It used to be that freelancing involved a lot of postal mail, and sometimes couriers (which some publishers seemed to use like they were inter-office mail), whether you were sending typed pages or files on floppy disks. Then faxing got involved on occasion, at least for things like contracts. When I did my first book way back when ("Using Eudora" for the curious), it took a bit to convince the editors to let us submit the chapters through email. After all, it was a book about email, so wouldn't that be a cool tie-in? -- Read more