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? Just put it on iBooks or Kindle or NOOK. Internet electricity use is huge, but industry isn't worried - May. 3 Electricity needed to stream all those videos and do all those searches is increasing by 10% a year, but the power industry says it's not a problem. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- The Internet uses more electricity in America than the auto industry uses to make cars and trucks. Yet despite all the talk about the nation's aging power grid, utility experts say they can easily handle the additional demand. In a way, for energy producers, the huge increase in usage by companies like Google (GOOG, Fortune 500) and Facebook is a godsend. Electricity demand from many industrial clients has dropped by up to 20% over the last few years, largely due to the recession and greater efficiency. Tech sector growth "has helped make that decrease not so bad," said Steve Rosenstock, an engineer at the Edison Electric Institute, the utility trade association.
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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.
WHAT WE CANNOT PREDICT - An EDGE Special Event J. DOYNE FARMER Chaos Theory Pioneer; McKinsey Professor, Sante Fe, Institute; Co-Founder, former Co-President of The Prediction Company Viewing the Nuclear Accident in Japan Through the Lens of Systemic Risk Predicting risk might sound like an oxymoron, but it isn't: We do it everyday. Teen Read Week 2011 Home | Registration | Plan Your Event | Resources | Team Teen Read Week | Get Publicity Teen Read Week Mini Grants | FAQ | Teen Read Week Official Products Sample Press Release | Sample Letters to Editor | Sample PSA Scripts (English) | Audio PSAs | Sample Proclamation | Using the TRW Logo Spread the word about Teen Read Week! Use the tools listed on this page and then tell us what you've done. Libraries across the country are planning special events for Teen Read Week, encouraging teens to read something light and humorous, just for the fun of it!
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. You may need to use an online translation site or browser plugin to navigate the freelancers' websites, since they're generally displayed in their native language.
Tomboy : Simple note taking Login GNOME.org Tomboy Simple note-taking. Tomboy is a desktop note-taking application for Linux, Unix, Windows, and Mac OS X. Simple and easy to use, but with potential to help you organize the ideas and information you deal with every day. The Creative Intelligence Blog. Monday, September 20th, 2010 It’s short story time. This one’s by Leo Tolstoy, the writer every aspiring novelist should read. Daily, if possible. It’s called: ‘Three Questions’ and some of you may know it as it’s rather famous. 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. Online digital versions have so many benefits for both your end reader and your business so make sure you avoid these mistakes in order to gain maximum effectiveness.
A Moore’s Law for Technology Services? - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com#more-4687#more-4687 Could there be a kind of Moore’s Law that would cover predictable advancement in complex technology consulting services? It’s a question that people familiar with the services business might find comical and perplexing. Services engagements are called engagements for a reason. They’re often one-off hand-holding proposals with indefinite ends. So it seems tough for a company to claim any type of consistent improvement in services performance where a client could expect to see, say, twice as much efficiency every couple of years. But I.B.M. — who else?
Why Publishers Don't Like Apps By the time Apple released the iPad in April of 2010, only four months after Steve Jobs first announced his “magical and revolutionary” new machines, traditional publishers were gripped by a collective delusion. They had convinced themselves that tablet computers and smart phones would allow them to unwind their unhappy histories with the Internet. For publishers whose businesses had evolved during the long day of print newspapers and magazines, the expansion of the Internet was terribly disorienting. The Web taught readers that they might read stories whenever they liked without charge, and it offered companies more efficient ways to advertise; both parties spent less. Things Reviewed:Technology Review iPad app version 2.0 The Daily iPad-only newspaper Financial Times html5 website www.ft.com