Open Source E-Publishing Tools
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With tectonic changes taking place in the print publishing industry, we will soon see a redefinition of what the terms "publish" and "book" mean. Aimed at product managers of open source projects, this session will teach anyone how to "publish" a "book" using open source tools. Participants will gain practical formatting and distribution knowledge necessary to publish their own ebooks.
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- 4. Room: D136
- 7. The long tail of publishing
- 8. Just what is e-publishing?
- 9. What's in your tool box?
- 10. Ye old crystal ball...
- 11. Revolution
- 13. A market worth pursuing
- 15. In 2004 of 1.2 m tracked by Nielson bookscan:
- 16. Average book sells 500 copies
- 18. Advertisement
- 19. Book as souvenir
- 23. Democratize channels of distribution
- 27. PDF File
- 28. E-book compatible with e-readers (iPad, Nook, Kindle, etc.)
- 29. Blog
- 30. Tweet
- 32. Content is “the message”
- 34. Adobe Portable Document Format
- 35. ____________ (Your favorite HTML/CSS Editor)
- 37. Inkscape
- 38. Audacity
- 39. Handbrake
- 45. Include your website URL
- 48. Creating a mood.
- 49. Provoking thought or emotion.
- 50. Color Magic Energy, Passion, Power, Excitement Wisdom, Playful, Satisfying, Optimistic Honesty, Integrity, Trustworthiness Easiness, Passivity Happy, Confident, Creative, Adventurous Health, Contentment, Harmony Mystic, Beauty, Inspiration Finality, Transitional Color
- 60. IRC Logs
- 61. Meeting notes
- 62. Skpe recordings
- 65. HTML5
- 66. Tablets lead to paper
- 67. XML – Open content
- 72. OpenOffice.org 2.x Writer Guide: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide
- 73. Paul Graham - Post-Medium Publishing: http://www.paulgraham.com/publishing.html
- 75. SourceForge Directory: http://sourceforge.net
- 76. 764K Self published books - http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publishing-and-marketing/article/42826-self-published-titles-topped-764-000-in-2009-as-traditional-output-dipped.html
Editor's Notes
- “iPad's Dirty Little Secret to Success: Porn (SFW) “ - http://www.fastcompany.com/1559009/porn-the-secret-reason-apples-ipad-will-rock
- Gutenberg invented the printing press around 1439
- 98% of all books are NON-COMMERCIAL
- A staggering 764,448 titles were produced in 2009 by self-publishers and micro-niche publishers, according to statistics released this morning by R.R. Bowker. The number of "nontraditional" titles dwarfed that of traditional books whose output slipped to 288,355 last year from 289,729 in 2008. Taken together, total book output rose 87% last year, to over 1 million books. From Twitter: “ @iaindodsworth: 70% of young Kenyans use social media, 80% have mobile phones - only 50% have an indoor toilet #activate2010 #futurepub”
- Export as PDF options: (General, Initial View, User Interface, and Security) General options all you to choose which pages to include in the PDF, the type of compression to use for images (which affects the quality of images in the PDF), and other options. Initial view options allow you to choose how the PDF opens by default in a PDF viewer (such as which panes are displayed, the magnification, and the page layout. User Interfac e options allow you to choose more settings to control how a PDF viewer displays the file. Some of these choices are particularly useful when you are creating a PDF to be used as a presentation or a kiosk-type display. Security options allow you to encrypt the PDF (so it cannot be opened without a password) and apply some digital rights management (DRM) features.
- Remember that you're selling on the Internet, so the cover needs to be legible even at a thumbnail size Decide what you want the reader to see or read first and position it accordingly