tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-138004732010-03-08T10:55:37.713-08:00Self Publishing 2.0Print on Demand and ebook publishing have created a whole new model for publishing. Are POD and digital books the answer to an author's prayers, or just an evolutionary step between traditional publishing models and free Internet distribution?Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.comBlogger477125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-56432044799423401702010-03-08T06:40:00.000-08:002010-03-08T10:55:37.727-08:00Low Cost Digital Publishing ExperimentsI've taken quite a few photographs in my life, and between the series of how-to books written for McGraw-Hill and my websites, I've published over a thousand of them. One of the things I've learned is that panoramic pictures almost never capture the same feeling you get when you're looking at some distant attraction. It cost me dozens of rolls of 35 mm film and hundreds of dollars in developing Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-54666750920011021992010-02-22T08:30:00.000-08:002010-02-22T08:52:34.139-08:00The Day The Self Publisher Took A VacationI should have been in New York for Tools of Change this week, as evidenced by an inbox full of invitations to press events, but I stayed home. This is no reflection on Tools of Change, which I think is THE conference for publishers trying to stay ahead of the curve and for working media in the publishing field. However, I'm trying to get away from blogging, and conferences are primarily about Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13800473.post-17570487498363796472010-02-16T05:52:00.000-08:002010-02-16T08:02:20.836-08:00Wikipedia, eHow and Long Tail Content FactoriesEverybody already knows about Wikipedia which has come to dominate the search results for reference information queries, and with good reason. I probably visit Wikipedia more often than any other website, and I've found it to be highly reliable for the subjects I research. Years ago, I worried that Wikipedia would end up stealing all of my how-to web traffic, but Wikipedia is primarily a Morris Rosenthalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02366583952912843043noreply@blogger.com6