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Writers' forums and market intelligence
Wooden Horse Publishing. http://www.woodenhorsepub.com "Market facts for writers." Comprehensive and very well organized.

Writer's Digest. http://www.writersdigest.com The online version of the magazine about writers' markets.

Fathom. http://www.fathom.com Rarefied online forums, courses, lectures. A cast of thousands.

Atlantic Online. http://www.theatlantic.com/language Language-related columns and features from the monthly.

Plain Language Network. http://www.plainlanguage.gov Volunteer civil servants who aim to improve communication from the federal government to the people. Resources include before-and-after samples of forms, memos, regulations.

Scriptorium. http://www.thescriptorium.net "A virtual room for writers." Cozy.

Contentious. http://www.contentious.com "The e-zine for people who write or publish content for online media." A one-woman show, and a good one.

Writers.Net. http://www.writers.net Find an agent, find an editor, find a publisher, commiserate.

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Associated Writing Programs. http://awpwriter.org An association of 320 member colleges and universities and 60 writers' conferences and centers. Competitions, events, jobs.

Travelwriters.com. http://main.travelwriters.com Business-like site for buying and selling travel writing.

Writers Write. http://www.writerswrite.com News, jobs, reviews, events—for and about writers.

Copy Editor. http://copyeditor.com/default.asp?id=3 Free job bank for copyeditors and proofreaders; otherwise, site fronts for venerable print newsletter.

Writing That Works. http://www.writingthatworks.com For people who "write, edit and manage business communications for a living." Online version of print newsletter.

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Discussion lists and newsgroups

Copyediting-L. http://listserv.indiana.edu/archives/copyediting-l.html A very busy list for professional parsers of verbal fine points.

In the Washington, D.C., area dcpubs http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcpubs extends its scope to design and production issues, as well as editing. Even broader are alt.usage.English, http://alt-usage-english.org/introdocs.shtml a newsgroup on the English language, and ADS-L, http://www.americandialect.org an e-mail discussion list on the dialects of North American English operated by the American Dialect Society.

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Literature online
Bibliomania. http://www.bibliomania.com The full text of 800 classics, plus study guides, summaries, and a shop.

Bartleby.com. http://www.bartleby.com All 70 volumes of the Harvard Classics, Shakespeare, the Bible, novels, reference works, and dozens of free e-book downloads.

Project Gutenberg. http://www.promo.net/pg Recruits volunteers to create e-texts from their favorite public domain works. The project publishes a new work every day.

Electronic Text Center. http://etext.lib.virginia.edu Over a recent nine-month period, the center, located at the University of Virginia, "shipped" 2.5 million e-books, an average of 9,259 each day.

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