Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off online

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Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia’s Content Acquisition

Senior Publishing Executive Joins
World's Largest Online Library - Hiring
of Publishing Industry Veteran, Richard
Koffler, Signals Strong Growth Plans for
Questia’s Content Acquisition 06/03/2004 02:08 AM
Publishing industry insider, Richard Koffler, joins Questia, the world's largest online library, to aggressively grow the Questia collection of 49,000 books and 390,000 articles. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2004]

A New Approach to Computer Book
Publishing

A New Approach to Computer Book
Publishing 01/24/2003 10:26 AM
A New Approach to Computer Book Publishing Marco over at PHP Arch is talking about a new approach to computer book publishing, focusing on online books that cover detailed aspects of PHP (think about a mini book just on GD). [_Go_] Bias Note: Marco did ask me if I want to be an author in this series but I haven't made any committments or even thought about if I'm really interested. I do think that Marco has a good idea here and one that is long overdue. I'm tired of books that try to cover everything and leave out what I need. If I get a review copy when it comes out then I'll review it here.

IBM Partners with Pearson for Book
Publishing (Reuters)

IBM Partners with Pearson for Book
Publishing (Reuters) 07/26/2004 04:18 PM
Reuters - International Business Machines Corp. (IBM.N) said it formed a joint venture with Pearson Education as its global publisher and distributor for the books on technology and business IBM Press puts out every year.

SCO Copies from Book, Settles with
Publishing Company

SCO Copies from Book, Settles with
Publishing Company 05/12/2004 01:20 AM
The SCO Group won't be going to court over chapters of a system administration book it copied without permission.

Do-it-yourself publishing takes off on
the Internet

Do-it-yourself publishing takes off on
the Internet 09/24/2004 03:45 AM
Seattle Times Sep 24 2004 8:26AM GMT

Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward

Open Access Publishing Takes Another
Step Forward 06/17/2005 05:02 PM

Science Commons - a new project of Creative Commons that works to encourage sharing of scientific and academic knowledge - has launched an Open Access Law Program. The Program is designed to make legal scholarship "open access," that is freely available online to everyone, without undue copyright and licensing restrictions. The Program involves an Open Access Law Author Pledge, Open Access Law Principles and an Open Access Law Model Publication Agreement.Our very own Chairman & CEO, Lawrence Lessig, is one of the first signatories to the Open Access Law Author Pledge. In addition, 21 important law reviews have adopted the Open Access Principles, or have policies that are consistent with them. Leading journals like such as Michigan Law Review, Animal Law, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Indiana Law Journal, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Michigan State Law Review and, New York Law School Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Wayne Law Review and Michigan State Law Review have signed on, as have all of the journals published by Duke Law School and Villanova Law School. More information about the Program is available at the Science Commons Program page. The Program is one part of the Science Commons Publishing Project, which is working to support open access to scholarly research in a wide range of disciplines including agriculture, entomology, biology, anthropology and now law.

Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews

Holt Uncensored :: A Candid Look at
Books and the Book Industry : Publishing
News : Booksellers : Bookstores :
Reviews Interviews 01/19/2004 06:13 AM
Ten Mistakes Writers Don't See (But Can Easily Fix When They Do) .. The full article .. 10 §ª¨§‡

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PUBLISHING
YOUR OWN BOOK

PUBLISHING
YOUR OWN BOOK 03/06/2004 02:08 AM

The New York Times recently wrote a stor y about self-publishing, noting that it's come a long way from the old, expensive, disreputable 'vanity publishing' scams of a few years ago. Some major publishing houses now have a stake in the leading so-called 'print on demand' (POD) publishers, and although it's still a one-in-a-million proposition, a few self-published books have made the leap to best sellers (though average sales is only 150). Mostly, these successes have come from the author's own initiatives, using viral marketing, and primarily from online sales. The 'Big 3' in POD publishing are: Borders Group/Random House (Xlibris -- $500 for graphics, proofreading, an ISBN number, LOC registration, copyright, online sales page, and a listing in major book vendors' catalogues and online sites; softcover) 1stBooks ($698 for graphics, extensive marketing support, an ISBN number, LOC registration, copyright, online sales; softcover or hardcover) Barnes & Noble (iUniverse -- $459 for cover graphics, marketing toolkit, 5 free copies, an ISBN number, LOC registration, copyright, and a listing in major book vendors' catalogues and online sites; softcover) All three vendors also offer more extended services (hard copy, promotion etc.) at an extra charge, all three offer a pdf e-book version of your work, and with all three you retain ownership of the work, so you can shop it to a mainstream publisher later at no additional cost. Here is a table the Times provided with more information: I've been giving some though to who to get to publish my book, when it's finished in June. I'm partial to New Society Publishers, since they promote themselves as 'The Activist Publisher' and publish exclusively "Books to Build a New Society". They were the printers of Radical Simplicity, and they're Canadian to boot. But one way or another, my book is going to see the light of day, and if that means self-publishing, so be it. I know many bloggers have aspirations to land a book contract, and a few that I know have succeeded, though some of these contracts are a lot more generous than others, and none are for what I'd call big money. What do you think? Do you have dreams of publishing your work in more than the emphemeral world of the blogosphere? If so, would you self-publish? How would you get around the challenge that faces all new writers (exactly the same paradox that faces new university graduates looking for work): If you haven't already been published, no one will publish you.

