The Internet and Self-Publishing

With the computer and the ease of photo copying, mimeographing, type setting in word processors, you could create your own little zenes. This kind of stuff has been going on forever. It became a lot easier in the eighties and nineties, to reproduce our writing and spread it. And then there was this massive shift, of course, in the mid nineties, when the internet became something that we all got access toand more and more people were there. One of te first things i noticed when i went on line were communities springing up around writers and writing and people sharing their work. I don't think that john steinbeck had a very satisfying relationship with