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- RECOMMENDED READING LIST FOR SHAREWARE USERS AND AUTHORS
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- Shareware Magazine. Published by PC-SIG, 1030-D East Duane
- Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94086. Voice telephone: 408/730-9291 FAX:
- 408/730-2107. Included with membership in PC-SIG, one of the
- largest shareware disk distributors in the world. A bimonthly,
- "light and lively" guide to the shareware market featuring
- reviews and articles on the best and latest in shareware, author
- interviews and discussion and analysis of trends in the
- industry.
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- Dr. File Finder's Guide to Shareware by Michael Callahan and
- Nick Anis. ISBN: 0-07-881646-7. A book and disk package teaching
- you how to find and use the best in shareware. Learn about disk
- vendors, computer club sources, details about the very best
- shareware in 20 categories. Disk includes such popular programs
- as Qmodem, Dos line editor, Anarkey, BackMail and more. Two
- additional disks available upon submission of a postcard
- contained in the book.
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- Writing & Marketing Shareware. A book, disk and companion
- cassette tape by Steve Hudgik, HomeCraft, P.O. Box 974,
- Tualatin, OR 97062. Tel 503/692-3732. The best book in the
- industry for learning about programming, designing and MARKETING
- shareware for maximum financial return. Shows you how to become a
- successful shareware author who develops WINNING shareware for
- maximum income. Includes mailing list of distributors, equipment
- suppliers, service providers, how to design your shareware and
- more! Combined with the software program SMS in the next
- paragraph, you have a complete reference set on becoming a
- financially successful shareware author.
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- $hareware Marketing $ystem. Two disk set containing tutorials
- and quarterly marketing newsletter for shareware authors plus
- dBase format mailing list on disk of over 3,000 addresses for
- industry contacts: computer clubs, disk vendors, magazine
- writers and more who use, distribute or review shareware. The
- mailing list on disk is ready to import into many database
- packages so you can print mailing labels for your disk mailers!
- By Jim Hood, the author of THIS tutorial you are now reading.
- $25 registration or $90 to subscribe to 4 quarterly issues.
- Also available as an inexpensive evaluation disk set from most
- shareware disk vendors, computer clubs and BBS systems, as with
- all shareware. POB 1506, Mercer Island, WA 98040. 206/236-0470.
- Known among shareware authors simply as "SMS."
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- Alfred Glossbrenner's Master Guide to Free Software and
- Shareware, c/o FireCrystal Communications, 699 River Rd,
- Yardley, PA 19067. Alfred writes one of the largest and most
- respected guides to shareware in the industry and is a
- contributing editor to several computer industry magazines.
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- Tips and Techniques for Using Low-Cost and Public Domain
- Software. John Gliedman. 1988. McGraw-Hill. A thorough guide to
- low cost, effective shareware and public domain programs
- including RAM disks, word processors, batch file systems, hard
- disk managers, tutorials and other topics.
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- PC-LEARN is a computer tutorial system for computer beginners
- which features high speed color or monochrome menus, tutorial
- printing on your printer, information searching capabilities
- and much more! PC-LEARN is a training system which includes
- chapters on buying and using a computer, an entertaining history
- of computers, DOS lessons, hard disk drives and tech tips. It
- also includes information on word processing, a suggested reading
- list, software selection, computer clubs, batch files, spreadsheets,
- databases, and even a glossary! PC-LEARN runs on all IBM compatible
- PC-LEARN is shareware. This tutorial was extracted from PC-LEARN.
- Submitting $10 to the author of PC-LEARN whose address
- information accompanies this package brings an UNREGISTERED
- evaluation copy of PC-LEARN. Submitting the full $25
- registration fee brings TWO BONUS DISKS and A FULLY REGISTERED
- COPY OF PC-LEARN.
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