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Review
Whether
you are using the Internet as a means of publishing your work or as an aid
to your research, this book gives practical, thoughtful and in-depth advice
on how the Internet can be of use to you as a writer. It explores how to:
- extend the use of email
- join writers' circles and reading groups
- locate agents, editors, translators or publishers
- find books and bibliographical references
- exploit electronic writing as a new art form
- evaluate new publishing opportunities
- resource creative writing courses
A unique listings section of 1000 websites for writers is in the book and online.
Buy it at: Amazon.co.uk, price £7.99.
Contents List
- INTRODUCTION
- Only connect
- ---Why go online?
- ---The worries
- This isn't a recipe book
- This is a cookbook
- Why isn't this book online?
- GETTING CONNECTED
- Can writers ignore the
- Internet?
- What is the Internet?
- ---Main areas
- ---Digital form
- The equipment
- ---Modem
- ---Fax
- Telephone networks
- The service provider
- ---How free is free?
- Email abroad
- Email software
- Browsers
- ---Browsing
- ---Page
- ---Document
- Going online without owning a computer
- Writing phone calls
- ---Advantages
- ---Disadvantages
- Talking email
- Is email secure?
- Plain text
- Parcel posting: attachment
- files
- Submitting work to publishers
- Back to paper
- Co-authorship
- ---Traditional collaboration
- ---Multi-authoring
- Junk mail
- Cold calling
- Interviewing by email
- ---Advantages
- ---Techniques
- Email - a new art form?
- THE WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)
- Hyperlinking
- How to surf the web
- Web research
- Search engines
- ---What are they?
- ---How to search
- ---Which engine?
- ---Personal disk search
- Bookmarking
- Cookies: identifying the user
- When it all goes wrong
- ---Error messages
- ---Crashes
- Delivery as downloading
- Publishing as uploading
- Cluttering the hard disk:
- storage and caching
- Plug-ins: the extra bits
- ---Document exchange - the Acrobat Reader
- ---Sound on the Net - RealAudio, LiquidAudio
- ---Moving images - Quicktime
- ---Animations - Shockwave and Flash
- Advertising
- Viruses: assessing the threat
- VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES
- Forums: unmoderated and
- moderated
- ---FAQs
- ---Specialist subjects
- Writers' circles
- ---WRITE and REWRITE
- ---The Writing Workshop
- ---Online Writing Community
- ---The Hitchhiker's Guide To The
- Galaxy
- Newsletters
- ---Mailing lists
- Internet Chat
- Internet conferencing
- Writer's block
- ---Help online
- ELECTRONIC IMPRINTS
- Internet-only imprints
- E-books
- ---Content
- ---Text sites
- E-readers
- ---Everybook Inc
- ---Franklin Bookman
- ---Gembook
- ---Knowledge Station
- ---Millennium E-Reader e-book
- ---Qubit
- ---Rocket e-book
- ---Softbook
- ---Personal digital organisers
- ---Handy 21
- E-ink and e-paper
- Is CD-ROM dead?
- E-zines
- ---Newsletters
- E-journals
- E-newspapers
- Electronic publication
- CyberRight
- ---Contracts
- ---Books
- ---Articles
- ---Academic journals
- Electronic editors
- NEW WRITING OPPORTUNITIES
- Interactivity
- What is hypertext?
- Interactive fiction
- Interactive poetry
- Interactive broadcasting and TV
- Interactive non-fiction
- ---Multimedia
- ---Animation
- ---Information chunks
- Creativity in a new environment
- ---Writing tools
- ---Tools and style
- Writer-in-residence on the
- Internet
- INTERNET PUBLISHING PRACTICALITIES
- Self-promotion
- Web space
- Writing web pages
- ---Planning
- ---Structuring
- ---Navigation
- ---Coding
- Writing style for screen reading
- ---Aesthetics and screens
- ---Readability
- ---Writing style
- ---Longer texts on web pages
- Writing for digital publication
- ---Commercial
- ---Scholarly
- ---Democrazine
- Publishing your work on the web
- ---Putting your work online
- ---Selling your own work online
- ---On-demand / out-of-print
- ---Security Encryption
- ---Electronic cash systems
- Economic imperatives
- ---Sales models
- Metadata
- Maintenance
- ISSUES IN AN ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
- Writers and ownership
- ---Copyright
- ---Electrocopying
- ---Fair dealing
- ---The 'free' ethic
- ---Plagiarism and manipulation
- Societies for writers
- Our deconstruction democracy
- Censorship
- English access
- Health hazards
- ---Ergonomics
- ---Eye strain
- ---Repetitive Strain Injury
- And the future
- Part 2
- INTERNET ADDRESSES
- The book's website
- Look before you dial
- ---Interpreting the URL
- ---Checklist of questions
- Acknowledgements
- INDEX
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