• Authors Innovate, Publishers Lumber Along

    Updated: 2012-10-31 15:45:33
    Barnes & Noble is trying to make inroads in the British market with its Nook e-reader. Although the chain doesn’t have a significant brick-and-mortar presence there, it sees the future of book-buying and that involves e-books. That’s a good thing. I’m still surprised that it’s taken so long… Read more   

  • California Digital Library Launches eScholarship PLUS

    Updated: 2012-10-31 14:12:20
    The California Digital Library has launched eScholarship PLUS. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The California Digital Library is pleased to announce a new print-on-demand (POD) and ebook distribution/sales service for books and journals published in eScholarship, the University of California's open access (OA) publishing platform. This service will enable publishing units within UC to [...]The post California Digital Library Launches eScholarship PLUS appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Library Server Specialist at California State University, Northridge Library

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:57:44
    The California State University, Northridge Library is recruiting a Library Server Specialist. Here's an excerpt from the ad: Under general supervision, the Library Server Specialist oversees the Linux servers run by the Oviatt Library; administers, programs, troubleshoots and maintains virtual servers provided by campus Information Technology; installs applications and patches; develops Bash, Perl, PHP and [...]The post Library Server Specialist at California State University, Northridge Library appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model

    Updated: 2012-10-31 13:35:57
    King's College London has released Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model. Here's an excerpt: This document synthesizes information from the whole Impact Assessment sector and then proposes the Balanced Value Impact Model as a means to effectively carry out an Impact Assessment relating to the benefits of digitization and digital [...]The post Measuring the Impact of Digital Resources: The Balanced Value Impact Model appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Marketing Your Book on Amazon

    Updated: 2012-10-30 23:43:05
    Home FREE Templates Get Published My 1 Recommendation 200+ Free Tools Book Marketing Marketing Your Book On Amazon 21 Things You Can Easily Do For Free to Gain More Exposure and Sales Get Your Copy FREE on Kindle 11 8 12 One Day Only PLUS Get 27 Worth of Products Free and Enter to Win Over 1400 Worth of Prizes scroll down for all the details I have just released a new book on Kindle to help authors market their books on Amazon . To celebrate this launch , I am offering it for FREE for one day only on Thursday 11 8 12. Make sure to download your free copy on November 8th here : Marketing Your Book On Amazon I wish I would have had this book four years ago It will help you optimize your book sales page , chose the best book categories and more setting up a solid foundation for all your

  • Thank you!

    Updated: 2012-10-30 22:39:25
    Home FREE Templates Get Published My 1 Recommendation 200+ Free Tools Book Marketing Return to Self Publishing Coach Homepage Get Published Watch Shelley's Self Publishing Seminar Click Here Welcome Home Blog FREE Templates My Products Tools I Use Site Map Books Self Publishing Books About Self Publishing Self Publishing Costs Book Template Book Cover Design Self Publishing Software Copy Editing Service Self Publishing Ebooks Kindle Ebook Template Children's Books ISBN Lookup and FAQ's Obtaining a Copyright Companies Self Publishing Companies My 1 Recommendation : Createspace Lulu Self Publishing Smashwords eBook Publishing Book Marketing Tools My Book Marketing Resources 200+ Free Book Marketing Tools Guest Blogging Kindle Publishing eBook Publishing eBook Cover TeleSeminars Twitter 101

  • Cultural Relevance and Actual Reality

    Updated: 2012-10-30 15:00:47
    Do you go to the movies anymore? If you’re like most people, probably not. You watch stuff on television (television has long been better than most contemporary films), or on your tablet or phone or laptop. Chances are you still read, but more likely on your tablet, laptop or phone.… Read more   

  • UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report

    Updated: 2012-10-30 14:03:34
    The University of North Texas Libraries have released the UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report. Here's the abstract: This report discusses Open Access (OA) funds created at universities in order to assist faculty authors with Article Processing Charges (APCs). Building on the research initiatives of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), thirty [...]The post UNT Libraries: Open Access Fund Research Report appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Will The Marriage Of Penguin & Random House Send Book Prices Soaring?

