Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk Subject: Re: selective reading Message-ID: <1990Nov17.074924.8825@looking.on.ca> Date: 17 Nov 90 07:49:24 GMT References: Distribution: comp.org.eff.talk Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 14 This is possible to do, and I even considered implementing it for a time, but is it all that new? The current publishing industry works that way, but for a more select crowd. The budding writers all submit their stories everywhere hoping for a sale. People read the magazines whose editorial style they like. The editors get paid. To be honest, as somebody who has been vaguely like the sort of editor you suggest (without competition) I am not sure how many people would do it as a hobby for any length of time. It can get trying at times. (Particularly when you have to put up with attack as well as the task at hand.) -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473