[12637] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Interactive Publishing Alert -- June Issue Now Available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rosalind Resnick)
Wed May 25 01:10:06 1994
Reply-To: rosalind@harrison.win.net (Rosalind Resnick)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Date: Tue, 24 May 1994 18:10:17
From: rosalind@harrison.win.net (Rosalind Resnick)
The June issue of Interactive Publishing Alert devotes extensive
coverage to the trend toward non-U.S. newspapers and magazines going
online to expand their foreign readership in a cost-effective way. By
going online, publishers can slash the overseas shipping costs and
weeks-long lag times now required to deliver print editions to
foreign subscribers via postal mail. For publishers in developing
nations, electronic publishing can also be a low-cost way of
reaching key decision-makers in industrialized nations -- a means
not only of selling subscriptions but of marketing ideas.
Highlights of the issue include:
* A profile of the new e-mail edition of South Africa's Weekly Mail
& Guardian
* Detailed descriptions of electronic publishing ventures in Latin
America, Britain and Sweden
* An interview with Marc Andreessen, co-developer of the popular
Mosaic interface that's generating widespread interest as an
Internet publishing tool
"Due to certain obscure facets of Mosaic's origin, it got roped into
being a poster boy for SGML and the whole semantic markup versus
presentation debate, a position it didn't need to be in and
shouldn't have been put in," Andreessen told Interactive Publishing
Alert Editor Rosalind Resnick. "All I can say is 'oops'. Mosaic is,
at its best, an end-user information presentation system; that's
the source of its popularity, that's what the vast majority of both
users and publishers want to use it as, and that's definitely where
we're aiming the next-generation version."
Subscriptions to International Publishing Alert cost $149 for 12
monthly issues. For more information, contact Rosalind Resnick,
editor and publisher of Interactive Publishing Alert, via e-mail at
rosalind@harrison.win.net or by phone at 305-920-5326.
