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Booktype :: Make Free, Open Source eBooks
I want to try this … Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes. Create books If you are in need, then look for the … Continue reading
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eBook Study by Book Industry Study Group
Check out this summary of the Book Industry Study Group’s report on eBooks. Here are some things that jumped out to me: Kindle is, by far, the dominant device: A study confirms what we’ve all sensed: Readers are embracing … Continue reading
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Information Literacy in the Wild :: free eBook
On behalf of the University of Michigan’s SI 641 / EDCURINS 575 : Information Literacy for Teaching and Learning class, I invite you to download a copy of our 170+ page book, Information Literacy in the Wild. In this book, we share … Continue reading
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MAME Presentation :: Librarians as Publishers and Aggregators: Seizing the eBook Opportunity
MAME – Home via kwout It’s great to be home for a conference after a few weeks on the road. Today at the MAME conference, I’m talking about some tricks and tools that can help librarians move Web content to … Continue reading
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Holy cow — 85 downloads in an hour!
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Announcing our new crowdsourced eBook on school libraries!
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John Williams on
Film composer and former Boston Pops conductor John Williams on composing with pencil and paper in lieu of computer: I find that at least for me pencil and paper introduces a process of working that’s as The prostrate wellbeing likewise … Continue reading
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How one journalist put his book on Amazon and BN
I’m currently seeing Smashwords as my leading choice for eBooks. For free, you can follow their explicit instructions for formatting your manuscript. A single upload, and Smashwords will transform your eBook into HTML, PDF, and a bunch of eReader formats. … Continue reading
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Smashwords Guide Updated
When I experimented with Smashwords.com, a site that will help you go from Word document all the way to ISBN-blessed manuscript for sale (or for free) on its site plus most major eBook vendors (Amazon.com is coming soon), I found … Continue reading
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Link: A Crash Course in Digital Publishing
Here’s yet another take on self-publishing. This one begins by pointing out the long heritage of self-publishing, going right back to Ben Franklin publishing his own Poor Richard’s Almanac and continues by linking to lots of other resources on the … Continue reading
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