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K Sawyer Paul

A book-related dating service

Borders UK setting up a dating service on its website: Yet another big player in the British book business is setting up a dating service: Borders UK has announced “Happily Ever After,” an online ...

Started by K Sawyer Paul in Published Books 1 day ago.

K Sawyer Paul

A History of Future Publishing

by Giles Slade: What I want to see is an e-Book that is no longer a simulacrum of a printed work. Soon, when people begin writing exclusively for eBooks, book metaphors like pagination will lose t...

Started by K Sawyer Paul in Published Books 1 day ago.

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Myebook.com - fast, professional ebooks in your browser, but is that how you want to read? 4 Replies

Here at Gredunza we're always on the lookout for interesting new technology in which to highlight independent reading and research, which is why myebook.com sparked my interest. The basic idea, sim...

Started by K Sawyer Paul in News, Links, and Discussions. Last reply by tubejay 1 day ago.

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The Espresso Book Machine Priced, expected to sell

According to New York Magazine, several bookstores in the states are already planning on purchasing the Espresso book machine when it becomes available in the fall. It currently costs around $75,00...

Started by K Sawyer Paul in News, Links, and Discussions Jun 29.

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Print on Demand suggestions, advice, and explanations

We here can of course explain the benefits of print on demand tech, but it's sometimes nice to hear someone else's perspective. The Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc, posted this...

Started by K Sawyer Paul in News, Links, and Discussions Jun 27.

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tubejay

fun publishing-related links

(including open-licensed book downloads)

http://www.sofobomo.org/2009/browse/completed-books/

the above link probably has mostly closed-license books, i only know of one that is cc-licensed for certain.

Posted by tubejay on July 4, 2009 at 8:00am

tubejay

here's a very nasty argument

1. money alone determines worth. (don't believe it? sometimes more people will buy a product if you simply up the price.)

2. that which you own costs nothing. (it costs you nothing to buy it anyway. you may pay to maintain a car, but the moment it's "used," it's worth so much less. buy new!)

3. everything you own is worthless.

...nasty, nasty argument. granted people have a lot of worthless stuff. the problem is when the argument goes from "some stuff's worthless" to "everything is worthless.… Continue

Posted by tubejay on June 30, 2009 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

tubejay

copyleft- the red pill

the thing about conspiracies is that when the lights dim and the projector starts, we're going to get a story with more intrigue than enlightenment. that's entertainment, and it has a place in the world. sometimes, it's the only reason people are aware of a certain issue.

truth is stranger than fiction, and some of the ugliest conspiracies we know of- for example, the copyright conspiracy, have less to do i think with concerted evils and smoke filled rooms and more to do with instinct, careless… Continue

Posted by tubejay on June 29, 2009 at 4:30pm

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It can take a long, long time to become a successful writer

As John Scalzi explains. This is a fantastic blog post by him that everyone should read. Choice quote:

2. Most people’s first novels well and truly suck. Oh my, yes they do. Which again is perfectly fine. Writing anything over 60,000 words that still recognizably tells one single story is a hell of an achievement in itself. Asking that it also be good is just being mean to the author, and theContinue

Posted by K Sawyer Paul on June 29, 2009 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

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The beauty of not owning books

Here's a completely different take on the ebook argument. All too often, we are bludgeoned with the importance of "owning" your digital products. DRM is the devil. We live in an age of leased items, and the only things we truly own are from a previous generations' tech. Tapes. Records. physical books. But what if this progression into a leased world is actually, well, progress?

That's what… Continue

Posted by K Sawyer Paul on June 29, 2009 at 12:35pm — 1 Comment

tubejay

here is something i need help writing

i'm not asking for friendly advice here... i have been totally unable to express the following clearly. i wouldn't think so. i totally get the "for dummies" concept. just because i know something doesn't mean you know the same thing. (if k sawyer talks about publishing he's going to be talking about things i don't understand yet, or maybe as a writer he's just better at explaining them.) i've even explained the following to tech saavy friends that don't get what i'm about to say. if anyone here… Continue

Posted by tubejay on June 29, 2009 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Maddison Barksdale

My 'New' Story - Seeing Alice -

Yeah, yeah so this one I had dream, literally. So I'm going to see where I can go with this one hahaha.

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SEEING ALICE

They said I could do it. They swore up and down.

