Paperless Publishing

Library Journal

British journalist Haynes (Portable Computing, LJ 1/91) adds to the proliferation of electronic publishing books with this entry. Dedicated to "librarians everywhere as they face the challenges and opportunities of a New Age of publishing," this breezy work maintains that new technological developments empower everybody to publish. However, despite its claim to be "a complete turnkey package to publish" electronically, this book serves more as a cheerleader and sporadic guide for potential publishers. The inclusion of an occasional address or software package title gives the illusion of a helpful resource manual, but closer reading reveals superficial paragraphs on a number of loosely connected topics clumped under one of 17 chapter headings. Although it was not available for review, a DOS-and Windows-compatible disk of shareware will be included with the text. A marginal purchase.-Cathy Sabol, Northern Virginia Community Coll., Manassas