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Digital Publishing Tools

Digital Publishing Tools. The “e” adventure. Date : 13 March 2013. Tonight. Potluck! Project Review (y’all talk, max 5 min) ePublishing (the “book” kind) What comes next?. Potluck!. I will show you how to manage your blog so that you don’t need the folder in the URL….

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Digital Publishing Tools

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  1. Digital Publishing Tools The “e” adventure Date : 13 March 2013

  2. Tonight • Potluck! • Project Review (y’all talk, max 5 min) • ePublishing (the “book” kind) • What comes next?

  3. Potluck! I will show you how to manage your blog so that you don’t need the folder in the URL…

  4. We’ll go alpha by first name unless you want to draw straws • Highlights! You have only 5 minutes! • I will be “Vanna” and bring sites up on the screen Projects

  5. The market • The tools • What comes next… FromBlogTo eBook

  6. 1. The Market • Amazon (Kindle – 55% share mid-2012) • iTunes Store (iOS – 17%) • Barnes and Noble (Nook – 14%) • Desktop/Laptop (6%) • Everyone else …

  7. Amazon (2011)

  8. Amazon (2012)

  9. Amazon (2013) “[O]ur physical book sales experienced the lowest December growth rate in our 17 years as a book seller, up just 5 percent” but ebook sales have grown 70% in three years” - Bezos

  10. Apple • 270 million ebookssold in 16 months(June 2011-Oct 2012) • That’s 17M/mo • ~24% of total market

  11. Barnes & Noble • 4th Quarter 2012: Digital content sales rose 7% but Nook revenue fell 25.9% with a loss of $190.4 million – Reuters • B&N continues to lose money, not unlike newspaper companies

  12. 2. The Tools • Readers: iPad, Kindle (b/w + Fire), Kobo, Libre, Nook, Sony… • Writers: Scrivener, Evernote, 750Words • Creators: iBooks Author, InDesign

  13. Writers: Scrivener • Helps you organize your writing (and your research) in chunks • Educational license

  14. Writers: Evernote • Cloud based memory system • Freemium

  15. Writers: 750words “Because 750 words is nothing to sneeze at, it's also nice to have an easy way to know how many words you have to go. This site of course tracks your word count at all times and lets you know when you've passed the blessed 750 mark. And it gives you a nice big screen to write on, automatically scrolls as you write (like a typewriter), and automatically saves your writing as you go.”

  16. Creators: Apple iBooks Author • Designed for multi-touch books • Structured material • Complex graphics and layouts • Interactivity • Free; iTunes-only sales • Lynda.com tutorial • Take Control of iBooks Author multi-touch sample • Take Control of iBooks Author sample pdf

  17. Creators: InDesign • Must use styles in your Word doc • Adobe video podcast: instant InDesign for ePubs • YouTube 3minute video (assumes you already know how to use InDesign – a non-trivial assumption) • Flipick is an InDesign converter

  18. What comes next? • Write, write, write • Refine theme (tweaks – I can help) • Refine project focus (mailing list – help one another) • Think about your business (Peter’s class)

  19. Contact • Kathy E Gill • kegill at uw dot edu or gmail or @kegill • http://uwdigipub.wordpress.com/ • http://faculty.u.washington.edu/kegill

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