“Como eu esqueci as editoras e me tornei um best seller na internet” How to Create an eBook the Open Source Way. By Bryan Behrenshausen Astute readers will have noticed that we’ve begun publishing our "Open Voices" eBooks in the ePub format. Now, some of our best essays and interviews are available as lightweight and portable files, and can be read on any electronic reading device that supports this open standard. And who better to undertake the task of converting our library than your friendly opensource.com intern?
This summer, I’ve refined what I consider a simple, reliable method for creating eBooks the open source way. Our task This guide explains one method for creating electronic books ("eBooks") in the ePub format using open source tools available on most popular computing platforms. ePub is the International Digital Publishing Forum's open standard for digital book publishing, and most major electronic reading devices support it (except for the Kindle—sorry, Amazon fans!). You will need Alright. Preparing content First things first: your eBook needs content. Applying styles Headings. Next steps. 7 Platforms Changing the Future of Publishing and Storytelling. By Kirstin Butler Cutting out the middleman, or what the Nobel Peace Prize has to do with harnessing the potential of tablets.
Depending on whom you ask, these are either the best or the worst of times for the written word. As with every other branch of traditional media, the Internet has pushed the publishing industry to a critical inflection point, something we’ve previously discussed. Disrupting the mainstream marketplaces for journalism, literature, and the fundamental conventions of reading and writing themselves, here are seven startups that promise to reshape the way we create and consume ideas. Byliner, whose beautifully designed site officially launched last week, is easily the most ambitious of the initiatives featured here. The startup is both a publisher, via its Byliner Originals subsidiary, and a discovery platform for longform nonfiction, offering Pandora-like recommendation functionality. Bringing a crowdfunded model to books, the U.K. Books In Browsers 2011: Craig Mod,"Beautiful Books"
Edição do autor (e-ink only) Lembro da primeira vez que li o termo “edição do autor” e de como demorei, então, pra entender que não se tratava de um nome de editora (descolé). Isso, claro, foi lá na época que os livros eram de papel e tinham cheiros e texturas únicas. Faz pouco tempo, mas se auto-publicar (free hífen) deixou de ter a gloriosa vibe pós-hippie de autores desconhecidos e suas poesias revolucionárias. Ou um estilo J.Borges wannabe. Quer ver? Todos os textos que li sobre edições do autor em ebook falam da Amanda Hocking, uma escritora de 27 anos que publica romances paranormais e se tornou milionária seguindo essa corrente de independência em e-paper. E tudo começou porque ela queria descolar uma grana pra viajar com os amigos. Mas, ih, ela nem é a única. O primeiro milionário de edições caseiras de e-book é o John Locke (não esse. nem esse.). Because this bubble is based on cultural, not purely economic, grounds.
Mais que isso. E nós, leitores, sempre refocilamos na alegria da variedade.