	Contents
	About TONIC
	Using TONIC
	Introducing the Internet
	Exploring the Internet
	Internet tools
	Searching the Internet
	Communication
	Creating web pages
	Course conclusion

Using email from suggestion to publication

Ed Krol, in the Preface to his book "The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog" says:

... the existence of this book is a tribute to the power and usefulness of the Internet

The story of the book's production centres around the use of electronic mail. It was through email that:

the author and the editor met
the editor suggested doing the book
the plan for the book was worked out
draft chapters were sent to the editor for annotation and amendment
amended chapters were returned to the author
the entire book could be sent in the space of a few minutes (3 days by normal post)
the author gathered much information for the Resource Catalog without having to leave home.

Almost all of the many exchanges involved in editing and production of the book were done by email, the exception being legalities and contracts. Even after publication of the book, Krol had still not met anyone from the publishing firm, but through email, had successfully worked with them in producing an excellent book which went on to sell 250,000 copies and ran into a second edition and has now been written for Windows 95 users.