“Ways to get published the Non-traditional way” at the National Library
Collaborated with the Ivan Chew today for a talk at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. The event was organised by Singapore’s Media Development Authority. We talked about alternative mediums like audiobooks, ebooks and podcasts, why blogging is good for writers, publishing on demand etc. Ivan has a good write-up on the event on his blog. Links to some of the sites and resources we mentioned in the presentation. It was good meeting publishers, authors and people looking to write their first books.
Audiobooks - Audible.com
Ebooks - Amazon’s Ebook Store , E-Asia (Classic books on East Asia available as e-books),
Podcasts - Yahoo’s Podcast Directory , Fee based Podcasts
Sony’s E-Ink Reader
Publishing on demand
Cafepress
Lulu.com
Writers blog
http://goodmorningyesterday.blogspot.com/
http://redcouch.typepad.com/weblog/
http://jwikert.typepad.com/the_average_joe/
http://writersblocklive.com/
Also check out author Thomas Barnett speaking about how blogging helped in his writing. Download the interview from IT Conversations site. The part about the blogs starts at 32.35 mins from the start of the audio clip.
Some authors have started offering their books as podcasts. Check out Podiobooks.com
The first author to podcast his book was Scott Sigler. IT Coversations has an interview with Scott where he talks about why he chose to podcast and how to create awareness about your book using a podcast.
Singapore author’s websites
George Tan
Meira Chand
Singapore writing-related sites
www.qlrs.com/
http://www.bookcouncil.sg/
Singapore National Library
Singapore National Library’s Highbrowseonline
ASK! the Library
An useful post detailing sites where you can publish files/ podcasts
Creating Podcasts - Odeo, Audioblog
You may want to distribute some chapters or excerpts of your book as an ebook. You can use Readerworks free e-book creation software to create a MS Reader e-book or you can use Online PDF Creator to create a PDF file.
Zohowriter is an web based service that can be used for collaborative writing and PDF conversion.
Internet Archive - A site where you can store your audio or video
Free Blog Services - Blogger, Wordpress
Rambling Librarian’s Blogroll of Writers’ blogs
January 22nd, 2006 at 2:28 am
Hi Preetam, just sent you a mail for a copy of the presentation slides we did this morning. I was trying to add the links to the slides directly so that I could convert it to PDF and make it available for downloads. But the application crashed and the file is irretrievable (didn’t make backup… grrr).
January 22nd, 2006 at 8:35 pm
Hey Preetam, Ivan,
Thanks for a great job. It was a good crowd and I think they picked up a few good things from you… let’s see if any leave comments here.
January 22nd, 2006 at 11:47 pm
Hi Preetam, I was IMing with Lucian and he offered to host the PDF file of our presentation: http://tribolum.com/space/mtb_waystopublishonline.pdf
But some links aren’t coded right (my fault).
Peter, nice to see you drop by. I blogged about you briefly and suggested that you get a proper blog, heh heh.
November 20th, 2006 at 2:21 am
In the world today everyone wants to save time. Ipods, mp3 players, cell phones, portable cd players all allow downloaded audio books and other audio material to be easily accessed during commuting time, travel time, relaxation time, exercise time or really any time. As this new “player” technology is adopted more and more audio book media will become available.