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The slides are also contributed by Mark Patterson, Björn Brembs, and Peter Binfield.
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See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/talks/panel/
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About the Webinar
In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user separate the wheat from the chaff? This webinar will explore these issues and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and libraries.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
When Authors Assume Their Own Risk
Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker
Self-Publishing with Smashwords
Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
Allison Brown, Editor & Production Manager, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
Talk by Ramy K. Aziz in the second TWAS/BioVisionAlexandria.NXT in Alexandria- Egypt (10-11 April 2010) about "Open Acess and The Next Revolution in Scholarly Publishing".
The slides are also contributed by Mark Patterson, Björn Brembs, and Peter Binfield.
Panel session on “Avoiding Portal Wars” given at the IWMW 2002 event.
See http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/events/workshops/webmaster-2002/talks/panel/
This presentation by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, examines the future of book publishing. The presentation was given at the Fremont Writers chapter of the California Writers Club on December 8, 2012.
How to Reach More Readers with Self-Published EbooksSmashwords, Inc.
This presentation was given by Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, at Self Publishing Boot Camp in San Francisco on February 18. The presentation summarizes the best practices of the most successful self-published ebook authors.
About the Webinar
In the six years from 2006 to 2012, the number of self-published books grew an astounding 270% to more than 235,000, almost as many as were published "traditionally." The easy access to publication tools and distribution mechanisms has ushered in a new era of how content is created and disseminated. No longer do authors need to work through a publisher to have their content accepted, processed, and distributed. The impacts of this revolution in publishing extend well beyond what used to be called "vanity publishing." A variety of best-selling books in recent years have come out from successful self-publishers sharing their tips on how others can follow in their footsteps.
How can publishers capitalize on this author independence? How do libraries incorporate self-published works into their acquisition processes? When there is no publisher reputation behind a title, how does a library or user separate the wheat from the chaff? This webinar will explore these issues and the impacts of the self-publishing movement on both publishers and libraries.
Agenda
Introduction
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO
When Authors Assume Their Own Risk
Laura Dawson, Product Manager for Identifiers, Bowker
Self-Publishing with Smashwords
Mark Coker, Founder, CEO and Chief Author Advocate, Smashwords
Helping Libraries Help Themselves: The Library Publishing Toolkit
Allison Brown, Editor & Production Manager, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo
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This three-part presentation outlines the opportunity for libraries to expand their community role by developing programs that promote a culture of authorship. By holding seminars and classes, and by bringing local authors together with readers and aspiring authors, Libraries are uniquely qualified to orchestrate community resources and talent to help local writers become professional self-publishers. Unlike traditional publishers, self-published authors are pro-library. By developing community publishing initiatives that promote best-practices for professional self-publishing, libraries will help ensure a steady and diverse supply of high-quality books for library patrons and readers worldwide.
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4. Family histories
Memoirs
Local histories
Specialized hobbies
Teen and adult writing circles
Many possibilities
5. Traditional: Publishing in
microform (fiche, film, etc.)
Current: Publishing for a very
narrow niche.
Micropublishing
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7. All you need is Word.
Or for free: LibreOffice or OpenOffice—not
quite as good.
Templates: free.
Nopublishing costs except optional test copy.
No upfront costs
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12. Vanity publishing: Big bucks, claimed real
publishing, no promotion or bookstore sales.
Micropublishing: No bucks, you’re the
publisher, optional extras.
Self publishing: Traditionally, big bucks. Now,
micropublishing can do it for less.
Vanity, self or micro?
13. Passive: Provide the book.
Supportive: Help build editing/writing circles.
Active: Library as micropublisher
Academic libraries: Print versions of library-
published ejournals? Virtual academic presses?
Library roles for micropublishing
15. You’re always using styles and templates—
whether you know it or not.
Styles aid consistency and make for easy
change.
Overcome stylephobia
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25. Walt Crawford:
waltcrawford@gmail.com
Blog: Walt at Random,
walt.lishost.org
Ejournal: Cites & Insights,
citesandinsights.info
Thank you!
Editor's Notes
Presentation for IL2012 session A103
Monhegan Memorial Library, Maine, serves 69 people (plus seasonal population)
Savonburg Public Library in Kansas serves 86 people.
Tens of millions of likely use cases: Library patrons with the urge and ability to write a book but don’t anticipate big sales or have big $$ to risk.
Micropublishing used to have a specific meaning. I’m using a substantially different meaning, one that’s been gaining currency.
From Information Today, Inc., January 2012, a concise paperback (also available in hardcover via Lulu) that explains how—and uses the tools it discusses.
Anna Julia Young’s Autobiography: Before micropublishing
After: Cover of micropublished book
After: Page of micropublished book
After: Another page of micropublished book
Cynics call micropublishing vanity publishing. That’s unfortunate. Vanity publishing is by its nature a ripoff—promising something it doesn’t deliver, at a high price for authors. True micropublishing doesn’t promise things it doesn’t deliver: You pay for extra services only if you want them.
Get the words right. What more to say? (Oh, and don’t use Comic Sans for micropublished books.)
You can’t use Word without using styles and templates—but understanding styles and templates can let Word do more of the work and help assure consistent formatting.
When you use heading styles, you can use Word as an outline processor—moving sections of text or headings for new sections around. [The line breaks after numbers are because this is actually the manuscript for the book Give Us a Dollar and We’ll Give You Back Four (2012-13), and those are chapter headings.]
The August 2012 Cites & Insights using the standard C&I template, CI12. (Note that the banner is actually part of the template itself.)
Same content, different template: The “CION” template, to provide a single-column 6x9” PDF designed for comfortable reading on screens. I just open an instance of the new template, insert the text from the prepared document (and strip out the wide banner), and I’m done…except for moving and revising the contents table to suit the smaller pages. Time to prepare this version: Maybe five minutes. Maybe less.
And the HTML version of the same essay. I have a “WEB” template, and just insert a new banner, then the content. Maybe another five minutes. Word produces decent, not great, filtered HTML.
Once you’re using styles, specifically heading styles, you also get a table of contents with little or no efforts. Note the leftmost (red-circled) item in the References ribbon. Once generated, a two-click process, you can update the contents table as content changes with another single right-click.
This example shows ligatures (supported in Word2010 if you choose to enable them and if the typeface has them) in Palatino Linotype—see the Q, the “st” combinations and others—but also kerning issues: While “AV” is kerned, Palatino lacks “Vo” kerning. Many typefaces have better kerning; few standard ones have ligatures.
Sample of a bad break: A short word falling on its own line at the end of a paragraph.
The same paragraph with text condensed by 0.1 points: The bad break’s gone and few if any readers will notice the tighter spacing, since it’s applied over the entire paragraph.
If Word’s too rich for your blood, LibreOffice will give you about 90% of the same support—and I’ve produced a LibreOffice book template that’s a little simpler than the Word one, but works quite well. (OpenOffice and LibreOffice use the same templates, but OpenOffice is still Big Software, namely Oracle, even if it is open source.)
As an infrequent speaker (these days) who rarely uses Powerpoint, I’m not sure about the rules for cat pictures in library presentations, so just to play it safe, that’s Sam, our elder cat, with obvious Maine Coon heritage and acclaimed by multiple vets as having the softest hair of any cat. Thank you for listening.