The option of sending pdf files is a good one. I know that the Acrobat
software is expensive but there is Mac freeware that does a basic pdf
conversion and I'm sure there's a PC equivalent.
IRCs, if one can get any, are a pain for all concerned.
Best,
Jill
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> The excerpts at the bottom are from two different messages, I know,
> but I just wanted to comment and query here a bit.
>
> First, the comment is that IRC problems cut both ways. IRCs require
> trips to the PO here in the US also, and aren't always and everywhere
> available. Same other problems there too. As a result, I, slothful as
> I am,
> have never sent much material overseas by mail.
>
> The query has to do with what you publishing types think of having
> work submitted via links to webpages, as opposed to email or snailmail
> of whatever variety. If a MS is set up on a webpage, and the potential
> contributor sent a link to it, you could certainly get enough sense of
> the
> nature of the MS to determine whether or not to consider it. And--think
> of it!--no email clogging your inbox, let alone paper piling up on the
> floor by your desk, beneath your transom, etc.
>
> Come on, it's 2003, and we're still submitting and receiving MSS by
> pony express.
>
> Hal "You are at the highest level. There are
> no folders above this one."
> --a Microsoft Nirvana message
> Halvard Johnson
> ===============
> email: [log in to unmask]
> website: http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard
>
> { Then you only get the problem of 'People with MACs' when you use
> a PC.
> { Poems set halfway down a page and inset from the left margin!!
> { A lot of typesetting work if you are doing an 80-page book, just
> deleting
> { the extra white space.
>
> { (The other side of this is that as a "publisher", I wouldn't even
> remotely
> { consider the text of a book sent to me in hard-copy. Well, I'd
> consider the
> { text, but I'd expect to end-up *setting* the text from a digital
> submission.
> { No OCR, no proofing problems, no pack-drill.
>
>
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