Posts Tagged ‘Publishing’

Four ways to make life easier if you self-publish

Anna Lewis | 5:20 pm 18 Jun 10 Comments 16

Self-publishing your book is now easier than ever. Self-publishing your book well, however, can still be a real challenge. You will often hear mutterings in publishing spheres that, “You can always spot a self-published book just by looking at it”. And in all fairness, it’s not too surprising, especially if you have chosen to do as much as possible yourself. I’m going to hazard a guess that it is unlikely that as an author, you have also trained and worked as a designer, typesetter, editor, proof-reader and marketer in between writing your book! It’s undoubtedly going to be hard to get the same effect as a publisher who has spent thousands on a book’s production. However, there are some basic things that you can do that will make your life much easier and help your book blend in with the best.

Tags: Publishing, Publishing and Printing, Self-publishing, Typesetting, Writing —

Free or Fee? Valuing Content in the Digital Era – Part 1

Suzanne Kavanagh | 9:55 pm 23 Mar 10 Comments Off

Ben Hammersley, Editor-at-Large of Wired UK is an engaging speaker, not afraid to tell the audience: “if you’re not producing content for all platforms – especially mobile – your business will die.” Straight to the point then. He also made a pertinent point (much to the relief of many in the room) that the old formats won’t die. Cinema didn’t kill theatre, the iPad won’t kill print. Each format is usually better in one way than the other.

Tags: Ben Hammersley, Conference, Innovation, iPad, LCC, magazines, Publishing, Steve Jobs, WIRED —

Kindle 2 and the publishing revolution

Jon Reed | 11:06 pm 24 Feb 09 Comments 4

Everyone’s talking about Kindle 2. To those outside the industry this must sound as opaque and mysterious a revolution as Vatican 2. [My only reference for that is The Thornbirds, which you can now buy as a Kindle edition].
The Kindle 2 is the next generation of Amazon’s wireless e-book reading device, and it started shipping [...]

Tags: Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Amazon.com, Daily Show, iPhone, Jeff Bezos, Jon Stewart, Kindle 2, Publishing, Sony Reader —

Tools of Change 2009

Jon Reed | 8:51 pm 20 Feb 09 Comments Off

Were you at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York last week? No? Me either. If, like me, you missed out on the annual digital publishing love-in, here is your crib sheet:

download the slides from your favourite presentations
watch Chris Brogan’s presentation on Blogging and Social Media.

Enjoy!

Tags: blogging, Chris Brogan, New York, O'Reilly Media, Publishing, social media —