Book People Archive

Internet-on-a-Disk #19, February 1997, now available



The latest issue of Internet-on-a-Disk, the newsletter of electronic texts
and Internet trends, is now available at 
http://www.samizdat.com/news19.html  
Attached is the table of contents.

This issue is large (over 135 Kbytes -- about twice the size of the last issue).
Please send us email if you would like to receive your free copy by 
email (sent in three parts).  

Best wishes.

Richard Seltzer
seltzer@[redacted]

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***PART ONE -- 38 Kbytes

WHAT'S NEW --  (etexts available on the Internet):  B&R Samizdat
Express, The Gutenberg Project, The Bartleby Project, Bibliomania,
Theology on the Web, The Tech Archive, Philosophers (The U. of
Idaho), The Electronic Text Center at the University of Virginia,
The Tolstoy Library, the Jules Verne Collection,  The Screenwriters 
Utopian Home Page, Wordman Production Company,
Macmillan Computer Publishing Online Books, Chalidze Publications,
The Online Medieval and Classical Library, The Virtual Bookshelf,
Book People

PLEASE COPY THIS DISK

WEB NOTES -- The Changing Face of Technology, Electronic
Recruiting News, Mapping Your Future, CollegeBound.NET,
Contact Center Network, Terra Chess, Live Computer Help,
Lawguru.com, VersusLaw, Web Consultants Association,
IBM Patent Server

CURIOUS NON-USE OF TECHNOLOGY -- Telephone over the 
Internet, Internet Fast Forward

CURIOUS TECHNOLOGY -- Firefly, Site Watch, internet-now,
Broadcaster, NewsMonger, LookSmart, Filez, Coola

CURIOUS BUSINESS MODELS -- Millenium Interactive

RESOURCES FOR THE DISABLED -- "Guidelines for Reporting 
and Writing about People with Disabilities", In Touch Network

OTHER EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES -- Live from Antarctica 2,
WebCT, Index of Resources for Historians, Al Bodzin's Home Page

REVIEWS OF INTERNET BOOKS -- 24 Hours in Cyberspace

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***PART TWO -- 42 Kbytes

FEATURES:
How to Make "Business Chat" Work by Richard Seltzer
People with Disabilities Can't Access the Web! by Mike Paciello

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***PART THREE -- 68 Kbytes

LETTERS TO & RESPONSES FROM THE EDITOR
-- The Internet and Democracy
-- Gaia
-- The Future of Books?
-- Limitations and Advantages of Intranet
-- How to Get Paid for Electronic Texts?
-- Copyright Question
-- Love that Non-Graphics Look
-- Note from a Fan
-- Email Reminders for Internet-on-a-Disk
-- Resource for Internet Courses
-- Importance of Text/Content
-- Need Data on China
-- Web Page Authoring
-- Web-Access for the Blind: Wal-Mart Example
-- "Flypaper" Revisited -- Especially for Recruiting
-- More Thoughts on "Flypaper"
-- How to Submit Articles for Internet-on-a-Disk?
-- Romania
-- More Romania
-- From Granddaughter of Author
-- Looking for Cool Sites
-- Text Books on Disk?
-- How Fast Do You Read?
-- Virtual Servers in Brazil
-- Low Tech Web Page Design
-- Note from Author Bill Ransom re: his novels
-- Screenwriting
-- Need for Local Search Capability
-- Maintaining Large Email Lists, Without Losing the Personal Touch
-- Advice on Maintaining Email Lists?
-- Requests for Permission to Reprint
-- Advice on Starting a Business with 5 Mbytes of Web Space?
-- What do the Number (in the Book List) Mean?
-- Subscriber in Brunei
-- New On-Line Magazine in Slovakia
-- Halloween
-- Case-Sensitivity in Email Addresses
-- Giant's Shoulders
-- Software to Read Electronic Texts