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

2. Metaphor

3. 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

4. E-Books in General 0 8.32% of the market in 2010, up from 3.20% in 2009. 0 40M in 2010, $80.3M in 2011 0 1 million Kindles sold in every week of Dec. 2011 0 Likely to grow with increase in tablets, smartphones and dedicated e-reading devices http://productivewriters.com/2011/02/16/book-e-book-sales-data-united-states-2010/ http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooknewser/us-ebook-sales-doubled-in-september_b18289 http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1642935&highlighthttp://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=176060&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1642935&highlight=

5. 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”

6. 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”

7. Formats 0 EPUB 0 AZW 0 PDF 0 MOBI

8. Epub 0 Most widely used format…except Kindle 0 Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/) 0 ePubBud.com 0 2epub.com

9. AZW 0 Used by Amazon and really only Amazon 0 Calibre 0 E-mail the file to Amazon if you have an account 0 MobiPocket Creator (http://www.mobipocket.com)

10. MOBI 0 Similar to AZW, but more open 0 MobiPocket Creator (http://www.mobipocket.com)

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

12. 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

13. Publishing with B&N 0 Pubit! Service (pubit.barnesandnoble.com) 0 Free to publish 0 Royalties 0 Books $2.99 - $9.99, 35% goes to B&N 0 Books below $2.98 or above $10.00, 40% goes to B&N

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

15. 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

16. iBooks 2 0 Can’t submit into rival book stores, but can give away for free 0 Must be read on iOS device http://www.macnews.com/2010/08/10/gregs-bite-how-publish-apple-ibook

17. In other words 0 A complicated picture

18. 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

19. Smashwords.com 0 Mostly for fiction

20. Many more…

21. Transition

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

24. Selected Works @ UVU 0 Scholars’ Open Archive 0 http://www.uvu.edu/library/openarchive.html

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

27. Digress.it

28. DIY

29. LinkedIn

30. Google Scholar Citations 0 http://scholar.google.com/citations

31. Mendeley

32. My Story

33. Questions? 0 Thank you for coming!