Electronic and Online Publishing by Jack Schofield Computerized publishing Most publishing is now 'electronic' in the sense that books, magazines, and newspapers are prepared on computers, and exist as computer files before they are printed on paper. Today, writers and journalists usually create their texts on computers using word processing programs, but if not, typewritten copy is easily scanned to convert it into electronic form. Print publications have lots of advantages. On the other hand, print has its drawbacks.
Paper is expensive, and articles are often cut to fit the space available.
Printing and distributing paper is expensive and takes time. Printed materials are expensive to store and almost impossible to search. Electronic publishing offers solutions to all these problems. Publishing on line Suppose a publisher makes the electronic copy of a newspaper or magazine available online, perhaps on the Internet's World Wide Web. No paper is used and disc space is cheap, so online publishing costs very little.