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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