| Show n WhereGWeb Get your book published 0 YOU PLAN to be the next Stephen King publishing a book online and riding it to riches? Noted authors and alike can publish their author wanna-be- s masterworks electronically With just a computer and a modem you can start publishing — and reading — As with so many young technologies - electronically Some such as though there’s no single kind of come Bullet the novella designed for an King’s Riding reader the $200 to $300 device you can carry around and load up with digital books Still others are designed for handheld devices such as the Palm organizer Or there’s a simple software solution Consider Mighty-Wor(mlghtywordscom) The site has hundreds of works available for purchase starting at $2 each on topics ranging from celebrity bios to cooking They’re longer than a magazine article shorter than a book After a credit-carpurchase the site transmits material to your computer in Adobe’s Portable Document Format (PDF) You’ll need the Acrobat reader software available for free download from wwwjdobecomproductsacrobatreadstephtmL For a storage charge of $1 per book per month any author can upload works to the site set a price (the author’s choice) and receive half the royalties on any sales a respected Online Originals (wwwonlineoriginalscom) books for British online-onl- y publisher accepts review and possible publication Some in what the site calls the “Works” category are edited while “00 Direct” publications are not Writers and the site split royalties Books can be read on a computer screen or a Palm organizer ok ds d full-leng- th ' tiflM I Other helpful resources: EBookNet (wwwebooknetcom) is full of articles about publishing and reading technology To read a book on your computer you may need a piece of software The Glassbook Reader is free at glassbookcom If you have an reader big online bookstores such as amazoncom and barnesandnoblecom can help SoftBook Press (softbookcom) maker of the SoftBook Reader sells books magazines and newspapers to keep you — Richard Folkers reading C3 J ttMf it-- 1 tm’1 ipT ’ MY WEB: Ha Jin and their bookmarks Speaking of books here are the favorite Movers shakers sites of Ha Jin 44 wholl accept this year's PENFaulkner Award for Fiction for his novel Waiting next Saturday in Washington DC The Chinese-bor-n writing professor at Atlanta's Emory University made literary history by winning both that prestigious prize and this year's National Book Award for an author wwwjmazoncom Sure it's a to pick an online bookstore but Jin especially likes Amazon er because it's so ‘big and inclusive His latest purchase: a New American Standard concordance of the Bible e online wwwbookoocom It's a bookstore with 'many literary articles wwwwashingtonpostcom The online version of the newspaper from the nation's capital has 'lots of good — RF articles on politics Chinese-languag- SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: Smoking By Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury Premature Birth And Low Birth Weight 12 USA WEEKEND May 7 2000 |
