1472 readersWe are barely past the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday and here I am crashing through all the fun of the season by bringing up January. There’s no point sticking your head in the sand. The new year is coming and with it comes new responsibilities. To put a positive spin on it, it brings new opportunities
3642 readersI am a note-taker. A list-maker. Always have been.
If you’re anything like me, you have handwritten reminder notes scattered over your desk, the living room, the kitchen, and stuck inside the pages of books. You also have typed notes lurking in every corner of your hard drive–some years old, forgotten, never to resurface.
Recently, I found
3666 readersFiction writing ain’t what it used to be. We live in a new world, where dozens of online tools are available to make the process easier and faster, helping you organize and work your way through the process with ease. Let’s take a look at the usual steps to writing a novel, and how various
1873 readersIn 2004, political campaigns and the press buzzed over “blogging”; in 2008, the technology of the moment was YouTube, providing CNN with debate questions and at least one candidate with a one-way ticket home. For 2012, predicts Lee Rainie, founder and director of Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, smartphones and mobile “apps”
3730 readersMediabistro has unveiled the new Publishing App Expo, a conference that brings together writers, editors, and publishers for a two-day safari through the world of eBook app design, demographics and distribution.
Scheduled for December 7th and 8th, t...
4216 readersSince I began blogging, I’ve found my mind tends to get extremely cluttered with great ideas and good intentions. I find myself continuously thinking about new articles, ways to monetize, affiliates to join, shortcuts I discover, products I like, services I want to remember to praise, the list goes on and on. All of which
1754 readersGalleyCat and eBookNewser have been covering the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference in New York City all week. We’ve collected some highlights below.
We rounded up five things publishers need to know about apps, from pricing to update sche...
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A popular blog meme for the end of the year is the “greatest hits” post. Since this is our first year with the Journalistics blog, we figured it was a great time to look at the posts you liked most in 2009 – partially for the reader feedback value, but also to introduce some of
5014 readerseBook pricing is a highly debated topic in the book publishing industry, and it gets even more complicated when it comes to eBook apps. Children’s book apps, one of the more popular genres of book apps, have their own set of considerations.
Sam Berman is the founder of Grids Interactive, a kids book app development company
724 readersLike many journalists, this GalleyCat editor always leaves the library with too many documents photocopied from books and magazines. With the right text recognition tools, we can avoid these problems all together--the best programs will transcribe scanned, photocopied, or photographed images into digital text.
Inspired by Lifehacker's list of the Five Best Text Recognition Tools,