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The Naturalist. Python. R. HOW TO: Self-Publish Anything Online. Scott Steinberg is the CEO of high-tech consulting firm TechSavvy Global, and a frequent tech analyst for ABC, CBS and CNN. He's covered the field for 400+ outlets from NPR to Rolling Stone. His latest self-published venture is the online video series and magazine Game Theory. Starting your own fashion label; becoming a high-flying media mogul; publishing the next great novel — everyone’s got their own vision of the “American Dream.” Today, courtesy of countless online self-publishing services, taking the first big steps toward these goals is easier than ever. Anyone can take advantage of custom design, order fulfillment, payment processing and worldwide shipping solutions to start their own record label or launch tomorrow’s most addictive software app.

Artwork, Clothing and Collectibles The globe’s largest online art fair Etsy makes it possible to send handcrafted goods including pottery, furniture, jewelry, knitting and purses to millions of fans of fine Bohemian wares. Food and Drink. Jottify | A new space for writers to share, read and sell. ABCtales | Come and write stories at abctales.com. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Artist Books 3.0 - Where artists' books and the book arts meet online... Cowbird · A witness to life. Launching a new idea in a post-paper world. Subscribe to our free email newsletter. We'll update you once or twice a week, and we'll never rent or sell your email address to anyone. Thanks. Today my new manifesto Stop Stealing Dreams goes ‘on-sale’. On-sale is in air quotes because it’s free, but we don’t have a word for the on-free date.

Ideas that spread are worth a lot–to the community and to the creator of those ideas as well. But what if there’s no book to buy? We still don’t have a good way to demarcate when a book ends and when something else (a manifesto?) For this project, my goal is to spread the idea, not monetize it. I’ve posted the manifesto as both a printable PDF as well as a PDF you can read on screen and as an ebook (in both sideloading Kindle and ePub/Nook format). Mechanics (wins and frustrations): I wrote the manifesto in Nisus, a fabulous word processor for the Mac. To create the printable PDF, all I had to do was change the styles, add a footer and “save as PDF”. Creating the ebooks was a little trickier. Unbound | books are now in your hands. Make Your Own Book, Create a Book Online, Custom Books.