Monday, July 30, 2007
Aaron Swartz has announced a demo of the Open Library Project. I really admire this idea and wish him and the team the very best of luck with it. The technology looks really good and the team includes designer Rebecca Malamud who's work I have admired before at MappaMundi.net
Monday, April 16, 2007
Back in January 2007, Google put together a session at the New York public library.
This session was called Advanced Book Publishing in a Digital World and included an interview with David Worlock from EPS/Outsell. The video made at this event has been posted on YouTube so I provide a link to it here…
Sunday, February 04, 2007
Penguin is experimenting with a group authored book based on the web technology behind wikipedia.
Via Yahoo News.
Tuesday, January 09, 2007
Martyn Daniels pointed us towards the Random House promotion of the new Dr Hannibal Lecter novel from Thomas Harris.
Random House have set up a dedicated web site for the book here and after a creeping about in a virtual space you can get a sample of the book. Don’t get too excited though. We don’t think this is as good as it sounds. Here is Martyn Daniels site, where we first observed this topic.
Saturday, September 02, 2006
BookSurge is a subsiduary of Amazon. They offer a complete publishing and printing services for authors and customized printing and fulfillment services for publishers.
For authors this potentially leaves out the need for a publisher at all. Amazon will take care of the editing and marketing, printing and distribution. If the book needs illustration then that can be organised as well.
This ain’t for free! As an example, a children’s title will cost around $6,500 whereas a biography (your life story!) could cost only $3,800. More details about the costs can be found here.
BookSurge is promoted on the Amazon.com web site.
This web site is a kind of depository for all the things about getting stuff onto the web.
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