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even paper
The way it's becoming so popular to submit a MS to a paper publisher, particularly to magazines etc. over the net, the use of the net is right there in the middle of the process. Also, making your own covers and interior graphics and artwork using scanners and digital cameras means submitting them over the net. Doing research is mostly over the net for fiction works, and a heck of a lot of non-fiction.
There's very little in publishing that doesn't use the net anymore. Writers like me, who knew zilch about computers a very short time ago, need all the help we can get. I can use simple logic to handle a big part of it, such as transposing twenty some-odd books written on an Atari to PC format (which will entail an interface program and a special reader, or it's IMPOSSIBLE. Yeah, right!) and developing the method to make covers, but there's a lot more that I have no understanding of whatever. It's great to have a place where you can go to get answers that don't give you a big string of letters that have no meaning to you, then the explainer says, "See? Very simple!"
I generally reply something like, "Oh, certainly! It's like using a minor chord counterpoint cacaphony on the downbeat with a declension into a thirteenth chord transpositional insertion when you're doing the number in seventeen thirty-seconds! How stupid of me not to see it from the first!"
99% of the time, they understand that the way I understand their explanation. If they say, "Go to your Start menu, bring up programs, and click on install/deinstall, then follow the prompts." I understand it. "I could have said "Put in an e-13th before the chorus and go to D" to a beginner.
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