The Electronic Books mailing list is moving to the Internet
From: jane.carter@[removed].com
Date: 25 Sep 1991
The Electronic Books mailing list is moving to the Internet.
The list has operated for some time on our previous system. A website has been established to provide subscription information, the list charter, and an archive of selected messages.
The site is at electronic-books-online
To subscribe, send mail to listserv@[removed].com with the single line “subscribe eb your full name”.
The purpose of the list remains professional discussion of electronic books, including production methods, distribution, standards, and related library and publishing issues.
Administrative questions should be sent to listowner@[removed].com.
From: mike.rivera@[removed].net
Date: 12 Oct 1991
Thanks for the notice, Jane. I've been on this list since the BITNET days. Good to see it moving forward.
From: jane.carter@[removed].com
Date: 10 Mar 1992
Website update.
The Electronic Books site has been available since September. It now includes the subscription instructions, guidelines, and an index to earlier messages that have been moved over.
Current subscriber count is approximately 175. Most activity continues to come from academic and publishing addresses.
The address is unchanged: electronic-books-online
From: sarah.kim@[removed].org
Date: 22 Nov 1992
We have been running a small test delivering a few backlist titles on disk to institutional subscribers. Setup took longer than expected, mainly around file naming and handling of accented characters.
If anyone has practical notes on formats or delivery methods that have worked for them with library systems, I would be interested to see them.
S. Kim
Indie Books
From: david.chen@[removed].edu
Date: 05 Jul 1993
I found the Electronic Books site listed in a directory of networked resources last month.
I am not in publishing but work with library automation at the university level. The site still appears to be up. I am interested in any information on non-academic projects that may have been discussed on the list.
D. Chen