    Updated: 2012-10-29 19:18:46
    They’e going to the chapel and they’e gonna get married: Book publishers Penguin and Random House will become one after their parents company complete an upcoming merger. If the merging of companies in other industries is any...

  • Penguin Random House merger confirmed

    Updated: 2012-10-29 19:10:44
    Two of the world's biggest publishing houses are to link up in a deal that will bring the writings of classics like George Orwell's "1984" and this year's literary phenomenon "Fifty Shades of Grey" under one umbrella. Confirmation...

  • Top 10 Digital Publishing Tips

    Updated: 2012-10-29 14:00:07
    From what I've gathered over the last year or so regarding digital publishing, I got 10 top tips on how to do it successfully.

  • "Digitization of Cultural Heritage—Standards, Institutions, Initiatives"

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:04:49
    , , DigitalKoans What Is the Sound of One E-Print Downloading Digitization of Cultural Heritage—Standards , Institutions , Initiatives Kalina Sotirova , Juliana Peneva , Stanislav Ivanov , Rositza Doneva , and Milena Dobreva have self-archived Digitization of Cultural Heritage—Standards , Institutions , Initiatives in the NBU Scholar Electronic . Repository Here's an : excerpt The first chapter Digitization of Cultural Heritage—Standards , Institutions , Initiatives provides an introduction to the area of digitisation . The main pillars of process of creating , preserving and accessing of cultural heritage in digital space are observed . The importance of metadata in the process of accessing to information is outlined . The metadata schemas and standards used in cultural heritage are

  • "Evaluating Large Image Support for DSpace"

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:03:15
    Marius Nel, Kyle Williams and Hussein Suleman have self-archived "Evaluating Large Image Support for DSpace" in the UCT CS Research Document Archive. Here's an excerpt: Access to large images in digital libraries is desirable from a preservation perspective and may even be a requirement in some domains, such as cartography. However, providing access to large [...]The post "Evaluating Large Image Support for DSpace" appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Librarians at McGill University Library Adopt Open Access Policy

    Updated: 2012-10-29 13:01:18
    Librarians at the McGill University Library have adopted an open access policy. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: McGill librarians are granting the McGill University Library a nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to exercise any and all rights under copyright relating to their scholarly articles, in any medium, and to authorize others to do the same, [...]The post Librarians at McGill University Library Adopt Open Access Policy appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • The Consolidation of the Lumbering Giants of Publishing

    Updated: 2012-10-29 06:06:35
    If you can’t innovate, consolidate. That’s what two large publishers are doing as they face stiff competition from Amazon (as retailer, powerful publisher and enabler of increasingly popular self-publishing) and the world of e-books. Random House and Penguin Books will combine forces to battle the… what? The fact… Read more   

  • And so I bid Penguin a sad farewell

    Updated: 2012-10-29 04:19:50
    Champagne corks are not popping in the book world at news of the Penguin-Random House merger. There is no celebrating among competitors or authors, and the atmosphere at Penguin Towers and Random HQ is apparently one of deep gloom. Only the...

  • Current News: Twitter Updates for 10/28/12

    Updated: 2012-10-29 03:01:12
    Creative Commons and Open Access Critique Series, http://t.co/aCDH26XC What Authors Want From Open Access Publishing, http://t.co/RDsGeFeb Open Access Science Resources, http://t.co/psBtVlYE Is Open Access Open?, http://t.co/ye22uxEF 10,000,000,000,000,000 Bytes Archived!, http://t.co/IcC4ybD6 | Digital Scholarship |The post Current News: Twitter Updates for 10/28/12 appeared first on DigitalKoans.

  • Amazon Earnings Show Jeff Bezos Is Steve Jobs' Heir

    Updated: 2012-10-26 05:45:10
    Yesterday Amazon and Apple reported earnings at the same time, which made it even easier to contrast these two outstanding companies, especially now that they compete directly. I’e been beating the drum for a while that Jeff Bezos is...

