Richard Seltzer, author of Shop Online the Lazy Way

Copyright 1999 by Richard Seltzer. All rights are reserved.

The following article is based on the introduction from Shop Online the Lazy Way, a book written by Richard Seltzer, which was published in August 1999 by Macmillan. It is available in paperback directly from our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat or from Amazon.com. It is also available in a Braille edition from National Braille Press (www.nbp.org).

Now that the rights have reverted to the author, he is free to update and revise this online version. Please send email to alert him of changes and interesting new sites that you have encountered.

Call me an evangelist--an "Internet evangelist." I love this stuff--anything and everything about how people connect to people over the Internet. When I'm not tinkering with my Web site (www.samizdat.com) and answering email (seltzer@samizdat.com), I'm probably talking about what I've learned--spreading the "gospel." And--miracle of miracles--that's how I make my living. In fact, the title on my business card at Digital Equipment (where I worked for 19 years) was "Internet Evangelist." Now I'm an independent consultant (www.samizdat.com/consult.html), doing the same thing.

Take a look at my Web site to get a sense of the variety of interests and experiences that I bring to this book. There you'll find:

• Transcripts of my weekly chat sessions about "Business on the World Wide Web," which I've held since the summer of 1996.
• The complete text of my book on how to build a successful personal or business Web site on a shoestring budget.
• Dozens of articles and speeches about how to use the Internet effectively. (I wrote the book the "AltaVista Search Revolution," published by McGraw-Hill, and often emphasize the importance of search engines and text content for attracting traffic to Web sites.)
• A catalog of hundreds of books (mostly in the public domain), which I make available on diskette. (I've been selling electronic books over the Internet since 1993.)
• My Online Shopping Directory at www.samizdat.com/shopping.html, which links to all the sites mentioned in this book.
• All the fiction I've written, including my novels, The Name of Hero, and Sandcastles; my fantasy, The Lizard of Oz; my screenplay, Spit and Polish; as well as several additional plays and stories.
• Ethiopia Through Russian Eyes, my translation of two books by the Russian explorer, Alexander Bulatovich, from the 1890s (published in print by Red Sea Press).
• A list of every book I've read for the last 41 years.
• Online resources for the blind.
• Articles and links for parents of children with cleft-lip/cleft-palate.
• My parents' jewelry business.

This site is Published by B&R Samizdat Express, 33 Gould St., West Roxbury, MA 02132. (617) 469-2269. seltzer@samizdat.com

Please visit our online store at http://store.yahoo.com/samizdat

You may also want to check Richard's Online Shopping Directory www.samizdat.com/shopping.html, which has links to all the sites mentioned in the entire book, plus sites he has learned of since the book went into production.

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For a thorough discussion of this topic, buy Richard's book Web Business Bootcamp (published by Wiley) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471164194/brsamizdatexpres

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