Reviewers will then be able to mark up electronic copies of manuscripts and editors can see all the comments together in a single file. Yet right now this is cutting edge technology that depends on everyone having the same software and easy access to a good Internet connection. Eventually all this will come to pass, and electronic submissions will eventually become the standard. At present, however, we are far from this state. Submitting Works to Electronic Journals.
Electronic journals are still in their infancy.
This number will undoubtedly increase as the number of electronic journals increases, but it is not clear how quickly that number will increase. Electronic journals are much cheaper than their paper counterparts, but currently they bring in no revenues. The interesting material here, of course, lies not in the numbers but in the comments. Again, some redundancies were eliminated. Obviously, had this survey been taken ten years ago, the response would have been almost non-existent.