Beating the Odds: Building a Publishing "Maker" Culture | American Libraries Magazine - 1 views
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Kevin Stranack on 26 Jun 14"With the emergence of new publishing tools, public libraries are able to be publishers for themselves. In essence, we can build a Maker culture for local publishing. "
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Leticia Lafuente López on 04 Oct 14Thanks! I did not know about Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing. Quite useful!
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Matt Tibble on 19 Nov 14Two competing views on the future of publishing, and how shifts in consumer behavior to purchasing or consuming electronic content is causing such a shift in the literary world. I found it interesting to read that a number of open source software platforms were identified as the harbingers of today's self-publishing model online. I never knew Wattpad existed - watt an awesome site (pun intended). I agree with the articles viewpoint about the role that public libraries can play in this shifting landscape. A good read.