Ok, thanks for the info, Craig. I'm not on anyone's leash so that kinda paranoia aint necessery.
There are alot of people on the internet that boast their excellence, and I get sceptical of people I never heard of. Clearly you have done a long career on magic, and Im sorry if I offended you in anyway, but I also mentioned that probably it's just my ignorance. I still think its good to be sceptical, especially on the internet. You could be sceptical of me as well, if I had posted this topic, and you wouldnt never heard of me.
You had many good points on your first post on this topic, but I dont agree with all of them. I myself believe in free market, and I believe that people are smart enough to rather buy from the professionals, than 15 year old kids never heard of. Free market will take care of this 95% rubbish e-books.
People in their teens have really different state of mind, the productivity and naive sense of mind are controversial. They even could have some clever ideas, like with Jermay. I think he was 15 when he published "7 Deceptions"? If he wouldnt have the help of you and Knepper, would he ever publish the book if he had read this topic?
Wild Card wrote:Jamesjoystick, maybe you've spent to much time looking for free tutorials on the net and not enough actual time immersed in the magical community. Magic is about entertaining, performing and creating the impossible right in peoples eyes, not having a big fancy website and a picture of yourself holding cards.
Hmm. I dont look for free tutorials. I own pretty decent magic library, and few DVDs aswell. I dont even like to read ebooks at all. I'm soon to be 30 years old, and I might not now everything about magic, but I am very interested on magic's history, and own few books of the subject.
I think my passion, respect and love for magic is far nore serious that most people have. I dont intend to do magic as fulltime-job, it is too dear for that (even if I have done some corporate gigs), but I still think I can talk about the philosophy and theory of magic in general, even with the pros.
What comes to the website-thingey, I am very aware that you dont have to have website to be pro, but I also think that if you really are pro, there would be some information on the web. Not many laymen will know who is Johnny "Ace" Palmer, Lennart Green or Michael Close, but you still get heaps of stuff of them from the google if you do a search.
I didnt mean to offend anyone, and I'm truly sorry if I did that. My first post was just a simple question, nothing more than that. Carry on.