On 1999-06-03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <John Oram> said:
>You ever tried living with an author when the book publishers editor
>sends back the manuscript with RED COMMENTS all over it? Or have you
>ever tried living with an author when the book publisher sends back
>a 50,000 manuscript and says "marketing thinks you should shift the
>focus a bit to this way of doing it"...
Not all publishers will necessarily respond in the same way.
>Real world comment on your idea is the fact that the person paying
>for a hired author can specify what is to be said by that author -
>via the editing process if nothing else. Same goes for a software
>developer hiring a programmer to write code.
If what someone has to say or write (doesn't have to be a book, does it?) is
done well enough, he *is* publishing his thoughts, in a sense, on the
Internet, whether it be on a newsgroup or a list, etc.. He doesn't have to
hire a "publisher" or work for one, doesn't need an editor and can interact
directly with his audience. It's a freelance situation and nobody can stop
him on the Internet.
Jerry
Internet Montana
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