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Findings: discover, organize, and share your highlights

Findings: discover, organize, and share your highlights

Current Trends in the Digital Publishing World Hi, my name is D’vorah Lansky and I am excited to share this blog post, on the topic of Digital Publishing, with you. I’d like to thank Kathleen for hosting me during this virtual tour, in honor of Digital Publishing Virtual Summit, where we feature 20 world-renowned book marketing experts. Today I’ll be talking about current trends in the Digital Publishing world. Even authors who have a print version of their book will benefit greatly by also having their book available in digital format. Providing easy access to their books on eReaders will allow them to sell more books and reach more readers. Having content in audio and video format, opens up additional opportunities while providing consumers with content in their preferred format. Think about your own learning style. In addition to digital downloadable products, you can digitally produce audio CDs and video DVDs for your audience. The fastest way to create content is to produce an audio recording. Here are just a few ideas:

Books have a big future - Readmill Stixy: For Flexible Online Creation Collaboration and Sharing Tablets Are Destroying Stories by Micah Baldwin I spend the majority of my day with creators, authors and publishers. The ability of storytellers to see a world that could exist and share it with words and pictures is amazing. When I am not chatting with storytellers, I am talking about how to distribute their stories digitally. Easy right? Turns out its not that easy, but thats a story for another day (or just go check out Graphicly, its what we do thousands of times a day). What is fascinating is that creators are beginning to take into account the delivery mechanism of their stories. That’s right. Think about it. But tablets are different. Every app on your tablet is screaming for attention. We accept it because we live in a world where distraction has become the norm, and we spend more time chasing shiny objects than on completion. Multi-tasking arises out of distraction itself We pride ourselves on our ability to multi-task and swear it doesn’t take away from our ability to produce at a high level. People read more often digitally.

7 Essential Books on Music, Emotion, and the Brain by Maria Popova What Freud has to do with auditory cheesecake, European opera and world peace. Last year, Horizon’s fascinating documentary on how music works was one of our most-liked pickings of 2010. But perhaps even more fascinating than the subject of how music works is the question of why it makes us feel the way it does. Today, we try to answer it with seven essential books that bridge music, emotion and cognition, peeling away at that tender intersection of where your brain ends and your soul begins. We love the work of neuroscientist and prolific author Oliver Sacks, whose latest book, The Mind’s Eye, was one of our favorite brain books last year. Why music makes us feel the way it does is on par with questions about the nature of divinity or the origin of love. Patel also offers this beautiful definition of what music is: Sound organized in time, intended for, or perceived as, aesthetic experience. Donating = Loving Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter. Share on Tumblr

Share Book Recommendations With Your Friends, Join Book Clubs, Answer Trivia Kindle Direct Publishing: Help Professional translation services are available to publishers who are interested in translating their KDP work into other languages, further widening their global audience. Finding a Translator for Your Desired Language This site lists several associations in Europe that may help you find freelancers to translate your work. Some Things to Consider Here are a few questions you may want to ask a freelancer to help make a decision: • How long will the translation take? Words from Authors Who've Translated Their Work Here are some testimonials from KDP authors who have had their works translated: My Spanish translation of Area 51 is selling well on Amazon ES and also in the United States. -Bob Mayer, best-selling KDP author In the digital era, non-English readers are just a button-click away. -Scott Nicholson, best-selling KDP author With regards to how long it takes per book that depends on the length of the book and each translator's schedule. The price depends on length and language.

375 Free eBooks: Download to Kindle, iPad/iPhone & Nook Download 800 free eBooks to your Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smart phone or ereader. Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce. Also please see our collection 1,000 Free Audio Books: Download Great Books for Free, where you can download more great books to your computer or mp3 player. Learn how to load ebook (.mobi) files to your Kindle with this video Religious Texts Assorted Texts This list of Free eBooks has received mentions in the The Daily Beast, Computer World, Gizmodo and Lifehacker.

3 frequent mistakes to be avoided during the creation of your digital publication 0inShare0inShare We often use this blog to give helpful tips and pointers for users of digital magazine software. We thought it might be useful to highlight some common mistakes that are made when creating these digital magazines and how to avoid them. 1. The Image resolution controls the size of the zoomed-in pages that are created. These settings will determine the size of the digital edition and the speed at which pages are loaded. 2. Here is an example of how an online publication is listed in Google: Note that there are keywords present in the Page Title, a meaningful and useful page description that helps the searcher understand what the ebook is about and finally keywords in the url (taken from the name of the project folder.) 3. One reason your customers love digital magazines is because they can quickly find the information they are looking for. Here’s a screen shot of a populated contents menu in a digital publication. By 3D Issue

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