But it didn't solve the main and the perennial problem of poetry publishing. This is the cost and difficulty of distribution. You can solve all the other problems, but that one is intractable. Or it was, until the Internet. Sappho, Callimachus, Catullus, Li Bai and John Donne all had small audiences for their poetry, and any serious poetry faces the same situation today - it's not a profitable market anywhere in the world.
Bookshops can only afford to stock popular verse.
Canadian bookshops can't afford to stock New Zealand poetry, and vice versa. In effect, the purchaser does the work of accessing the material and paying for its delivery. Here's an example of the reach of the Internet. In the first issue of Jacket , I published an interview I had recorded with the British poet Roy Fisher, and received an enthusiastic e-mail from a fan. Video and stereo sound are still difficult to send or receive on the Internet because they need a lot of bandwidth, and the telephone lines the Internet uses don't have much bandwidth.