Alice Korach - Ex-Editor of Bead & Button

I had no idea she was EX editor. Hmmmm

Interesting stuff!

KarenK

Yep.. The last issue was 100% no Alice. There was a totaly new layout. Sad.. I like it better the old way.

Nicole

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Black Cat Beads" :

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She left a couple of issues ago. Still is publisher, though. Can someone repost this original? I never saw the "interesting stuff". ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

leaving Bead & Button, but would still be in charge of the publication division, the beading books they put out. Bead & Button was bought several years ago by Kalmbach Publishing, they publish a lot of hobby type magazines, including "Model Railroader", they have the reputation of putting their own people in charge.

Patti

Me too. The new layout looks too jumbled to me..the old one was a lot tidier and easier to read, in my opinion.

-Amber.

I have to tottaly agree too. While there have always been a lot of ads (I dont' mind the ads) there seem to be more and I think it is due to the layout. An article that would take 2 pages, is spread over 3 or 4 1/2 pages with the ads at the bottom. I thought that looked awful. ERRRR Nothing stays the same.

Lara

Actually she didnt leave a few issues ago... This past issue was the first one without Alice being there..

Nicole

Here is the original Link I posted.

On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 22:21:25 -0400, Black Cat Beads wrote (in message ):

Lovely stuff, I would love to give it a whirl someday. I have no illusions that my pieces would look anything like Alice's, as my sculpture style is very different. But I bet they'd be fun!

Kathy N-V

I agree. And there is more and more advertising with every issue - something that kind of bugs me.

I've noticed some magazines do that when they change hands... the new owner wants more profit, so they increase the ads-to-content ratio, figuring readers won't notice. Then, SURPRISE! Readers notice! Changing the format and increasing ads at the same time is the toll of doom. Either they mend their ways or it becomes the beginning of a long decline.

They have some serious competition right now, with Beadwork really putting out an increasingly nice publication. I had been thinking of Beadwork as Bead & Button's nerdy little sister, sort of the way I once considered Bead and Button to be Ornament's nerdy little sister, but things are really changing. (Nerdy little sister grows up and turns into a knockout with a PhD!)

-Kalera

I haven't decided what I think about the layout but Alice told some really wrong things over the years like that all you have to do is change a design 10% and it's yours! I am pretty much glad she is not running the mag anymore. Not a fan of B&B anyway since they put the articles up for sale on the web site and don't give the authors a dime of that $$.

Pamy Pamela Welborn Beading Design Creation and Instruction Buy My Kits -

That sucks. It must be in the authors' contracts to allow it though. Until ALL authors stand up and refuse to give away their web rights for free, this will continue. The problem is that too many folks are so eager to get published that they will not only give rights away, they will work for a pittance. Or worse.

Just MHO :-)

Tink Check here for available work:

I also wanted to mention that the Author's Registry has been fighting to secure payment for web usage of works for a long time now. Many agents/agencies are already signed on to the program, including the one that represents me. Makes life much easier.

Tink Check here for available work:

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Tinkster :

]I also wanted to mention that the Author's Registry has been fighting ]to secure payment for web usage of works for a long time now. Many ]agents/agencies are already signed on to the program, including the ]one that represents me. Makes life much easier.

way to go, Tink!

no - it's not in MY contract. I did the piece for them BEFORE they had that on the site. They claim that their ability to re-publish it in a compilation covers that. I have legal grounds to fight them but who has the $$ to take on a major publishing company.

Pamy Pamela Welborn Beading Design Creation and Instruction Buy My Kits -

Check here for available work:

yeah..I'm really liking the projects that Beadwork has been doing lately. The issue with the chain maille miser's purse and all of the egyptian themed pieces was right up my alley. I've been buying Beadwork more than I've been buying B&B..so much so that I just went ahead and got a subscription to Beadwork, while I only buy B&B when they have a few projects that interest me.

The ads in B&B get to me, too. With them bordering the pages that the projects are on, it makes things look far too jumbled. When I'm trying to figure out a project, I don't want to be distracted by 50 little ads cluttering up the pages and forcing the text to be spread over four pages or squeezed up into teeny columns.

-Amber.