Paperless Publishing [Paperback]

Colin Haynes (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1994

This timely book is the only guide that gives writers all the practical advice and hard-to-find information they need to fully exploit the enormous potential of electronic publishing. Readers will learn how to publish straight from their personal computers at minimal cost, and begin reaping monetary reward, while seeing their work reach a potentially global audience. The book and bundled disk make up a powerful package writers can use to create, professional-looking title screens, contents lists, chapters, indexes, and other features; add graphics to their publications; use sound, animation and other multimedia features to enhance their works; effectively market and package their work; and publish their work on CD-ROMS, floppy disks, over networks, or by modem.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

British journalist Haynes (Portable Computing, LJ 1/91) adds to the proliferation of electronic publishing books with this entry. Dedicated to "librarians everywhere as they face the challenges and opportunities of a New Age of publishing," this breezy work maintains that new technological developments empower everybody to publish. However, despite its claim to be "a complete turnkey package to publish" electronically, this book serves more as a cheerleader and sporadic guide for potential publishers. The inclusion of an occasional address or software package title gives the illusion of a helpful resource manual, but closer reading reveals superficial paragraphs on a number of loosely connected topics clumped under one of 17 chapter headings. Although it was not available for review, a DOS-and Windows-compatible disk of shareware will be included with the text. A marginal purchase.
Cathy Sabol, Northern Virginia Community Coll., Manassas
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Clip art, page composition, graphics: if you can imagine it, chances are someone can sell you a package to make it happen on your pc, desk, or table. But what does one do with one's precious output once it's put out? Haynes answers this and other questions in this "first book to provide all writers with a complete turn-key package to publish over the information highways." Haynes doesn't so much want to tell readers how to create masterpieces in the privacy of their own homes as how to get said masterpieces disseminated and how to protect their intellectual property in the information marketplace. Enthusiastic and upbeat throughout, Haynes offers advice and instruction in the creative and economic phases of the information superhighway environment. Packed with useful advice, this book also features an appendix of up-to-date information on currently available programs. Of course it won't be up-to-date for long, which, as Haynes would be sure to point out, is the big disadvantage with hard-copy publishing. Mike Tribby

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Windcrest; Pap/Dis edition (September 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 007911895X
• ISBN-13: 978-0079118950
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,230,447 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Outdated but the principles remain valuable!, January 12, 2004

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Travis C. Ward "C. William Anderson" (Silverton, OR United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Paperless Publishing (Paperback)

The version I have is from 1994. That was a time when...

Still, even though I found no use for the diskette of software, I did find this to be a terrific source of information on the principles of internet publishing.

When you are looking for a way to profit from your time connected to the web it is logical to consider eMagazine publishing. Perhaps there is no better use for the web!

Well, before you pursue that dream, find a copy of this book, as well as B. Ann Bell's eBook How Not To Start A Magazine; subscribe to LJ's Breaking Free$, and purchase through Amazon or any good bookseller the following books: STARTING A MAGAZINE; STARTING & RUNNING A SUCCESSFUL NEWSLETTER OR MAGAZINE; and PUBLISHING YOUR OWN MAGAZINE, GUIDEBOOK, OR WEEKLY NEWSPAPER - Bill Anderson (LJ).