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- From: dick@smith.CHI.IL.US (Dick Smith)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Publishers on the Net??
- Message-ID: <871@smith.CHI.IL.US>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 08:34:29 GMT
- References: <1992Dec11.224020.24608@cs.sfu.ca> <1992Dec21.060605.15671@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>
- Reply-To: dick@smith.CHI.IL.US (Dick Smith)
- Organization: R. H. E. Smith Corp., Wheeling, IL
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- >Barry Shell (shell@cs.sfu.ca) wrote:
- >: Does anyone know if the big New York publishing houses are on
- >: the Internet? Like Simon and Shuster, HarperCollins, Houghton Mifflin,
- >: Bantam Doubleday Dell, Penguin USA, Random House, etc.
- >
-
- fishbone@astro.ocis.temple.edu (Greg Fishbone) writes:
- >Houghton is not on Internet, but they have their own DECnet system....
-
- It's hard enough for cutting-edge high-tech businesses to justify net
- access, much less a publishing house. I doubt if there are any with
- corporate connections to the Internet. I can't imagine why they'd want
- them!
-
- There is at least one Tor editor with an account on a public access unix
- system in NYC who occasionally posts to some newsgroups. I don't know
- if he's lurking in this one (I haven't noticed him posting, but I kill a
- lot!). Are you out there, Patrick? There may be a few others scattered
- around.
-
- I doubt if ANY of them want to try to initiate business by email but
- I'm prepared to be proven wrong. I suspect that if they're using
- email for business at all, it is to communicate with their established
- authors.
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- Dick Smith dick@smith.chi.il.us
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