Chicago, A.P., The Web
by Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 1/27/1997
As if it isn't hard enough to keep the copyeditors happy, now e-mail correspondance, homepages and online journalism are getting even more questions about style usage and spelling.
Hardwired, the book publishing imprint of
Wired magazine has just published
Wired Style: The Pricipals of English Usage in the Digital Age ($17.95), edited by Constance Hale. They have also launched a
Wired Style website, that allows the linguistic nitpickers among us to gripe, ask questions of Hale and, most important, to argue endlessly among ourselves over whether
Web Zine or
Webzine is correct. Jennifer Colton,
Hardwired marketing director told
PW the site attracts, "people who own the book and want to talk about it" and the imprint is already collecting their input for a new edition. Colton also noted that the book has generated a "big dialogue, more than a thousand posts," on the Well, San Francisco's digitally savvy online community.
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