“ “Screens are the new paper.” READING AND WRITING IN THE DIGITAL AGE The University of the Third Age Course leader: Tony Whittingham: Free eBook – “Storytelling With An Ipad” by Tony Whittingham Go to: You can read this book online and/or download and print the book BOOK INDUSTRY TRENDS Purchasing: From Bookstore to Online - Publishing: From A publisher to Self Reading: From Print to Digital - Stories: From Passive to Interactive Costs: Falling Book Publishing Predictions 2013: Free ebooks: Promote your story: Introduction to eBooks: Digital Storytelling With An iPad: Book Creator For iPad – Tutorial: The Clues To A Great Story (video): Get Published on Amazon.com: RECOMMENDED LINKS The advent of e-readers and digital reading is causing waves amongst publishers, creators, readers, and educators. E book sales are now regularly outstripping paper sales on new publications. Alongside the shelves of paper books, libraries are now adding shelves of Kindles, banks of iPads, …not to mention the digital texts, audio files and downloads that do not even need shelves. eBooks are considered to be the fastest growing part of publishing as costs for electronic storage and delivery continue to decrease, while the costs of printing and shipping continue to increase. Project Gutenberg offers over 42,000 free ebooks: Warringah Library eBooks: Amazon Kindle eBooks: Digital Book Today: Sources of eBooks

HOW TO OBTAIN EBOOKS FROM AMAZON 1. Go to the App Store and download the Kindle eBook Reading App 2. Go to Amazon.com and register to purchase eBooks 3. Go to Amazon.com’s Kindle Store and search for eBooks 4. Purchase and download your eBook to your Kindle Reader App HOW TO OBTAIN EBOOKS FROM APPLE’S iBOOKS 1. Use the iBook App to go to the Apple Bookstore 2. Buy and download your eBook to your iBook App library HOW TO PUBLISH YOUR OWN AMAZON EBOOK 1. Download the PAGES App ($10.49) and create a document for your story 2. your story’s document as a MSWORD file to your computer 3. Go to Kindle Publishing ( and use the guide to format your MSWORD file and then UPLOAD and PUBLISH to the Amazon Kindle Store HOW TO CREATE YOUR PERSONAL ‘News Magazine’ 1. Go to the App Store and download the free Flipboard App 2. Select and search for TOPICS for your online news magazine SOURCES OF MULTIMEDIA BOOK APPS Touch Press: Best Books For iPad: Interactive Books: HOW TO CREATE A MULTIMEDIA BOOK APP 1. Go to the App Store and download the BOOK CREATOR App 2. Create a cover for your book 3. Add multimedia content and send your multimedia book to your iBooks’ library HOW TO CREATE A PHOTO STORY WITH THE VIDEOLICIOUS APP 1. Select NEW VIDEO and then CHOOSE PHOTOS. choose the photos, including a cover image, for your story from the Camera Roll and Albums 2. Select SAVE - Have the narrative for your story ready – Select TELL YOUR STORY 3. Tap your first photo and press the record button and commence recording – tap each photo in turn and continue recording – press the record button to finish recording and select PREVIEW and tap the PLAY arrow. 4. select SAVE and then select CHOOSE YOUR MUSIC – select music and adjust mix level - select SAVE and select video size and save – 5. enter a title for your story and publish to YOUTUBE and to friends. Note that your photo story has been saved to your CAMERA ROLL and you can publish/ it later if you wish. NOTE: you can use your iPad’s camera as a ‘scanner’ and photograph old photos and articles to include, from the Camera Roll, in your photo story and videos.