissed about it. I’m not sure what they will do, but I am certain they will not stand for it. They will refuse to be the bill-payer for previous generations’ ponzi schemes. I think they are revolutionaries by necessity. I am small potatoes on the Government’s radar right now, but I am mindful that I will eventually be a target if Government succeeds on the road to socialism, which I think it will. I’ve thought of your question often — how will they come after me and BHM. Our powerful self-reliant idea is that a citizen does not need Government for anything but road-building, National Defense, and a few sundries. That’s a dangerous concept for people to have if you’re a Government bent on running things. I’ll bet the IRS is their first option, and since we don’t have the money to withstand a hostile IRS audit, they would succeed in closing down our print issue. But self-reliance, like freedom, is an idea, and you just can’t kill good ideas. The internet is here to take up the slack of a shuttered paper magazine, and I and many who read this magazine will continue to spread the ideas of self-reliance and freedom via blogs, websites, forums, and other formats.

Keep in mind that a future dictatorial government is not just dealing with BHM and its people, or even its generation. I’ve been talking to my daughter’’s generation, and they value government even less than my generation. They are not going to fall for any “we’ll take care of you” Government propaganda. My daughter’s generation has grown up watching incompetent Government squander her generation’s future opportunities, bankrupt social security, then bail out banks and rich investors with money her generation is expected to pay back. My daughter’s generation sees it, understands it, and is totally pissed about it. I’m not sure what they will do, but I am certain they will not stand for it. They will refuse to be the bill-payer for previous generations’ ponzi schemes. I think they are revolutionaries by necessity.

]]> By: Luke Gooch http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/BehindTheScenes/2009/05/06/another-bankrupt-distributor-affects-bhm-but-we-are-ready-for-these-scoundrels/comment-page-1/#comment-2346 Luke Gooch Sun, 10 May 2009 07:24:07 +0000 http://www.backwoodshome.com/blogs/DaveDuffy/?p=920#comment-2346 As Obama maneuvers to take control of so many industies-auto, banking- and is eyeing several means for silencing talk radio, one wonders how he might go about squashing those such as yourself. Musollini's ideas of totalitarianism, which are the blueprint for what Obama is doing, do not include a self-reliant populace. By definition, self-reliance removed those practicing from the body politic in a society based on individual need for government daily micro-supervision by the government. I would be interested in knowing your thoughts on this. As Obama maneuvers to take control of so many industies-auto, banking- and is eyeing several means for silencing talk radio, one wonders how he might go about squashing those such as yourself. Musollini’s ideas of totalitarianism, which are the blueprint for what Obama is doing, do not include a self-reliant populace. By definition, self-reliance removed those practicing from the body politic in a society based on individual need for government daily micro-supervision by the government. I would be interested in knowing your thoughts on this.

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