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@Article{Reid:EPODD-1-1-55,
  author =       "B. K. Reid",
  title =        "The {USENET} Cookbook\emdash{}an Experiment in
                 Electronic Publishing",
  journal =      j-EPODD,
  volume =       "1",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "55--76",
  month =        apr,
  year =         "1988",
  CODEN =        "EPODEU",
  ISSN =         "0894-3982",
  bibsource =    "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/epodd.bib",
  abstract =     "Much of the research taking place in the field called
                 `electronic publishing' would perhaps be better called
                 `electronic printing' or `electronic typography' or
                 `electronic drawing' or `electronic file cabinets'. The
                 word `publishing' has traditionally meant `to make
                 generally known' or `to disseminate'. In December 1985
                 I began a venture in true electronic
                 publishing\emdash{}`true' in the sense that its primary
                 goals were to explore electronic dissemination rather
                 than electronic typesetting or formatting. I wanted to
                 start a periodical that could be distributed
                 electronically, that would use computers for every
                 aspect of its production and distribution process, and
                 that would be on a topic of wide enough interest to
                 attract subscribers in as many countries as possible.
                 Furthermore the topic had to be absorbing enough to
                 engage my own interest for long enough to gain
                 substantial experience. The chosen topic was cookery. I
                 began a weekly magazine whose contents are recipes. To
                 submit a recipe for publication, a prospective author
                 mails the recipe to the editor by electronic mail. The
                 publishing process from that point is similar to more
                 ordinary magazines. A copy editor rewrites the recipe
                 for stylistic consistency and then hands it to the
                 `international desk', which checks to make sure that
                 the recipe uses only ingredients that are widely known
                 and internationally available. The international desk
                 also converts recipes to or from metric units, so that
                 every recipe will include both. From the international
                 desk, the recipe goes to a `test and proofreading'
                 office, at which an editor checks to make sure that the
                 recipe is coherent and comprehensible and that the dish
                 it describes is palatable. Finally, recipes are moved
                 to the production office, where they are bundled into
                 issues in time to meet a Thursday publication deadline.
                 During this test period I have done all of the
                 editorial tasks myself, but the internal structure of
                 the publication system is such that different people
                 could do the different tasks without disrupting the
                 flows and procedures. The recipes are distributed in a
                 text formatting language, and each subscriber is sent
                 software to format that language into some output
                 format that he can print on his machine. Subscribers
                 typically extract the recipes out of each weekly issue
                 and put them into a local database, from which they can
                 print pages for a notebook or access the recipes with
                 online retrieval commands. The text formatting language
                 is a dialect of {\em troff}, and the vast majority of
                 subscribers use a special set of {\em troff\/} macros
                 to do the formatting. The publication is called {\em
                 The USENET Cookbook}. It has about 13~000 subscribers
                 worldwide, and has had recipes contributed by about 300
                 different people. Most of the subscribers are in
                 English-speaking countries.",
  keywords =     "Magazine, Automated production, Online publication,
                 Cookbook",
}

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