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Re: Advocating for CC BY

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 14 Dec 2016 13:54:38 -0000

Very helpful ...

Re: Thursday’s Rugby News

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 19:00:10 -0000

oops i see this was addressed below. sorry.

Re: Thursday’s Rugby News

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:58:33 -0000

@KwAussie Rugby Lover ... Pichot is Argentine. Not French. I don't think Argentina's clubs are doing much to influence French player growth.

Re: One thing at a time. Most important thing first....

Hugh McGuire — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 09:25:08 -0000

a) take a regular piece of paper (better if lined). write out your list of everything you need to do. one column only. b) fold the paper in two, so that it makes a "book" with two blank covers, and the list "inside" c) of your huge overwhelming list of 35 things to do, pick the 5 most critical. write those in a list on the "back cover" (you've now reduced your crazy list of 35 to just 5 important things) d) now pick the one thing of those 5 you absolutely absolutely must do. you've now reduced your overwhelming list of 5 critical things to ONE thing. e) now do that one thing. f) once you've done it, strike it out on the "ONE THING" list, and then write a new ONE THING (from your list of 5 on the back cover). do it. etc. ... write a new list/book every week.

Re: One thing at a time. Most important thing first....

Hugh McGuire — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:44:22 -0000

next time we see each other, remind me to tell you about my solution to the ortolani-named: "black cloud of gtd oppression" ...I finally have a simple approach to self-management that really really works.

Re: GoInstant To Be Acquired by Salesforce

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:47:44 -0000

wowzer. congrats to all of you guys.

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 15:23:40 -0000

generally, I think the writer's job is to write; the publisher's job* is to connect the writing with the reader. "content strategy" then is: "figuring out how best to connect writing with reader, and make money from it." ... BIG CAVEAT: lots of writers have/will become their own publishers, and take on the publisher's responsibilities.

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 08:25:59 -0000

Again, my interest is less about the bells & whistles publishers/authors can add. I am much more interested in what readers can do with (web)books ... that they cannot do with p or e books.

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:11:17 -0000

also: ebooks *do not* mimic words on white paper... you lose all sorts of things in ebooks that you have in print. scribbling margin notes in paper is easy, it's cumbersome or impossible in ebooks (depending on your platform). you can easily lend paper books and give them away. not so ebooks. you can't sell ebooks second-hand.

in exchange, you gain all sorts of things with an ebook that you don't get with paper. but you don't gain as much as you would if you had ebooks + webbooks. and, note my interest is mostly around "what people can do with books" ... which usually involves underlining them, sharing them, talking about them... all of which the web will allow us to do in ways we cannot do with ebooks (right now in any case).

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:04:58 -0000

I never said books (or ebooks) will disappear; I said that "the distinction between books and the internet will disappear" ...

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:03:19 -0000

Good publishers will be the content strategists -- sometimes "publishers" will be "writers" and sometimes not. Some writers will just write.

Re: EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years?

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 16:01:56 -0000

Henry, all I am advocating is easier access to words. For instance: here is a "book" (e+p): http://shop.oreilly.com/pro...

here is a "book" (w): http://book.pressbooks.com/

I do not believe for a second that p or e books will "become obsolete" ... only that we will add w books to the mix as well -- because eventually readers will demand it.

Re: http://reubeningber.com/post/26419394932

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 11:19:11 -0000

Thanks for putting me in such esteemed company!

Re: ‘Fences’ breaks new ground for the web-based PressBooks™ publishing platform

Hugh McGuire — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:07:23 -0000

great to see you guys pushing the envelope on this!

Re: Three Companies That Will Change The Way You Read And Write

Hugh McGuire — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:49:16 -0000

thanks gary!

Re: Weekend Reading and Such

Hugh McGuire — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:34:01 -0000

Thanks for the PressBooks nod ... !

Re: PressBooks.com Lesson 2 in the Unofficial Guide

Hugh McGuire — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 09:31:18 -0000

thanks again kevin! (one note: seems the compression on this video made the screens harder to see than the last one?)

Re: Turn Your WordPress Blog Into a Book

Hugh McGuire — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:13:07 -0000

thanks for the mention ... import from WordPress (& elsewhere) is on the todo list, but we're not there yet ... stay tuned though.

Re: PressBooks – Unofficial How To Guide

Hugh McGuire — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 08:20:37 -0000

consider this official "authorization" ;-) thanks for this Kevin!

Re: Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing and PressBooks

Hugh McGuire — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 17:45:28 -0000

Hi Tumble ... different publishers have different specifications for how they want their manuscript submissions. Currently we do epub & typeset PDF.... but often publishers only accept MS Word ... which we don't export at the moment..... we might though, or RTF possibly. We'll see what the demand is.

Re: Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing and PressBooks

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:10:18 -0000

Hi Carl there's a bit of confusion. In order to have your book open to the general public, go to the global book settings page
(left sidebar menu): Settings --> Privacy

Set to public.

We need to make this a bit more clear ... in the works.

Let me know if you have any troubles ...

Re: Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing and PressBooks

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:59:18 -0000

Thanks Mary, the epub part works like a charm ... indesign XML... a bit less so.

Re: Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing and PressBooks

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:58:42 -0000

Hi Jim - I think I owe you an answer to an email you sent! It's coming! ...

Re: Hugh McGuire on the Future of Digital Publishing and PressBooks

Hugh McGuire — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:17:29 -0000

Thanks Chris!

Re: 3 Free Books to Open Your Eyes to the Future of Authorship

Hugh McGuire — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:13:46 -0000

Ha! I actually pitched that as a title to O'Reilly:

"Book: An Eight Ball's Manifesto"

..but they didn't bite! ;-)