| The soul food cookbook of today is going high tech | | | | publishing world without experiencing the mountain of |
| fast. More and more continue to go from paper and | | | | potential rejection slips from traditional publishers. With |
| ink to electronic. With the rising cost of manufacturing | | | | budget tightening, many of the big publishers have |
| books the traditional way, due the high cost of labor, | | | | limited resources to help new and upcoming recipe |
| paper, ink and shipping, more soul food recipe | | | | authors anyway. So, this new trend is a help to even |
| publishers are moving toward publishing their content | | | | big name publishers as well as the smaller ones. This |
| electronically. Known in the industry as eBooks, many | | | | eBook publishing trend can save traditional publishers |
| predict they will change the publishing industry. | | | | the time of having to review mountains of books from |
| Many have said they're already changing the industry | | | | potential authors and agents. |
| by allowing more authors to self-publish their own | | | | But most of all this new soul food cookbook trend will |
| books and bypass traditional publishing channels. "Now | | | | benefit the end user by giving them a wider selection |
| recipe authors can get their creations in front of their | | | | of books to choose from. In addition they'll have the |
| target market quicker and with less red tape and | | | | convenience of getting them instantly downloaded to |
| drama. Plus, they can do it for less money than if they | | | | their computer instead of paying shipping cost or |
| had to go through the normal publishing grindstone, | | | | having to drive to a bookstore and purchase before |
| "claims one recipe book self-publisher from Miami, | | | | enjoying it. This new eBook trend appears to be a |
| Florida. | | | | win-win situation for everyone. I'll continue to keep you |
| Soul food cookbook authors and other southern food | | | | informed of this new and changing publishing trend. |
| recipe authors can enjoy trying their hand at the | | | | Stay tuned! |