e-Publish+Me


 * Self-Publishing or Assisted Publishing of User Generated Content (UGC)**

In today's world anyone can publish or create their own materials. This section will highlight existing e-book publishers for proprietary content as well as extensive alternative sources for open e-textbooks and includes a peek in the future of digital publishing. As more


 * Subscription e-book services**

One model publishers seem to include is content subscription services, where users can subscribe to digital published material. This has been referenced elsewhere in this wiki and this page will archive some of the early sites from publishing companies and the open resource market.

[|Scholastic] has started a new e-book platform that promotes e-books to young readers. The app is called [|Storia] and is available now on Windows platform with the Mac version coming out later this month that is intended to be device agnostic. With children's e-book sales begin very low, Scholastic has been actively digitizing it's library and will now offer some 1500 titles through its e-bookstore. Children can now read e-books at their level form the e-bookstore.

If you have not had enough harry Potter then you will soon be heading over to the Pottermore platform to get your own e-book versions of the popular series. It is currently in beta but will be opening to digital subscribers of all ages in Q2 2012.


 * Self-Publishing Models**

Booktype - an open source platform to write and publish your digital content Floss Manuals - this site helps publish manuals for free and open source software Lulu Cengage Learning - textbook collection where you can create your own content


 * Proliferation of Open Access Publishers**

In a recent article in Chronicle of Higher Education there is a great article regarding open access publishers. This

The definition of “predatory open access publishers” [|offered by Jeffrey Beall], who is quoted in the //Chronicle// article: > . . . are those that unprofessionally exploit the author-pays model of open-access publishing (Gold OA) for their own profit. Typically, these publishers spam professional email lists, broadly soliciting article submissions for the clear purpose of gaining additional income. Operating essentially as vanity presses, these publishers typically have a low article acceptance threshold, with a false-front or non-existent peer review process. Unlike professional publishing operations, whether subscription-based or ethically-sound open access, these predatory publishers add little value to scholarship, pay little attention to digital preservation, and operate using fly-by-night, unsustainable business models. > > Some samples under this criteria include: > > [|The World Academic Publishing] > [|Research Publisher] > Sooma Publishing > > See complete list, by Jeffrey Beal. > In recent years there have been very few traditional publishers of learning content, majority of it bundled by textbooks and sold to institution primarily for referencing as learning content. In the digital age we are seeing enormous opportunity for publishing by an individual or groups. We are witnessing extensive growth field by high capacity devices that permit instant creation of video, text or audio and with access their inclusion into mainstream viewing. This has created rapid entrepreneurial gorwth in self-publishing enterprises and promotion of UGC as published works either with creative commons licenses or open access or pay-per-view access. Traditional publishers have been slow to respond to this change their model and are now beginning to respond to the challenge of the self-publishing marketplace.

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