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WRITER'S DREAM
Version 4.20
Copyright 1991, 1993 Jeff Napier & Another Company
INTRODUCTION
What Writer's Dream Can Do For You
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.
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.
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:
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!
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.
About the User Interface
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.
The next chapter will instruct you in how to create your own
book with Writer's Dream.
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.
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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chapter end.