The FastPencil Marketplace brings authors, editors, illustrators, marketing professionals, and other experts together as part of a new approach to writing, publishing, and distributing books and eBooks.
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NY Times tech writer Eric A. Taub gives FastPencil a spin:
Cleverly, FastPencil offers its writing services for free. You don’t anything unless and until you want other services, like professional design, editing, proofing and publishing.
FastPencil is easy to use. Navigation is a breeze and costs for various services are easy to find, with examples as to what you can expect to pay for different ones.
Taking a nontraditional publishing route? Tell us what you need.
We’re launching an exciting new collaborative book project today. If you’ve served in Iraq or Afghanistan and have a story to tell about a hero you served with, you can contribute to this book. Check it out at http://www.fastpencil.com/militaryheroes and spread the word.
The latest from the people who operate FastPencil, an online book publishing company headquartered in Campbell, CA.
As this NY Times article illustrates, there’s a war on. It’s a war for the future of eBooks. The combatants are fighting over who controls pricing. Will the “agency model” used by Apple (publisher sets price and Apple receives a 30% commission) prevail, or will Amazon’s approach ($9.99 standard eBook price) win?
And while the big guys slug it out, where are authors? Who is watching out for their interests?
What about a model in which the author sets the price for eBooks? In fact, why not let the author set the price for any book they publish, regardless of format?
The UK’s Guardian newspaper has an interesting article about the rise of the casewrap cover (what we call case laminate).
Wioleta Kaminska’s new children’s book, Alice & Friends, is a bright, colorful adventure that teaches young readers the value of friendship. Wioleta used the FastPencil Photo Book Creator to match her text with the story’s rich, vibrant illustrations.
FastPencil cofounder Michael “Mash” Ashley has just started an experiment using “every possible new social technology, mobile phone, e-publishing resource available” as he creates a new book over the next 30 days.
It’s a public experiment designed to reveal how Web 2.0 tools can be used together to create an entirely new writing experience, one that leads to rapid flow from concept to writing to marketing and distribution. It’s all intertwined. It’s the AuthoREvolution!
Jarie Bolander offers some wonderful insights about how blogging can be excellent preparation for writing a book, and about the value of social media during the writing process. It was this very realization that caused us to put social media tools into FastPencil, so you can receive feedback and start marketing your book before it is finished.
ambition01:
If you’re a novelist (or someone who hopes to be someday), don’t get too frustrated with the publishing process — just do it yourself with FastPencil. We’ve posted about self-publishing sites before (including those for magazines), but FastPencil is great because it helps youbreak into the eReader market (which we all know is so hot right now) and sell your book online, while still reserving the option to create real books to buy as well. Additionally, FastPencil paves the way to sell your book in stores by assigning you ISBN numbers (or barcodes), which are important for tracking and selling in bookstores.
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Source : Geeksugar
