The Web Writer's Guide
This detailed reference allows those who write Web content a clear, concise set of tools and strategies to write efficiently and effectively.
TABLE OF CONTENTS The Web Writer's Guide
Chapter 18: Electronic Books and Online Learning
Today many of us are downloading electronic books (e-books) from the Web. If we don t want to print out an e-book, we can use the Web to place an order for a print-on-demand (POD) book, and the book will be shipped to our home that day. After dinner, we might decide to log on to the Web and sign up for a marketing or biology distance learning course.
E-books and distance learning are developing at a rapid speed. The processes that appear to bring us information quickly today will look slow and obsolete by tomorrow s standards. As writers, we need to monitor the advances of technology, adapt, and continue to learn. Those traits will bring us tomorrow s writing opportunities.
E-Books and E-Book Publishing Companies
Currently, writers who want to get their books published can choose an alternative route to the traditional print publishing book houses. Instead, they can sign a contract with an electronic-publishing (e-publishing) book company to produce an e-book.
Readers pay a predetermined fee for the e-books on the e-book publishers site. The readers may then download the e-books as PDF files, HTML files, ASCII text, or through a PDA platform. E-books can also be sent through the mail to readers homes on a CD-ROM or diskette.
Some e-book publishing companies also offer a print-on-demand (POD) option as part of their contracts to writers. A POD version of a book will satisfy those readers who don t want to print out a 250-page book on their printer at home.
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