3 month ago
philgyford : Secrets of book publishing I wish I had known - Good Experience - Nice clear description of having a book published. Even if you have a publisher, you're on your own. (via Kottke)
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3 month ago
philgyford : Seth's Blog: Advice for authors - More advice for when you're having a book published.
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4 month ago
deusx : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - "I would say that avoiding the temptation to write, and outlining in fanatical detail, is a very high-value activity for writing a book that’s hierarchically organized like this. "
Jeremy Zawodny : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?: 'You can cut your work down by about 75% if you keep working on more and more detailed outlines, long past the point you think you ought to start “writing.”' True. Lots of good stuff in that
Simon Willison : What is it like to write a technical book? - What is it like to write a technical book?. Plenty of food for thought from the lead author of the new edition of High Performance MySQL. It’s amazing how Word is still an integral part of most technical book projects despite its obvious inadequacies
philgyford : What is it like to write a technical book? at Xaprb - Great write-up of what it was really like to write a big complicated book, managed by rather disorganised people. (via Simon Willison)
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Andy Baio : MagCloud, magazines printed on demand from a PDF - Derek Powazek's new venture with HP Labs; upload a PDF and you pick the markup
philgyford : MagCloud - Self-publishing, publish-on-demand magazines. Send a PDF, and they handle printing, delivery, subscriptions, etc. Seems such an obvious idea now Derek Powazek and co have done this. (via Daring Fireball)
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4 month ago
veen : What Newspapers Still Don’t Understand About The Web - Publishing 2.0 - "Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that the WHOLE site?"
Andy Baio : What Newspapers Still Don't Understand About the Web - great post about the Washington Post being held back by their print editions and mindset [via]
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5 month ago
Linkorama : Ok, Wired, Let’s Do This. - Interesting clash between bias vs. disclosure, and competition vs. covering competition
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6 month ago
deusx : Using Movable Type's Publish Queue | Movable Type Docs - "If you have enabled and configured Publish Queue, when a user saves an entry, leaves a comment, or performs any action that would publish new content to your blog, the system puts that publish action into a queue. Jobs in this queue are then process
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6 month ago
deusx : Why (most) authors and publishers need not fear online piracy - "Given the difficulty of breaking into print in the traditional way, the Internet looks to many aspiring authors like a powerful new way to distribute content and find an audience; it has promise, not peril."
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9 month ago
Andy Baio : Adam "Everyware" Greenfield self-publishing his new book - three cheers for cutting out middlemen; pre-orders are now available via Paypal
veen : New day rising « Adam Greenfield - "[W]e’re going to try a little experiment. We’re going to publish my next book, 'The City Is Here For You To Use,' ourselves."
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10 month ago
Linkorama : Wikipedia: A community of editors or a community of authors? - This is why I've always found the publishing disdain for "user generated content" to be so perplexing. The fundamental job of publishing is curation -- finding good stuff and bringing it to an audience that might not otherwise encounter it.
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11 month ago
deusx : The next step in Digg clones (Scripting News) - "I want starting a Digg-like community to be as easy as creating a weblog on blogger.com."
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11 month ago
gleuschk : Rejecta Mathematica | Caveat Emptor - the editorial board consists of four engineers. guess they're used to their mathematics being rejected.
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13 month ago
deusx : DIY Marketing For Authors » Chris Webb on Publishing, Media, and Technology - "I suppose sheer numbers might indicate there are more authors in social applications than publishers, but that stands to reason. Many of us are pushing into this space and although it is too slow for my taste."
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13 month ago
WillPate : ConceptShare - Design collaboration made easy - I work here now :)
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deusx : The Masterplan | The Morning After - "The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. The theme was created based on a brief survey on the WordPress forums about what people would want to see in a unique magazine-style theme."
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14 month ago
gleuschk : What We Can Do About Science Journals - all reasonable, but somehow I don't see any of it being effective
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14 month ago
deusx : What’s the Use in Twitter? Where is the Value? - "In the end, Twitter is just another tool. It’s value is in how you use it."
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17 month ago
deusx : Author Advice: The Non-Compete Clause - "A publishing agreement should be a partnership, and if an editor is doing his or her job it should be part of an ongoing relationship with the most valuable asset any publisher has - its authors. If both parties are reasonable and understand the ot
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17 month ago
deusx : Anne 2.1 » On Book Contract Non-Compete Clauses - "The problem is I just don’t know what will happen in the future. And neither do you. So if you’re about to sign a contract of any sort with a noncompete clause, try to get out of it."
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18 month ago
wearehugh : defective yeti: Tricks of the Trade - publishers suck
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18 month ago
nelson : RIP Dragon magazine - A 20 year old D&D stalwart ends
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18 month ago
deusx : Atom Publishing Protocol Interop a Success - O'Reilly XML Blog - "Two days of intense work didn’t uncover big holes in the spec, which is nice."
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19 month ago
Jeremy Zawodny : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - SF Chronicle in Trouble?: name a newspaper that isn't...
Linkorama : SF Chronicle in Trouble? - "The most authoritative newsletter covering the newspaper industry issued a gloomy prognosis for the business today and then, tellingly, went out of business.
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19 month ago
gleuschk : Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations [An American Physics Student in England] - need to show this to my calculus students -- they could be famous because of my class!
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