A Publisher's Guide: October 2012

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Calibre Ebook Management

"Calibre is a free and open source e-book library management application developed by users of e-books for users of e-books. It has a cornucopia of features divided into the following main categories:

Library Management

E-book conversion

Syncing to e-book reader devices

Downloading news from the web and converting it into e-book form

Comprehensive e-book viewer

Content server for online access to your book collection"

http://calibre-ebook.com

The 22 Rules of Storytelling [Infographic]

Nick's Writing Blog has an entry with an infographic showing the 22 rules of storytelling.

http://www.mywritingblog.com/2012/10/the-22-rules-of-storytelling-infographic.html

Instapaper

"A simple tool to save web pages for reading later."

http://www.instapaper.com

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Free Audiobooks And Ebooks In One Place

Where can you get such good a good deal?

Librophile has those FREE audiobooks and ebooks just for you.

They can explain their website better than this lazy blog writer.

What is Librophile.com?

Librophile.com (beta) offers a simple interface for finding completely legal free audiobooks and eBooks. You can browse the latest books, search by keywords or choose more broadly by genre or language. You can often listen to chapters online, download a whole book, play a sample or subscribe using iTunes. Librophile.com is available on both desktop and mobile and our ultimate aim is to provide a one stop shop for all the audiobook and eBooks out there.

How is it free?

The internet is full of free and legal audiobooks and eBooks but finding them can be hard work. We are here to help by constantly looking for you. Librophile.com maintains an extensive archive of over a million publications and is funded mostly by advertising. Our philosophy is to try our very best to locate a free version for you, however, if there are none then we can often recommend a pay book too. Free audiobooks and eBooks are predominantly contributed by the amazing Librivox.org service and the huge Gutenberg library. Pay books are often provided courtesy of the Audible.com and Barnes & Noble affiliate programs. Other sources include Storynory for children's books.

How does it work?

By using free and often open source tools such as jQuery,jPlayer, Apache and MySQL Librophile.com is able to maintain a free and competitive service. In addition, the latest thinking in responsive website design means we have a single build that adapts to best fit almost every platform including the iPhone, iPad and desktop machines. Behind the scenes there are servers continually searching for free audiobooks and eBooks to add to the database.

We do rely on feedback from our users so please do contact us if you have any suggestions for ways to improve our service. All suggestions are welcome so please email us at:info@librophile.com.

http://www.librophile.com/

ClipartOf

I didn't know there were so many clip art websites out there. Don't pretend as if you knew it.

To clarify, the royalty free ones are my favorite. Here's one, ClipartOf.

From their About Us web page.

"We are a digital stock image library offering royalty-free (rf) stock illustrations and clipart from professional illustrators and cartoonists around the world. All of our images are available as posters and art prints as well as digital downloads. Digital files are available to download immediately after purchasing.
A unique thing about ClipartOf.com is that we offer simple licensing; Editorial or Commercial Royalty-Free. Without tricky "extended" or special licenses, we make your job easier! Our competitors have so many different licenses and rules that its confusing and sometimes tricky. Many converted customers have admitted to not understanding the licenses at other sites. We try to make it as simple as possible, and in simple language for you.
Why are we here? We actually do have a reason other than to make a living. After years of witnessing artists being bullied by agencies, and at the begging of artists themselves, we decided to start a business that's ABOUT supporting the artists, not about making a quick buck at the artist's expense. We aren't about low-balling our artists and paying them a measly half a cent for each download, outsourcing jobs to save money, degrading artists by treating them like they are vermin... We are here because the artists ASKED us to be, and we take this very seriously. We let the artist's set their own pricing so they make what they need to, rather than TELL them what they will make, such as other sites do.
Unlike many of our competitors, you will also notice that we provide credit to our artists, rather than to make it look like we own all of the images ourselves. This industry has been taken over by greed, theft and immoral business practices. We stand out because we run ClipartOf quite differently. Take a stand with us! Help support our artists and a moral and small Southern Oregon (yes, American!) based business.
At ClipartOf.com you are getting images direct from the artists and helping support an industry of pure talent."

http://www.clipartof.com/