E-Books and Self- Publishing A Guide for the Scholar

Metaphor

Why Self-Publish? 0 Work doesn’t fit journals or traditional book publishers 0 Work has been rejected by journals or book publishers 0 Student projects 0 Value in openness

E-Books in General % of the market in 2010, up from 3.20% in M in 2010, $80.3M in million Kindles sold in every week of Dec Likely to grow with increase in tablets, smartphones and dedicated e-reading devices

E-books in Education 0 Textbook-wise students tend to prefer print 0 Reader limitations; annotation and note-taking 0 May change over time 0 Be careful about “flash”

Strategies for Using E-books 0 Select for one-time reads 0 Texts in which detailed note-taking isn’t as important 0 Things normally included in “readers”

Formats 0 EPUB 0 AZW 0 PDF 0 MOBI

Epub 0 Most widely used format…except Kindle 0 Calibre ( 0 ePubBud.com 0 2epub.com

AZW 0 Used by Amazon and really only Amazon 0 Calibre 0 the file to Amazon if you have an account 0 MobiPocket Creator (

MOBI 0 Similar to AZW, but more open 0 MobiPocket Creator (

PDF 0 Scholar most familiar with 0 Mixed story as e-book 0 Pretty good on LCD 0 Bad on e-ink

Publishing to Amazon 0 Set up a Kindle Direct Publishing account 0 Free with 30% royalties taken by Amazon 0 Pricing up to you, but with certain limitations

Publishing with B&N 0 Pubit! Service (pubit.barnesandnoble.com) 0 Free to publish 0 Royalties 0 Books $ $9.99, 35% goes to B&N 0 Books below $2.98 or above $10.00, 40% goes to B&N

Apple 0 Big push on textbooks at Jan. 19 event 0 Introduced iBooks 2 and iBook Author

iBook Author 0 Easy to use interface 0 Available for free 0 Publishes as special EPUB 0 Limitations 0 Only available on Mac 0 Large amount of space 0 Terms of Service allow only for iBooks distribution 0 Approval process

iBooks 2 0 Can’t submit into rival book stores, but can give away for free 0 Must be read on iOS device

In other words 0 A complicated picture

Google Books 0 eBookstore 0 Mostly tablets or smartphones 0 Need to become “Google Partner” 0 A little bit of work, but not as much as iBooks

Smashwords.com 0 Mostly for fiction

Many more…

Transition

Getting the word out 0 How do you let people know?

Selected UVU 0 Scholars’ Open Archive 0

Wordpress 0 Simple 0 Easy Customizable 0 Don’t have to blog about breakfast

Digress.it

DIY

LinkedIn

Google Scholar Citations 0

Mendeley

My Story

Questions? 0 Thank you for coming!