Online Publishing Discussion List

Online Publishing Discussion List 04/09/2004 04:02 PM

Marketing Wonk has changed their name (again) to MarketingVox. Apparently "wonk" has a negative connotation to some people. As part of the change, the "I-" series of discussion lists are being changed to reflect the new branding. So I-Sales becomes MarketingVox Commerce and the other lists have similar changes. I-Blog, the list I moderate, not only has a new name, but a new editorial focus as well. Rather than just discussing blogs in business, we’re now talking about all sorts of online publishing. I-Blog is now MarketingVox Publishing.

If you have a question about CMSs, want to talk about the best content strategies to increase sales leads, or are wondering about the changing business model for online newspapers, MV|Publishing is the place to do it.

We Blog: Publishing Online with Webl0gs

We Blog: Publishing Online with Webl0gs 03/30/2005 05:47 PM

Free For All? The Science of Publishing
Research Online

Free For All? The Science of Publishing
Research Online 06/11/2004 05:01 AM
Ecmag.net - Fri Jun 11, 07:35 am GMT

Cleveland Editor Takes Heat for
Publishing Gun List (Editor and
Publisher)

Cleveland Editor Takes Heat for
Publishing Gun List (Editor and
Publisher) 07/30/2004 03:52 PM
Editor and Publisher - NEW YORK Why did a pro-gun group post directions to a local newspaper editor's house on its Web site?

Yahoo! takes a leaf out of Google's book

Yahoo! takes a leaf out of Google's book 11/04/2003 05:16 AM
Silicon.com Nov 4 2003 4:10AM ET

Online Collaboration, Independent
Publishing, Privacy and Security on New
Media and ICT

Online Collaboration, Independent
Publishing, Privacy and Security on New
Media and ICT 02/13/2004 07:47 PM
http://www.masternewmedia.org/index.html "What Communication Experts Need To Know"... - Independent Publishing - Online Collaboration - Learning - Ed Tech - Information Design - User Interface - Technology Support One of the coolest discoveries I have made in a long, long time….. What is Robin Good Robin Good is an online resource offering knowledge, tools and advice on the effective use of new media technologies for...

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from
publishing own work online

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from
publishing own work online 04/02/2005 09:18 AM

Xeni @ Boing Boing Blog

Shirky: stupid (c) laws block me from publishing own work online

Clay Shirky tells Boing Boing:

Welcome to the Copyfight. So, at Etech this year, I gave a talk entitled Ontology is Overrated. I want to put a transcript up online, and Mary Hodder, who recorded the talk, graciously agreed to give me a copy of the video.

When she came by NYC last week, she dropped off a DVD, which I then wanted to convert to AVI (the format used by my transcription service.) I installed ffmpeg and tried to convert the material, at which point I got an error message which read "To comply with copyright laws, DVD device input is not allowed." Except, of course, there are no copyright laws at issue here, since I'M THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER.

Got that? I am in possession of a video, of me, shot by a friend, copied to a piece of physical media given to me as a gift. In the video, I am speaking words written by me, and for which I am the clear holder of the copyright. I am working with said video on a machine I own. Every modern legal judgment concerning copyright, from the Berne Convention to the Betamax case, is on my side. AND I CAN'T MAKE A COPY DIRECTLY FROM THE DEVICE. This is because copyright laws do not exist to defend the moral rights of copyright holders -- they exist to help enforce artificial scarcity.

Copyright holders in my position, who want to use Creative Commons licensing to share material, are treated as pathological cases, because we're not behaving in the extortionate manner that current regulations are designed to protect.

I've gotten the copy another way, and the transcript will go up, but this is the state of the world, circa 2005: I can be prevented from copying my own words from my own devices, precisely because I want to share them freely, a use the law is perfectly prepared to regard as irrelevant.

Yes. Welcome to the copyfight. The scary thing is that more and more people are beginning to think it is NORMAL not to be able to do what Clay is upset about not being able to do.

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Kelby book takes Benjamin Franklin award

Kelby book takes Benjamin Franklin award 06/22/2004 03:44 PM
Best-selling author Scott Kelby received the 2004 Benjamin Franklin Award for Outstanding Design in the combined professional, technical and computer category from the Publishers Marketing Association for his popular title "The Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers."...

