West Coast Editor is available in Portable Document Format (PDF) and is sent by email monthly to members. To view the journal, you require Adobe Acrobat Reader, a free software program which can be downloaded from the Adobe site.

The following issues are available for download from the year 1999:

December 1999:

• Improving your on-screen editing
• Choosing a word processor for copyediting
• Developing a mentoring relationship
• Good business practices for freelance success

November 1999

• Forming a Meeting Editorial Standards study group
• A review of (and some tips from) Jim Taylor's popular Eight Step Editing workshop
• Photos of some of our Word on the Street volunteers, along with Sheilagh Simpson's description of the successful event
• One of Kathleen Hamilton's popular Canadian Crosswords -- just the thing to pass a rainy afternoon (the solution appears in the December issue

October 1999:

• The story of William Chester Minor, one of the Oxford English Dictionary's most prolific and unusual contributors
• Alan Twigg's inside look at the local book publishing scene
• Preliminary notes on the practical subjunctive ("I wish I was/were")
• Professional development opportunities around the province

September 1999:

• Corporate communication for editors
• Sex and the art of editing
• EAC's 20th anniversary conference, "The Art of Editing"