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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Belen" data-source="post: 3822929" data-attributes="member: 1405">One thing that the current Dragon proves is that they seriously need a professional publisher/editor.  An online only dragon should have its own website with dynamic content.  A daily blog/news section, a daily letters to the editors/reply section, articles with built-in article commentary, and tools to use the content and help promote it to your base: e-mail it to a friend, article recommendation, PDF archives of the last year of Dragon etc.Instead, they are offering articles that serve as web enhancements and calling it Dragon magazine.  They have known for a year or more that Dragon was going to be canceled, so they had the time to offer something good right out of the gate; however, like most print publishers, they do not understand online publishing.  They like to talk about Web 2.0 etc, but they are starting out having to play catch up.  It is a horrible position for them to place themselves in and they only further alienate the existing magazine fanbase proving that they cannot replace Paizo.Wizards seriously needs a Director of Online Publishing or a Publisher who has worked in publishing to manage their editorial team.  It would be best if they found someone outside of their industry who could bring something new to the table.Hell, it is what I do for a living, so I see how much of a joke their efforts are when I look at my own publications.</blockquote>