Turbine acquires publishing rights to
its upcoming game Middle Earth Online

Turbine acquires publishing rights to
its upcoming game Middle Earth Online 03/24/2005 08:50 AM
Masshightech.com - Wed Mar 23, 07:15 pm GMT

New Entertainment Company Joins Video
Publishing Revolution with Contest for
Free Online TV Shows

New Entertainment Company Joins Video
Publishing Revolution with Contest for
Free Online TV Shows 04/14/2005 03:55 AM
Tired of watching the same old stuff on broadcast and cable television? Start your own online TV series, with free production, at MyTVonline, a new entertainment company that believes there's better television to be had in the grass roots of the web, than in the 500 channels of satellite TV. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

"BOOK TAKES ON CONVENTIONAL WISDOM:
'CONNECTION' ARGUES VAST TIES BETWEEN
OSAMA AND SADDAM..."

"BOOK TAKES ON CONVENTIONAL WISDOM:
'CONNECTION' ARGUES VAST TIES BETWEEN
OSAMA AND SADDAM..." 05/29/2004 04:47 PM

Online! The Book

Online! The Book 12/03/2003 01:25 PM

Book Online or Pay

Book Online or Pay 08/29/2004 07:25 AM
Washingtonpost.com - Sun Aug 29, 05:00 am GMT

Boing Boing: Shirky: stupid (c) laws
block me from publishing own work online

Boing Boing: Shirky: stupid (c) laws
block me from publishing own work online 04/01/2005 05:23 PM
Clay Shirky rants about the absurd US copyright laws that are preventing him from copying his own media .. Clay Shirky tried to use some crippled software to rip a DVD, and it didn't work .. Boing Boing

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Online Address Book

Online Address Book 04/22/2004 10:52 PM
Version 0.6.0 Released

Book of Lists now available online

Book of Lists now available online 07/19/2004 06:24 AM
Thestate.com - Mon Jul 19, 07:13 am GMT

Online Google Book

Online Google Book 12/10/2003 11:29 AM
Tony Perkins at AlwaysOn is writing a book online about Google, soliciting ideas, information and comments from readers: The goal is to finish the book in the next 60 days, speed-produce it, and get it to market before the Google IPO, to complement the company's red herring prospectus. Interesting project....

Mac Tip: Put Your .Mac Address Book
Online

Mac Tip: Put Your .Mac Address Book
Online 08/02/2004 08:27 PM
G4 Tech TV Aug 3 2004 0:32AM GMT

Steal this book online

Steal this book online 11/11/2003 08:11 AM
Copyright attorney Doug Isenberg examines whether Amazon.com inadvertently opened a digital Pandora's box.

Book online and you'll save $5

Book online and you'll save $5 09/18/2004 08:34 PM
US News Sep 18 2004 11:26PM GMT

Online Book Exchange

Online Book Exchange 11/01/2003 05:18 AM
BookEX version 0.7.4-devel released

book online in a bl0g format

book online in a bl0g format 08/11/2004 03:24 AM
Extreme Democracy

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How hard is it to put a book online,
legally?

How hard is it to put a book online,
legally? 04/09/2004 06:31 PM

Sometimes people ask us why we created the Creative Commons, and we often say that we wanted there to be an easy way for you to share your creations and also to build a large pool of creative work that is easy to redistribute, print, (and if the license allows) collage, remix, or even sell to others.

If you're wondering what the world without Creative Commons is like, check out this helpful primer on the question "How Can I Tell Whether a Book Can Go Online?" The answer, as you can see, is quite complicated, including the various laws around the world. The page doesn't mention CC, but if it did, one of the top bullets would be "look for a Creative Commons mark" and the permission and legal questions that take up the rest of the page would be solved.

The book 'Fishing Online: 1,000 Best
Web Sites' and box set

The book 'Fishing Online: 1,000 Best
Web Sites' and box set 05/12/2004 06:47 PM
ESPN-1 hour ago ... garbage. When I make a Google request to search the Web for "fishing," it tells me there are 25,900,000 pages of piscatorial pursuits. ...

Library goes online with book club

Library goes online with book club 04/01/2005 08:49 AM
Stamfordadvocate.com - Fri Apr 1, 11:02 am GMT

Used-book sales online getting attention

Used-book sales online getting attention 07/17/2004 06:26 AM
Seattlepi.nwsource.com - Sat Jul 17, 05:03 am GMT

Help us fine-tune our online book club

Help us fine-tune our online book club 04/12/2005 10:55 AM
Ohio.com - Tue Apr 12, 10:23 am GMT

ENOC takes online MBA

ENOC takes online MBA 04/11/2005 08:35 AM
Ameinfo.com - Mon Apr 11, 11:59 am GMT

Best Software Takes Its ACT! Online

Best Software Takes Its ACT! Online 03/14/2003 01:28 AM
Best Software is jumping on a growing trend in the small business space, online CRM, with the introduction of ACT! for Web, a contact management and sales force automation application that replicates the popular Windows-based program. Geared toward the small business CRM marketplace, its main lure is its very low price point.

Think.com takes kids online

Think.com takes kids online 12/04/2003 01:17 AM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 4 2003 0:11AM ET

Anti-Kerry book defaced at online store

Anti-Kerry book defaced at online store 08/09/2004 06:28 PM
The cover of "Unfit for Command" is altered on Barnesandnoble.com, as the battle over the senator's war record heats up.
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