Writing and Publishing with Your PC: The Ultimate Reference for Personal Computer-Based Writing, Illustrating, Desktop Publishing, Publisher Relations, and Book Marketing and Distribution
Stultz
1998
Submitter: Writing and publishing with your computer is a topic that many people are interested in, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say that products and software have changed a bit since 1998. Some of the people who might be checking the book out to jump start a self-publishing career were probably not even born when this book was written. The many options available to self-publishers today were still only a gleam on the horizon twenty years ago. Our patrons deserve better.
Holly: Good grief – this book shows Microsoft Publisher ’97! I’m not even sure what version of Adobe Photoshop they’re using. Moses there on the cover is scratching his head in befuddlement too. Useless.
I haven’t even heard the term “desktop publishing” in quite a few years now.
No, I think they call it ‘self-publishing’, now.”
I remember seeing a book on Desktop Publishing that made a point of stretching and squashing headline type to fit. The words “funhouse mirror” came irresistibly to mind…