The increasing cost of quality paper, combined with an increasing cost of living, are killing the magazine business as we know it. Enter the Internet. For those of you who have access to the World Wide Web, you have the future of fiction publishing in your hard drive. The secret for those of you with limited knowledge of the Internet, is the World Wide Web. America Online or Compuserve are fine if you like to play on user-friendly amusement parks, but it doesn't lend itself well to what we're trying to do.
Home pages are one of the liberators in our little scheme.
A home page is a spot on the Web that can be accessed by anyone with similar access. This is the home page for The Met , a weeky paper hailing from Dallas. Now, as of this writing, The Met reaches some 50,000 people, with the outlying distribution points stretching to Fort Worth. With MetOnline, however, we look at a theoretical readership of one billion people, and these folks don't have to worry about distribution problems. Anyone with Web access can check us out at any time.