  • Ignore the Doomsayers: The Book Industry Is Actually Adapting Well

    Updated: 2012-10-26 05:40:20
    Numbers show that the publishing industry is handling the rise of e-readers better than what folk knowledge might suggest. The fall publishing season is in full swing. There can hardly have been a year with more luminaries atop both the fiction...

  • Recommend What You Read

    Updated: 2012-10-25 16:29:00
    Offer your readers your opinions of books, articles and blogs. Especially books. Everyone, of course, is always asking friends for advice on this or that book. And all of us look at lists of recommendations. Some of us even take those recommendations and act on them. You’re in a position… Read more   

  • The Persistence of Paper

    Updated: 2012-10-24 18:24:31
    Books aren’t going away yet. That’s a good thing. But don’t think that because many people in their 20s still read books in the traditional format, that you can forget about going digital. You can’t. According to a Pew Research Study, 83 percent of Americans aged 16 to… Read more   

  • Orbit UK Multi-Author Signing – this Friday at Forbidden Planet London!

    Updated: 2012-10-24 11:43:00
    After the success of our summer signing last year, we’re delighted to be teaming up with Forbidden Planet once again for another big signing event. This Friday (26 October) SF authors Charles Stross and Michael Cobley, and urban fantasy …

  • E-Book Prices Fluctuate, and That’s a Good Thing

    Updated: 2012-10-23 18:08:17
    Pricing is important for e-books. Big publishers charge more, self-published authors charge less. It will probably be that way for a while. Big publishers have larger overhead and, at least for the foreseeable future, bigger-name authors whose works can command higher list prices. According to an article on  Digital Book… Read more   

  • Take Advantage of the Speed of E-Publishing

    Updated: 2012-10-22 17:25:00
    Consider releasing your work in pieces. Once you’ve got a chunk of your book done, put it up there – utilize the power of e-publishing to continue to broaden your reach. You can also repurpose your work – from existing articles, or newsletters or research you’ve done – to find… Read more   

  • The Newsweekly Fades

    Updated: 2012-10-18 20:13:11
    Another print icon will disappear. Newsweek, the 80-year-old magazine, will stop publishing a print edition at the end of the year, but continue with online versions. When was the last time you picked up a physical copy of Newsweek? Or Time? Or any number of other newsweeklies? Probably… Read more   

  • Family Obligations and Networking: Men vs. Women

    Updated: 2012-10-18 14:30:37
    I’ve run the world’s largest networking organization for many years and occasionally I hear people express concern about family obligations interfering with their ability to attend business meetings. Earlier this year I published a large scale survey that addressed gender issues in networking.  I was expecting to… Read more   

  • New to Gail Carriger?

    Updated: 2012-10-15 19:40:16
    Get acquainted with Orbit author Gail Carriger in the most recent episode of Sword & Laser! Gail joined Veronica and Tom for tea and to talk about her Parasol Protectorate series (starting with SOULLESS [US | UK | …

  • Know Me - Know My Work: Garner Trust and a Sale is Eminent!

    Updated: 2012-10-15 01:57:07
    : Home FREE Templates Get Published My 1 Recommendation 200+ Free Tools Book Marketing Know Me Know My Work : Garner Trust and a Sale is Eminent by Martha Jette Hamilton , Ontario , Canada Glimpses II : it could happen to you Every author knows that it's much easier to write a book and get it published than it is to market the book for potential readers and purchasers . The most important thing authors can do is make sure to join social sites where people can get to know them and their . work This does not just mean the usual ones like Facebook and . MySpace The one that really started me off on this route was Ryze.com . The set-up of the page lends itself easily to sharing both information and pictures related to your book and your life in general . Ryze also has many groups you can join

  • Gill & Macmillan Launch New Range of Mini eCookbooks

    Updated: 2012-10-05 01:42:39
    Taking advantage of flexible digital platforms, Gill & Macmillan has launched a series of new ‘bite-sized’ ecooksbooks based on their newly released Sophie Kooks by Sophie Morris. The monthly ebooks will be priced at €1.99. Readers will be able to download the ecookbooks in seasonal chunks, that each month for the next year. The first of the [...]

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