puters. In December 1999, she wrote in an email
interview: "My site is still pretty basic and under
construction. Like my bookstore, it is a place to meet people
before being a place of business. The internet is a pain in the
neck, takes a lot of my time and I earn hardly any money from
it, but that doesn't worry me... I am very pessimistic though,
because the internet is killing off specialist bookstores."

Some booksellers decided to run most of their business online,
for example Pierre Joppen and his wife Joke Vrijenhoek, the
owners of Paulus Swaen Old Maps and Prints, a bookstore founded
in 1978 in the Netherlands that relocated in 1996 in Florida.
The bookstore offers maps, atlases and globes ranging from the
16th to the 18th century. The maps cover all parts of the
world, and were produced by renowned cartographers, such as
Ortelius, Mercator, Blaeu, Janssonius, Hondius, Visscher, de
Wit, etc. The bookstore has also sold travel books and Medieval
manuscripts. It has offered an online internet auction since
November 1996, first twice a year, in March and November, and
then four times a year, in March, May, September and November.

1996: THERE ARE MORE AND MORE TEXTS ONLINE

= [Overview]

Created in 1992, the Etext Archives were "home to electronic
texts of all kinds". Created in 1993, the E-zine-list was a
list of electronic zines around the world. The first electronic
versions of print newspapers were available in the early 1990s
through commercial services like America Online and CompuServe.
In 1996, newspapers and magazines began offering websites with
a partial or full version of their latest issue, available
freely or through subscription (free or paid), as well as
online archives. In United Kingdom, the daily Times and the
Sunday Times set up a common website called Times Online. The
weekly publication The Economist also went online, as well as
the weekly Focus and Der Spiegel in Germany, the daily Le Monde
and Liberation in France, and the daily El Pais in Spain. The
computer press went logically online as well, first the monthly
Wired, "the magazine of the future at the avant-garde of the
21st century", then ZDNet, another leading computer magazine.
More and more "only" electronic magazines were also created.

= Electronic texts and newsletters

The Etext Archives were founded in 1992 by Paul Southworth, and
hosted on the website of the University of Michigan. They were
"home to electronic