Publishing 3.0 - A Novel Model For Independent Educational Publishing

My New Years resolution this yr was to start occur a serial of ebooks for iPads, e-readers together with other digital devices. This has been my ambition since I published my maiden off majority Web 2.0 Tools for Teachers dorsum inwards 2009, but I’ve never felt that the time, the applied scientific discipline or the marketplace was at the correct place.

Significant changes over the concluding dyad of years though lead maintain led me to believe that forthwith is the fourth dimension to await at a novel model of ELT publishing, at to the lowest degree for the realm of instructor evolution books.

The changes I refer to a higher house include

• A proliferation of increasingly depression toll e-reading devices together with tablets.
• The evolution of powerful complimentary software together with applications such every bit iBooks Author for the evolution of media rich ebooks.
• The combination of these applications amongst secure together with reliable marketing platforms, such every bit Lulu together with iBookStore.
• The evolution of crowd-funding platforms such every bit KickStarter together with Indigogo.

I believe that the combination of these developments is forthwith enabling private teachers to write prepare together with launch their ain products to the marketplace on a commercially competitive footing amongst established publishers.

So why is this a expert thing?
Well anyone who has e'er approached a publisher amongst an visit for a majority volition know how hard it tin dismiss live on to acquire it accepted. The established publishers are, past times necessity, cautious close taking on new, innovative or risky projects. Producing together with distributing paper-based books is a hugely expensive elbow grease together with inwards the illustration of instructor evolution books, the returns are probable to live on pocket-size for both the publisher together with the writer.

The changes I refer above, however, lead maintain the potential to liberate writers from the established publishing procedure together with give them the liberty to prepare their ain projects together with products independently.

• The proliferation of depression toll mobile devices such every bit e-readers, tablets together with iPads provides a genuinely useful together with accessible medium on which to divulge instructor evolution materials. Instead of having your books at dwelling solid on the bookshelf you lot tin dismiss forthwith bear them to a greater extent than or less amongst you lot on your device thus they are on mitt at the 2nd of need.
• These devices together with the applications used to prepare content for them are capable of providing a media rich sense amongst color interactive images, audio, video together with a make of interactive learning apps, none of which is possible inwards a traditional paper-based book.
• The combination of these applications amongst established secure marketing platforms agency that writers amongst the commitment to run into their projects through to completion tin dismiss easily marketplace them internationally together with genuinely acquire a reasonable fiscal render on the locomote they pose in.
• Crowd-funding platforms similar KickStarter together with Indigogo enable writers to enhance the funds they bespeak to prepare expert lineament professional person products that the marketplace wants.

I’ve pose the crowd-funding platform at the goal of my list, but genuinely it should live on at the beginning, because crowd-funding doesn’t but provide the coin to launch the product, it also acts every bit a marketplace inquiry tool to run into if at that spot genuinely is a marketplace for the product. If the people for whom the production is intended aren’t willing to invest inwards it to acquire it created, thus it’s probable that at that spot isn’t genuinely a feasible marketplace for this product.

So this brings me dorsum to where I started amongst my New Years resolution. I lead maintain launched my ain crowd-funding projection to attempt to practise the maiden off inwards a serial of ebooks inwards a serial that I intend to telephone telephone The Digital Classroom. The maiden off of these volition focus on the role of online video every bit a tool for learning.

You tin dismiss uncovering out to a greater extent than close this projection past times next this link Digital Classrooms - Online Video or watching the video below.



If you lot recall this is a production you lot would live on interested inwards having them delight practise back upward it purchase either buying together with advance re-create of the majority or past times sharing the link amongst others you lot recall may live on interested.

You tin dismiss also acquire an visit of the form of content the majority volition encompass together with fifty-fifty contribute your ideas for what the majority should contain, using the crowd-sourcing questionnaire below. Just add together your ideas together with vote for the things you lot would most similar included inwards the book. That way you lot tin dismiss ensure that I make the majority that you lot bespeak to tending back upward together with prepare your teaching.


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I promise you lot uncovering the projection interesting together with that this ship service gets you lot started thinking close how you lot tin dismiss make your ain majority too.

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Nik Peachey