HarperCollins Keen On Digital And Mobile
The publishing world is increasingly going digital, and since a lot of reading is done while “mobile”, it makes sense that mobiles are a part of that play. HarperCollins launched an iPhone service a few months ago with excerpts of certain books — the idea being that people would read the excerpts to see if they like the book, and if so buy it. HarperCollins CEO Victoria Barnsley is quite keen on digital media. “The thing I would want to stress most is from an author’s point of view, digital is a fantastic opportunity. An author through the medium of the web can have a direct dialogue with the readers. Some authors are quite frightened and threatened by it. But as one author said, obscurity is a greater threat than privacy. The web means authors need no longer be obscure,” she is quoted in The Independent. HarperCollins is launching a website, Authonomy.co.uk, which it hopes will be a community of authors and readers, based on Barnsley’s view that more people want to write a book than read a book (which is possibly true, but I guess it’s a good thing that people can read more books than other people can write). There’s no details there on any mobile part to the community, but I suspect there will be since that is where all communities are going.
Barnsley doesn’t think andy of the “e-readers” that have come on to the market so far are “quite there yet”, and it’s worth pointing out that on Monday Amazon will launch Kindle, a portable e-reader with the dimensions of a paperback.
I would be interested in posting my work. I have written three full length novels, several short ones and over two-hundred poems.
What are the rules? Do we publish a chapter at a time?
I write and email some of my books to a Senior Net site that is currently undergoing a major problem and not available.
For that reason my chapters average three-thousand words per chapter. It avoids being seen as spam.
I am seventy years old, I am retired and have never been published other than privately on the net. I do have a group who read my books faithfully. I quit sending after the last short story. In the summer I took a haitus, I guess you could say. The group gets larger every year.
I write a variety of different type novels. Most involve a 'Main character' and a few secondary characters, plus a lot of minor characters.
I am computer literate, to a degree, I have software to burn my work to CD's or DVD's. I use Windows XP-Home edition and Microsoft Office 97. I have the capability to add graphics to my work with a variety of different software.
I would like to pursue this matter. In these times of economic disasters I could use the money generated. Plus I feel my work is 'good' and worth publishing.
I think the way my books are written they could be adapted to a TV series. God know we need some new material on TV.
How do I protect myself from having my work stolen or used without gain to me?
I await your response with eager keyboard.
Ed Glancy, <lonsumed@msn.com>
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