The search for a given title acquires a sporting aspect, while to read the work itself requires an uncontemporary dedication which can only be produced from behind a battery of answering machines, faxes, and disconnected doorbells. Once the designer book discards style, subject, author, and the market, it acquires the brilliance of the prodigious. The computer network liberates writers from their publishers. Unencumbered by reputation or oeuvre, the eager author can hurl one book after another directly onto the 'Net. Should your masterpiece be wiped off the newsgroups in ten days, you can park it on your personal homepage, FTP-site or BBS for the benefit of the virtual community.
Writers can save their books from certain destruction on the paper market.
The only thing that matters to the collection of connected files are the tags. Electronic writers receive a daily, comprehensive literary update, and this has its consequences. The quality of world literature is on the rise. If you can follow the writing activities of renowned authors, the question of how they do it is quickly answered. It's a dizzying thought that earlier generations wrote their books with ineradicable ink.