"Ready-made searches" will be a hit in the
future, as the number of sites grows)
* A dictionary of professional terms, a speller and a
thesaurus
* A list of general reference sites
* Shareware specific to the field
7. Publishing
The Internet is the world's largest "publisher", by far. It
"publishes" FAQs (Frequent Answers and Questions regarding
almost every technical matter in the world), e-zines
(electronic versions of magazines, not a very profitable
pursuit), the electronic versions of dailies (together with
on-line news and information services), reference and other e-
books, monographs, articles and minutes of discussions
("threads"), among other types of material.
Publishing an e-zine has a few advantages: it promotes the
sales of the printed edition, it helps to sign on subscribers
and it leads to the sale of advertising space. The electronic
archive function (see next section) saves the need to file
back issues, the space required to do so and the irritating
search for data items.
The future trend is a combined subscription: electronic
(mainly for the archival value and the ability to hyperlink to
additional information) and printed (easier to browse current
issue).
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