They were wrong. I was fourteen years old and I had not lived a perfectly normal life, not that anyone does. But, mine was the farthest from normal.
I hadn’t been able to do things that the other kids could. I couldn’t write, ride… Continue

Posted by Maddison Barksdale on June 27, 2009 at 4:33pm

K Sawyer Paul

I very much agree with this blog post

Zoe Winters is a little tired of cynicism when it comes to self-publishing, and I agree with her entirely. The publishing world has changed entirely, and in most cases for the benefit of writers who may or may not have the patience/wherewithal to jump through the dozens of hoops one has to conquer in order to publish a book. Agent queries, publisher studying, market analysis,… Continue

Posted by K Sawyer Paul on June 27, 2009 at 3:38pm — 3 Comments

Maddison Barksdale

New story. That's right, I'm writing a different story.

Kay well I found I didn't like my old story so I had some kind of epiphany and came up with a new idea.
So I will be posting more shortly. :)

Posted by Maddison Barksdale on June 27, 2009 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

K Sawyer Paul

"Experts" and their money-grabbing conferences

Here at Gredunza Press we believe two very hard-line things: the first is that the publishing world is changing for the better, regardless of what people might tell you about nobody reading anymore. The second thing we believe is that this road can be rocky, so people in the know should do everything they can to help those who might need a little assistance getting through it. It's why we will never, ever charge for consultations, advice, or information about how to make a book, sell a book, bur… Continue

Posted by K Sawyer Paul on June 25, 2009 at 10:47am — 1 Comment

 
 

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ahhh, i didn't think about that tubejay. XD You might end up being right about that. I learn something new everyday. haha.
Writing as many pages as you do is a blessing. For me when I get into a groove, it's like a fever that is let out through expression. I think when you are inspired and the world aligns for you and the words flow like water take advantage of it. Ad...
i wouldn't be surprised if the timespan of the complete work averaged out to 300 words per day. i think you're right about attitude though, if you're optimistic but not too naive, that's probably better than if you know every detail of how much wo...
I read the whole thing and most of the comments down below on the link. It really opened my eyes to the difficulty of it all. But despite the fact that this guy is an awarded writer, he is really, really, really negative. Are writers really that s...
blip.tv probably makes it easier than anywhere else to cc license a video, because they have checkboxes or something that put the linnk icon for the license up underneath the video. it also promotes using cc licenses on blip, which is why i like t...
very cool, although i would never consider buying a sony reader. you know my position on drm, with books it's even more important to be able to move your books from one device to another, and as far as "nailing it down," that's practically (and pr...
Personally, I don't like E books. They kind of suck the enjoyment out of reading for me. I probably wouldn't publish an E book either, most sites like you said don't let you set the price.
You've given me a wicked idea. Give me a few days to formulate it and I'll get back to you.
You're looking for epub. It's a file format type that the Sony Reader and other open ebook readers prefer, since the text is coded in a way that allows wrapping to any screen, size, or purpose (you can make them all strobe-lit, if you want, say). ...
K Sawyer Paul added a videoon Thursday
inadvertently you bring up an interesting feature of ebooks- interface. with printed books the the interface is generally the same, only the font may differ from book to book. with ebooks, it is more reasonable to have it be possible to move the d...
People are frightened of losing control over their intellectual property, let alone their consumable pieces of entertainment (which is what we're more or less in the business of making). the myth is that it ever would be totally in their control....
The web in 1995 was an ugly place. Archive.org's wayback machine will tell you that much. If there's one thing I really, really want to get across is that educated, people-empowered change is always good, and corporate-approved, capitalistic chan...
The beauty of not having books (parody, or a telling but only slight exaggeration? you decide.) Here's a completely different take on the ebook argument. All too often, we are bludgeoned with the importance of "having access to" your digital prod...
Hey again, thanks so much for your warm comments. I do feel I'm quite strong at conveying good body language and emotion in my characters. And to get that feedback from you is awesome! So thank you. As for doing a whole book on that, that could de...
you can be cynical about anything. i think it's better to be cynical about a system that once helped many thousands of people, and less cynical about a system that will help millions more. both have strengths, both have weaknesses. so it is with a...
I am a little confused as to how it works exactly, though. How do people make their own? the file itself is a single text file. that contains the html, the script, the text content. this is a text only medium, there's no reason you cannot include...

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