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- WRITER'S DREAM
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- Version 4.20
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- Copyright 1991, 1993 Jeff Napier & Another Company
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- INTRODUCTION
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- What Writer's Dream Can Do For You
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- Judging by the correspondence that comes to Another
- Company, we have found out that most of our customers are
- good writers. Most of you also know something very useful and
- possibly unique. Perhaps you are a retired glass blower, or
- know everything about training seeing-eye dogs, or could
- teach people how to cook nutritious foods. Perhaps you could
- write a course in industrial grinder safety, or volleyball,
- or advanced electronics, or elementary geology. Maybe you
- would be good at writing science fiction or children's
- stories.
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- But why bother? Becoming a published writer is nearly as
- difficult as becoming a rock 'n' roll star. Self-publishing
- costs money and requires marketing skill.
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- GUESS WHAT? There is another way to be published that
- works for absolutely everybody! Yet, almost no one knows
- about it. Using this technique costs almost nothing, but
- literally millions of people may read your writing! You can
- make unlimited money! What am I talking about? The Writer's
- Dream. The Writer's Dream is a way to put your information
- on IBM-compatible disks. If you can operate any word
- processing program, you can do this:
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- Let's say you have written a disk about house cats. You
- release it as a shareware product. This means you send copies
- to some shareware distributors.
- There are 72 million IBM-compatible computer users in
- America. Many of them are frequent shareware buyers. Some of
- them will get your disk, and they will make copies, which
- will in turn be read and copied by others. Eventually, one
- person out of every ten is likely to read your disk-based cat
- book. You, with your own little computer, could be an author
- with 7.2 million readers! And that's not all. You can put a
- commercial in your disk which inspires some of the readers to
- send you money. For instance, your commercial could
- introduce another disk-based book you have also written,
- called Dogs. Dogs is not shareware. The only way the
- readers can get your excellent dog disk is to send you
- $19.95! No doubt you see the potential!
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- In fact, since you can put text on a disk and therefore
- create information of interest to others, shareware is only
- one means of distribution. You might like to use it for
- in-house training or disk-based conferencing within your
- company, or you might like to create and sell a retail
- disk-based book product.
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- About the User Interface
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- There are a few other text presentation programs on the
- market, but so far as I know, none are as easy-to-use for
- both the author and the end user as this one.
- Writer's Dream is colorful, even allowing the reader to
- change the colors to suit individual taste. Writer's Dream
- has some special features such as automatic electronic
- indexing, on-line help, and "Autoscroll."
- Automatic indexing simply means that the reader can press
- the [S] key at any time, type any word or phrase, and
- instantly find it anywhere within a chapter.
- Autoscroll is really neat. Simply type a number from 1
- to 9 while reading, and the program will scroll the text past
- your eyes at whatever speed is comfortable. Changing the
- autoscroll speed is as simple as pressing another number key.
- Writer's Dream requires absolutely no learning on the
- part of the reader. They will be able to read your book
- instantly. Not only is it super-simple, it is becoming
- common. Many readers are already familiar and comfortable
- with Writer's Dream.
- The Writer's Dream main menu is mouse-driven for those
- who prefer a mouse interface.
- You can put programs on the main menu as well as text
- files. When the user selects a program, it will run
- normally, then return to the menu. This means you can mix
- programs to display graphics or allow user input within your
- text presentations!
- You can also put PCX files on the main menu, and Writer's
- will display your pictures automatically in up to 256 colors.
- If you have sensitive information which must not be
- changed and passed along by end users, file encryption is
- also provided by the Writer's Dream software.
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- The next chapter will instruct you in how to create your own
- book with Writer's Dream.
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- Note: This is a shareware program. If you create and make
- copies of a disk-based book, you are required to purchase a
- license ($29.95). See the TO PLACE AN ORDER (ORDER.DOC)
- chapter for details.
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- ANOTHER NOTE: Writer's Dream is presented on an as-is basis.
- I make no claims or warranties as to suitability to your
- purposes, and will absolutely not be responsible for any
- situations which arise due to your use of this program.
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