TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics » blogs http://www.teleread.com News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Morning Roundup: 10 steps to creating a book based on your blog http://www.teleread.com/blogs/morning-roundup-10-steps-to-creating-a-book-based-on-your-blog/ http://www.teleread.com/blogs/morning-roundup-10-steps-to-creating-a-book-based-on-your-blog/#comments Fri, 24 May 2013 13:09:18 +0000 Joanna Cabot http://www.teleread.com/?p=85629 10 Steps to Creating a Book Based on Your Blog (Media Shift) I recently self-published an e-book based on my blog, and I want to share what I learned. This post focuses on the editorial process; in subsequent posts, I’ll share tips on coming up with a design for your e-book cover, choosing a publishing platform (I went with Kindle, [...]

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]]> http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/how-to-turn-blogs-into-e-books-a-conversation-with-shantanu-bala-of-ebook-glue/feed/ 7 Tell Dec. 6 DPLA hackfest what a good blog editor/creation tool should be like—to help libraries and patrons easily create their own stuff http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/tell-dec-6-dpla-hackfest-what-a-good-blog-editorcreation-tool-should-be-like-to-help-libraries-and-patrons-easily-create-their-own-stuff/ http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/tell-dec-6-dpla-hackfest-what-a-good-blog-editorcreation-tool-should-be-like-to-help-libraries-and-patrons-easily-create-their-own-stuff/#comments Thu, 06 Dec 2012 12:33:57 +0000 David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/?p=75348 If only WordPress, Drupal and the like were as easy to use as Windows Live Writer (screenshot) or at least the less cluttered versions of Microsoft Word! Inserting images and sizing and positioning them just right, for example, can be so much simpler with LW and Word. That’s why, here and here, I urged theDigital Public Library of America to come up with a good free blog editor, [...]

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