By 1992, publishers expected word processor quality, but you could still get by with a typewriter if you worked harder than everyone else. In 1982, if you used a word processor, you had an advantage over authors using typewriters. Authors who resisted the shift to word processors were eventually replaced by word processor users. Publishers started to expect higher levels of quality with little tolerance for misspellings and typos. Word processors also changed the expectations of industry professionals and readers. With the ease and accessibility of word processing, the number of books published each year grew exponentially. The word processor made writing books easier, allowing more people to write books. You could use its spell-checking feature and easily get feedback on your manuscript with the Track Changes feature. WordPerfect users could print a second copy of their manuscript as easily as they printed the first. Then WordPerfect arrived on the scene, and everything changed. Before copy machines, writers had to retype the whole book just to have a backup copy if the publisher’s copy was lost in the mail. Submitting the manuscript to publishers required lots of paper and postage. Once upon a time, authors wrote books on typewriters.Įditing was hard. Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed This episode was originally published here
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