RARA-AVIS: "Look ma, no ink!" ... Electronic Books

Words from the Monastery (jackechs@erols.com)
Sat, 05 Sep 1998 08:10:03 -0400 "Look ma, no ink!" ... Electronic Books

http://www.salon1999.com/21st/feature/1998/09/cov_02feature.html

Read the above at Salon on electronic books. The article comments on the
expense of hard copy publication is causing less and less authors to be
published and for those who are, the runs are getting shorter. I see
electronic publishing as an opportunity for works that would not normally
be re-released as being released in soft copy format due to the significant
decrease in overhead (I also see the publishing world charging just as much
for soft format as hard though). What do ya'll think of trading in the
pulp for electrons? What if it's the only way to get a work sans visiting
the library?

No, I'm not a marketer or affiliated with the publishing industry in any
manner if someone's worried that I'm doing marketing research for free ...
yeah, I'm paranoid ... actually, I asked on a news group once what
everyone's reading and there were quite a few posts asking why I wanted to
know and exactly what I was going to do with the information.

----
volente Deo,

Anthony
jackechs@erols.com or ICQ #3717510
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4640/

"I'm a sinner, I'm a saint, I do not feel ashamed ..."

Meredith Brooks/Shelly Pelken, Bitch
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