Ebook Formats: A Quick Guide For Self-Publishers Ebook Formats: A Quick Guide For Self-Publishers Are you considering self-publishing your own ebook? If yes, then ebook formats are important and this is article is all for you. If no, well this post is probably a waste of your time and it’s best you stop reading now… Still with me? Good. OK – let’s just define Self-Publish a little more clearly. This article is for writers who intend to sell their book in ebook formats. In short this means via Amazon or Apple onto eReaders such as the Kindle or iPad. The goal of this article is to explain a little about the technical aspects of creating ebooks. It’s not a full-blown technical guide. It has been written to give you just enough information to be dangerous. In other words, this article will help you decide on the next step forward. By this I mean this article will give you enough information for you to make an informed choice about the best way to convert your Word/Pages/OpenOffice file into an ebook. Think VHS vs Betamax Let’s start at the start… 1.
Release of cancer figures marks an era of open data | Politics | The Observer Patients will be able to compare how well each GP performs in saving the lives of people with cancer after the government announces the release online of a new wave of data. Survival rates within every practice in England and Wales will be available, along with details on how many patients are urgently referred to cancer consultants and the number of patients they successfully diagnose. The figures, released as part of the "open government" agenda, will be updated regularly as they change. At the same time, data about primary care trusts will be released, allowing patients to compare survival rates in different parts of the country. Ministers believe the radical move will drive up standards of care as people will be able to see variations between GP practices and turn their backs on those whose performance has cost lives. It is understood that the Ministry of Justice is examining whether to open the court service to more scrutiny than ever before, by publishing judges' sentencing remarks.
The Curious Case of EBook Sharing Sites The popularity of ebooks has skyrocketed in the last few years. The Association of American Publishers reports that eBook sales by US publishers were up 300% in 2011: Total eBook net sales revenue for 2011 was $21.5 million, a gain of 332.6% over 2010; this represents 3.4 million eBook units sold in 2011, up 303.3 %. (Source) With this increase has come the usual hand-wringing over the end of print, the effects on book stores, access to books for people who can’t afford e-readers, the problems caused by DRM and the demise of the First-sale Doctrine (which says you can sell second-hand books, DVDs, videos, etc.), and so forth. These are all worth investigation, but I’ve become interested in two specific effects of this shift. First, the enormous rise in erotica sales and the ability of unknown authors without agents or publishers to publish ebooks cheaply and easily. Second, the ebook sharing underground: a loose network of sites that let people swap ebooks without DRM. Like this:
Social Media Data : quelle valorisation des données ? La numérisation des informations combinée à l’adoption massive des réseaux sociaux a fait exploser le volume des données, amenant de nombreux domaines d’activités à développer l’analyse statistique. Marketing, sociologie, production de contenus : la masse de données issues des conversations en ligne constitue une mine d’or pour qui sait les valoriser. Entre business intelligence et web analytics Les parcours de navigation, les clics, les conversations sur les réseaux sociaux, l’UGC (User Generated Content) : autant d’informations que les entreprises cherchent à croiser avec leurs données internes sur un produit ou un service. @Mesagraph récupère données sur twitter, comprend le sens des messages, les mots utilisés et les personnes décrites dans ces messages #SMCF— SMCFrance (@SMCFrance) Mai 15, 2012 Le potentiel du backchannel Comme la finance et le sport, la télévision est un domaine d’activité particulièrement consommateur de données. Social data : le pouls de la TV
The Secrets to Ebook Publishing Success — A book by Mark Coker Also in Smashwords Guides Reviews Review by: Geetanjali Mukherjee on Jan. 04, 2014 : Packed with useful tips, I was pleasantly surprised by how useful this book is. I am still working through the suggestions, doing as Mark suggests, to implement the easy tips first. I highly recommend this to any author of e-books, not necessary only for those published on Smashwords. Review by: David Dockery on Aug. 07, 2013 : I was really impressed with the information here and I am sold on publishing with smashwords. Review by: J. Plenty of good information here, but the book would strongly benefit from a re-write - it's plagued by arguments ended in mid-thought, lack of internal transition between thoughts in paragraphs, missing words, many sections that simply repeat or rehash previous sections, and so on. Review by: Paul Morrison on June 12, 2013 : It is certainly the right material to anyone in the e-book business to read. Review by: Adra Young on May 27, 2013 : Great, practical advice.
Tim Berners-Lee: demand your data from Google and Facebook | Technology Tim Berners-Lee, the father of the world wide web, has urged internet users to demand their personal data from online giants such as Google and Facebook to usher in a new era of highly personalised computer services "with tremendous potential to help humanity". Berners-Lee, the British born MIT professor who invented the web three decades ago, says that while there has been an explosion of public data made available in recent years, individuals have not yet understood the value to them of the personal data held about them by different web companies. In an interview with the Guardian, Berners-Lee said: "My computer has a great understanding of my state of fitness, of the things I'm eating, of the places I'm at. Exploiting such data could provide hugely useful services to individuals, he said, but only if their computers had access to personal data held about them by web companies. "It's interesting that people throughout the existence of the web have been concerned about monopolies.
Penguin joins push for short ebooks Angry Birds on the way to work, or half an hour with Helen Dunmore, Julian Barnes or Emma Donoghue? A slew of short, digital-only reads is hitting the market this Christmas as publishers look to tempt the time-poor back to books. The Penguin Shorts progamme, a collection of short digital reads, has just launched with nine titles, ranging from a creepy short story by Dunmore to an essay on multiculturalism from Elif Shafak, accounts of the battles of Alamein and Isandlwana, recipes for the perfect Christmas day from Felicity Cloake and a novella by Anita Brookner. Toby Young has written an essay on How To Set Up a Free School, John Gapper an analysis of rogue trading, Colm Tóibín a memoir of growing up in Ireland. Priced at £1.99 – "approximately the same price as a cup of coffee," says Penguin – the ebooks are available across all digital formats, each emblazoned with the iconic tri-band design with which Allen Lane launched Penguin's paperbacks back in 1935.
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