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Ryan said:
Free e-books as a loss leader and marketing tool for the rest of the series? I'll buy that.
Quote: One of our free titles was the #1 download on Amazon for the entire month of February. The subsequent sales of books 2 and 3 in the series increased by a rate of 20 to 1. Added: March 18, 2010 at 7:38AM EDT
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Ryan said:
A review on an infographics blog about a book full of infographics created by monitoring other people's tweets and blog posts and whatnot for statements of actual emotion. Meta.
Added: March 11, 2010 at 7:44AM EST
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Ryan said:
This is just Part 1 of Mark Luckie's series about turning his running catalog of lists, tutorials, and commentary into a real live book you can pick up at Amazon. Mark's process has always been an open dialogue with the online journalism community, and these posts continue it.
Quote: When I began writing the book, I thought it would be easy to just take my blog and magically transform it into a book, but I can tell you that there is so much work that goes into creating a project of this magnitude. Blogging gives a writer freedom to write in whatever style they want, with little connection from one post to the other. A book, however, must have a flow and each paragraph, section, and chapter must connect to the next. Added: March 10, 2010 at 5:52PM EST
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Ryan said:
Joe Clark lays out the case for using an HTML format as a Web standard for e-books. It's an obviously brilliant and necessary thing, but will publishers see proprietary formatting as a form of de facto DRM?
Quote: I am articulating an HTML-triumphalist view of E-book production. By backing what I feel is obviously the right horse, I am contributing to the strangulation of new or uninvented forms of the book. Added: March 9, 2010 at 7:47AM EST
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Ryan said:
I've been wildly impressed with Mark Luckie's blog and work at 10,000 Words since I first heard of him. Highly recommend this book as a good reference to have in every newsroom.
Quote: Online technology and digital journalism changes every day, but the technologies featured in The Handbook are the core tools and storytelling techniques journalists should be familiar with, including blogging, audio, video, Flash, audio slideshows, social networks, and more. Added: February 17, 2010 at 12:50PM EST
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Ryan said:
This book is a data-focused remix of "Think Python: How to Think like a Computer Scientist," the book Adrian Holovaty often recommends to journalists who want to get started with Django.
Quote: Chuck Severance, clinical professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, recently published a new textbook in 11 days because he was able to remix an existing textbook. Added: February 5, 2010 at 12:16PM EST
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Traditional content delivery format: Audio book. The @garyvee-style remix format: Audio book where he rambles off and tells different stories, updates listeners on ideas that have evolved since the hardback was published.
Quote: It was published the first week of January and has been selling incredibly well despite the fact that I can’t seem to find anywhere except for a few tweets from Gary that there’s new information here Added: January 20, 2010 at 11:11AM EST
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