- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd; 3 edition (28 Jan 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071365192X
- ISBN-13: 978-0713651928
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,182,225 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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No writer can afford to ignore the Internet and its multifarious offerings. It's just like visiting the library, albeit the largest one in the world, as Jane Dorner shows in her clear, jargon-free The Internet: A Writer's Guide. She assumes that you can switch on the computer and operate a mouse because "Books on writing do not generally tell you how to hold the pen, nor do they describe it" and this, specifically, is a book which will help you "to explore what the Internet can do for you as a writer".
Dorner takes you through "written phone calls" (e-mail), including how to use it to submit work to publishers, conduct interviews and write collaboratively. As well as providing sections on virtual communities, electronic imprints, new writing opportunities and internet publishing possibilities, she also offers sensible advice about retrieving from the World Wide Web the sort of information you, as a writer, are likely to need. And most useful of all is the comprehensive list of writing-related Web site addresses.
All good teachers are adept at finding familiar avenues through which to explain the unfamiliar and Dorner, with her incisive prose style, is certainly one of them. "The World Wide Web is the nerve centre of the Internet," she writes, and "computer-speak will never be as rich a source of vocabulary as war or religion or sport but it will be interesting to watch developments". How ironic that this immensely detailed but unusually readable book is just that--a book. Bibliophiles can smile: even as the subject matter is rapidly changing technology, we still turn to an artefact for information. --Susan Elkin
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This is a practical and in-depth guide which explains how the Internet can be of use to the writer. The book covers both general issues, such as getting connected, using e-mail and navigating round the world web and writer-specific issues, such as advice on publishing opportunities, research techniques, ownership, privacy and plagiarism.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Most authoritative of its type,
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This review is from: The Internet: A Writer's Guide (Paperback)
This is a very readable and exhaustive coverage of the Internet, from the basics to the latest electronic book hardware. Dorner's background - a long track record of working for big-name print publishers and the Society of Authors - makes her an especially reliable source on how the Internet relates to long-standing publishing issues such as copyright. She is clearly enthusiastic about the Internet, but doesn't over-hype its possibilities; her views are strongly rooted in getting the best for the professional writer. While there are a number of books available on this topic, this is the one I trust to give the most authoritative and realistic picture.
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comprehensive and informative.,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Internet: A Writer's Guide (Paperback)
Although this is the only book I have read on this subject, I find it hard to believe it could be bettered. It is clearly written and authoritative, but has a common-sense approach, making clear that, for all its wonders, the internet won't do the writing for you and is, in the end, only a delivery mechanism. Deals comprehensively with on-line publishing, information gathering, writers groups and many other areas, some of which I only half-understand as yet. The book is written in a friendly and easily-accessible style with some nice quotations from the past and there is plenty of support for the traditional book and indications that the author has read more than a few of them, which is not always the case with writers on computer affairs.
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