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Date : 13 March 2013
Digital Publishing ToolsThe “e” adventure
Tonight
Potluck!
Project Review (y’all talk, max 5 min)
ePublishing (the “book” kind)
What comes next?
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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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Projects
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
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FromBlogTo eBook
The market
The tools
What comes next…
+1. The Market
Amazon (Kindle – 55% share mid-2012)
iTunes Store (iOS – 17%)
Barnes and Noble (Nook – 14%)
Desktop/Laptop (6%)
Everyone else …
+Amazon (2011)
+Amazon (2012)
+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
+Apple
270 million ebookssold in 16 months(June 2011-Oct 2012)
That’s 17M/mo
~24% of total market
+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
+2. The Tools
Readers: iPad, Kindle (b/w + Fire), Kobo, Libre, Nook, Sony…
Writers: Scrivener, Evernote, 750Words
Creators: iBooks Author, InDesign
+Writers: Scrivener
Helps you organize your writing (and your research) in chunks
Educational license
+Writers: Evernote
Cloud based memory system
Freemium
+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.”
+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
+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
+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)
+Contact
Kathy E Gill
kegill at uw dot edu or gmail or @kegill
http://uwdigipub.wordpress.com/
http://faculty.u.washington.edu/kegill