text: Publications about The WELL Beckerman, Gal, The Quiet Before: On the unexpected origins of radical ideas (2022) Crown   The chapter, "Interlude: Cyberspace," covers the WELL and lessons learned about virtual community.
  Bruckman, Amy; Curtis, Pavel; Figallo, Cliff; and Laurel, Brenda. “Approaches to Managing Deviant Behavior in Virtual Communities." Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, Massachusetts, April 24–28, 1994. Conference Companion. ResearchGate. Retrieved February 6, 2022.
  Coate, John. "Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community." Proceedings of Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing (DIAC-92). Berkeley, California, May 2–3, 1992. Collected in Reinventing Technology, Rediscovering Community: Critical Explorations of Computing as a Social Project. Philip E. Agre and Douglas Schuler, eds. Greenwich, Conn.: Ablex Publications, 1997. . An updated and revised version, "Building Online Community," is hosted on his website.
  Driscoll, Kevin, The Modem World: A Prehistory of Social Media. (2022) Yale University. . It contrasts The WELL's paid membership model with the volunteer structure of most BBSes, and notes that The WELL was one of the first dial-up systems directly accessible from the internet.
  Grossman, Wendy M. Net.wars. New York University Press, 1997. .
  Hafner, Katie, The WELL: A Story of Love, Death and Real Life in the Seminal Online Community (2001) Carroll & Graf Publishers   Hafner's book was expanded from a Wired Magazine article.