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Subject:Re: Experience with Style Guide From:Stacey Roberts <stacey -at- AIMETERING -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 3 Dec 1996 11:42:51 -0600
I've not seen it, but according to Amazon Books:
Wired Style : Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age
by Constance Hale
Spiral Edition
Hardcover
List: $17.95 -- Amazon.com Price: $17.95
Published by Hardwired
Publication date: October 1, 1996
ISBN: 1888869011
Synopsis:
Wired magazine's top editors have weighed thousands of new terms,
phrases, idioms, and usages of the language since the advent of the
global village. Elements of Style is no longer sufficient as a guide to
English usage--Wired America needs Wired Style.
Customer Comments
09/07/96, rating=3:
Price gouging
Originally catalogued at $15.95, this book is now listed at $17.95.
You're paying a lot of extra money for fancy, unnecessary packaging--a
slipcase and a hidden wire binding. All this to tell you that TCI
should be spelled "TCI"?
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Mike Ingram wrote:
> Has anyone seen any reviews of the following style guide: Wired
Style:
> Principles of English Usage in the Digital Age?
Mike Dean wrote:
No I have not even heard of it. I would like to hear of it however,
any info like maybe an ISBN? Did Nicholas Negroponte have anything to
do with this?
