| 71 | If You Are Thinking of Publishing An eBook...May I Ask You A Few Questions First? Preview: When Was The Last Time You Read A Scroll? I asked the question to make a point, because I'm feed up with people comparing ebooks to printed books. Folks, they are basically the same when you think about what they DO. Both printed books and ebooks hold text and pictures and are used in the distribution process, it's as simple as that. Here's s... (more) Published By: David Hallum Submitted: 09 December,2001 |
| 72 | Cross stitch design Preview: I have written this e-Book on Cross Stitch and Photo conversion work to teach people how easy it is to convert a photo into a chart. there are over 90 graphics in the book showing each step of the way. From the novice stitcher to the more experienced, there will be something in here to help everyone. Free chart also available for printing to start... (more) Published By: Gladys Box Submitted: 10 December,2001 |
| 73 | Easy E-Book Promotion Tips Preview: Once your e-book is sold and on the publisher’s web site, don’t expect the sales to come rolling in. Unless you have a huge network of family and friends with credit cards and PayPal accounts at the ready, you’re not likely to rack up much in the way of sales without promoting your book. Here are five tips to getting people to notice your novel o... (more) Published By: Lisa Maliga Submitted: 15 December,2001 |
| 74 | How Not To Get Published Preview: HOW NOT TO GET PUBLISHED Copyright 2001, Michael LaRocca http://free_reads.tripod.com (This article may be freely published with author's information intact.) One morning, I decided to sleep late for a change. I stumbled out of bed at 10:00, not my usual 7:00, and fired up the computer. Little did I know what I'd find in my mailbox on this parti... (more) Published By: Michael LaRocca Submitted: 16 December,2001 |
| 75 | Dream Job Crisis Preview: Americans are working, women are out of the house, so mission accomplished? No, not exactly. Seventy-five percent * of Americans are working in a field they don’t like. Not only does that mean that work quality suffers, but that quality of life plummets. Is having a dream job really that out of reach? Well, how did you get started in your job? ... (more) Published By: Amy Crawford Submitted: 17 December,2001 |
| 76 | What is it? How does it work? Preview: What is it? How does it work? I don’ t get it. The Internet is full of tools and ever-changing developments that can leave the mild surfer in a cyber rip current, left in a wash on how to get grounded. One new development, ebooks, benefits all Internet users but still plagues the lot of us. So, Dream Jobs To Go.com is throwing out a free ebook, ... (more) Published By: Amy Crawford Submitted: 17 December,2001 |
| 77 | Revolt of the Scholars Preview: http://www.realsci.com/ Scindex's Instant Publishing Service is about empowerment. The price of scholarly, peer-reviewed journals has skyrocketed in the last few years, often way out of the limited means of libraries, universities, individual scientists and scholars. A "scholarly divide" has opened between the haves (academic institutions with ri... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 78 | Jamaican Overdrive - LDC's and LCD's Preview: OverDrive - an e-commerce, software conversion and e-publishing applications leader - has just expanded an e-book technology centre by adding 200 e-book editors. This happened in Montego Bay, Jamaica - one of the less privileged spots on earth. The centre now provides a vertical e-publishing service - from manuscript editing to conversion to Quark... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 79 | Invasion of the Amazons Preview: The last few months have witnessed a bloodbath in tech stocks coupled with a frantic re-definition of the web and of every player in it (as far as content is concerned). This effort is three pronged: Some companies are gambling on content distribution and the possession of the attendant digital infrastructure. MightyWords, for example, stealth... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 80 | The Disintermediation of Content Preview: Are content brokers - publishers, distributors, and record companies - a thing of the past? In one word: disintermediation The gradual removal of layers of content brokering and intermediation - mainly in manufacturing marketing - is the continuation of a long term trend. Consider music for instance. Streaming audio on the internet ("soft radio"... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 81 | E(merging) Books Preview: A novel re-definition through experimentation of the classical format of the book is emerging. Consider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer other niches (such as the legal and medical professions). It allows users to select bits and pieces fr... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 82 | The Internet and the Library Preview: "In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books for free." (ZDNet quoted by "Publisher's Lunch on July 13, 2001) It is amazing that the traditional archivists of human knowledge - the libraries - faile... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 83 | An Ambarrassment of Riches Preview: http://www.doi.org/ The Internet is too rich. Even powerful and sophisticated search engines, such as Google, return a lot of trash, dead ends, and Error 404's in response to the most well-defined query, Boolean operators and all. Directories created by human editors - such as Yahoo! or the Open Directory Project - are often overwhelmed by the... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 84 | The Idea of Reference Preview: http://www.britannica.com There is no source of reference remotely as authoritative as the Encyclopaedia Britannica. There is no brand as venerable and as veteran as this mammoth labour of knowledge and ideas established in 1768. There is no better value for money. And, after a few sputters and bugs, it now comes in all shapes and sizes, includin... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 85 | The Medium and the Message Preview: A debate is raging in e-publishing circles: should content be encrypted and protected (the Barnes and Noble or Digital goods model) - or should it be distributed freely and thus serve as a form of viral marketing (Seth Godin's "ideavirus")? Publishers fear that freely distributed and cost-free "cracked" e-books will cannibalize print books to obli... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 86 | The Miraculous Conversion Preview: http://www.ideavirus.com The recent bloodbath among online content peddlers and digital media proselytisers can be traced to two deadly sins. The first was to assume that traffic equals sales. In other words, that a miraculous conversion will spontaneously occur among the hordes of visitors to a web site. It was taken as an article of faith that ... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 87 | The Affair of the Vanishing Content Preview: http://www.archive.org/ "Digitized information, especially on the Internet, has such rapid turnover these days that total loss is the norm. Civilization is developing severe amnesia as a result; indeed it may have become too amnesiac already to notice the problem properly." (Stewart Brand, President, The Long Now Foundation ) Thousands of artic... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 88 | The Kidnapping of Content Preview: http://www.plagiarism.org and http://www.Turnitin.com Latin kidnapped the word "plagion" from ancient Greek and it ended up in English as "plagiarism". It literally means "to kidnap" - most commonly, to misappropriate content and wrongly attribute it to oneself. It is a close kin of piracy. But while the software or content pirate does not bother... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 89 | A Brief History of the Book - Part II Preview: E-books, cheaper than even paperbacks, are the quintessential "literature for the millions". Both erstwhile reprint libraries and current e-book publishers specialize in inexpensive books in the public domain (i.e., whose copyright expired). John Bell (competing with Dr. Johnson) put out "The Poets of Great Britain" in 1777-83. Each of the 109 vol... (more) Published By: Sam Vaknin Submitted: 20 December,2001 |
| 90 | Audio and E-book Opportunties Preview: I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago, and the email exchanges of those members is quite exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night I came to one where a writer who has vision trouble and can't read regular print books challenged the others to produce more e-books. E-books are read on the computer, and the greatest thing... (more) Published By: Ruth Marlene Friesen Submitted: 20 December,2001 |