Re: Publishers on the Net??

Article View: misc.writing

Article #1080

#1080

From: Dick Smith
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 08:34

27 lines
1646 bytes

>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.

-- 
Dick Smith				dick@smith.chi.il.us

Technical Details

Message-ID: <871@smith.CHI.IL.US>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!laidbak!tellab5!vpnet!smith!dick

References: <1992Dec11.224020.24608@cs.sfu.ca> <1992Dec21.060605.15671@cronkite.ocis.temple.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!mcdchg!laidbak!tellab5!vpnet!smith!dick
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
Lines: 27

Reply to Parent Message