publish your own book
Have you ever wanted to publish a book on your own? Do you think no publisher will ever pick it up? Perhaps your writing skill isn’t where you want it to be, so you’ve just given up all together? Maybe you have an idea and you need an outlet. Maybe you want to create a booklet for giving to just a small number of friends. You can do it. In fact, you can write your book and have only one copy made for under $20. Isn’t that amazing? On demand printing and publishing is your dream come true. Here are some resources for you. You will need to create the documents for the book or pamphlet somehow digitally. So you might pick up Openoffice.org
- http://www.lulu.com/
- http://desktoppub.about.com/
- CafePress.com publishing learning center
- http://www.publaw.com/contract.html
- http://www.copyright.gov/
- More Copyright info
- Even More Copyright info
- Book Publishers legal checklist
- http://www.creativecommons.org
- http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html
Some tools to easily publish your book online
- http://www.pmwiki.org
- http://www.dokuwiki.org
- http://www.icdsoft.com (hosting)
- http://www.wordpress.org
- http://www.primopdf.com
- http://www.inkscape.org (vector graphics)
- http://www.gimp.org (graphics editing)
- http://www.imageshack.us (free image hosting)
- http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
- http://jot.com/ Jot Spot wiki for documentation
- http://www.ourmedia.org Free media repository for everyone
March 28, 2005 at 1:14 am | books, tools, writing | No comment
