An eccentric monthly publication for an era of eclectic exploration More and more beautiful, thought-provoking and inspiring eBooks are being created with bookleteer all the time so, with a nod to such illustrious forebears as William Hogarth, Joseph Addison, Jonathan Swift, Laurence Sterne and Charles Dickens we’re creating the Periodical, a regular monthly publication to [...]
Entries Tagged as 'publishing on demand'
Introducing… the Periodical
July 14th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: experiments · inspiration · inspiring uses · news · publishing on demand · sharing · the periodical
Testing a New Payment Service
June 13th, 2012 No Comments
We’re just testing out a new ‘cardless’ payment service as an alternative to Paypal – Go Cardless. It works by creating ‘Paylinks’ that enable customers to buy something via the Direct Debit system direct from their bank account (and consequently covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee so highly safe and secure). To test it we’ve [...]
Tags: payment systems · print on demand · updates
Your Stories… So Far
June 12th, 2012 No Comments
To coincide with our recent price reductions for A6 Short Run printed books, and lower minimum print run of just 25 copies, we are offering 50 books for the price of 25 for anyone wanting to make and print their own pocket portfolio, using the discount code “PORTFOLIO2012″. Giles showcased two great examples of bookleteer [...]
Tags: bookleteer · eBooks · mebooks · pocketfolios · portfolios
Jubilee memories offer
June 6th, 2012 No Comments
As a modest (and democratic) contribution to this week’s Jubilations we’re extending an offer for anyone wanting to make and print an eBook of their Jubilee memories : we’ll give you 50 copies for the price of 25 when you order via the Short Run printing service. Just quote this promo code “Jubileebook” and order [...]
Pocket Portfolios 2012 Special Offer
May 30th, 2012 No Comments
A couple of years ago we wrote about how bookleteer could be used to create shareable personal portfolios or pocketfolios. We continue to think that the eBook formats are ideal for making a simple pocket portfolio about your work to share and/or give way to prospective clients, employers, commissioners or funders. More than a business [...]
Tags: ppod · print on demand · special offers
We Are All Food Critics – best reviews compilation
May 25th, 2012 No Comments
At tomorrow’s Soho Food Feast we will be helping the Soho Youth group (and a few others no doubt) from Soho Parish Primary School create their own reviews of the food on offer from the incredible array of chefs. We’ve created a simple notebook for them to record how their five senses respond to the [...]
Tags: education · events · soho food feast
Mind, Pen, Page
November 7th, 2011 No Comments
My last few posts have concentrated on the different effects of various mediums on readers, their output if you like, but, triggered by this eloquent article championing pen on paper featured recently in The New York Review of Books, I’ve been thinking about the effects of various methods of input on writers and their work. [...]
Tags: creative process · creativity · handmade · ideas · notebook · technology · writing
crowdfunding publications
March 22nd, 2011 No Comments
The estimable Alex Steffen, founder of Wordchanging.com, has recently announced a new project – Carbon Zero: A Short Tour of Your City’s Future – which he’s attempting to fund through the crowdfunding site kickstarter. This is a really interesting idea and something we’re keen to investigate ourselves, having had some small success with our own [...]
Tags: crowdfunding · examples · inspiration · print on demand
City As Material Set
March 18th, 2011 No Comments
We’ve just received the complete set of 10 City As Material books back from the printers and next week we’ll be designing and making the special slipcases to hold them together and collect them into their limited edition (50 copies). The set will go on sale from the 31st March 2011 via the proboscis online [...]
Tags: city as material · collaboration · eBooks · inspiring uses · pitch in & publish · print on demand
CCI’s Library of Traces
February 21st, 2011 No Comments
Back in September Frederik posted a case study of Cambridge Curiosity and Imagination‘s use of bookleteer. They’ve continued using it as a creative and documentary resource, and in doing so have created a Library of Traces – a series of eBooks which enable both participants in their professional development workshops, and others, to follow the [...]
Tags: collaboration · education · examples · inspiration · inspiring uses · learning · making · workshop
Report from the field: eBooks in Sudan
February 2nd, 2011 1 Comment
A report by Julie Anderson, British Museum In January, I returned from Sudan where my co-author Salah Mohamed and I distributed the eBook we produced last autumn. Frederik Lesage has previously written about the development of our eBook, which deals with the archaeological excavations conducted in Dangeil, Sudan, as a case study for eBook usage, [...]
Tags: eBooks · education · evaluation · feedback · inspiring uses · language · learning · ppod · print on demand · sharing
bookleteer API
January 13th, 2011 6 Comments
Just before Christmas we implemented a major new feature on bookleteer – an API (application programming interface) enabling eBooks and StoryCubes to be generated by users direct from their own web applications and stored in or downloaded from their bookleteer accounts. Realising Tangible Souvenirs This has been a long-cherished ambition for us – harking back [...]
Tags: API · bookleteering · experiments · tangible souvenirs · updates
First day at Soho Parish Primary School
December 15th, 2010 No Comments
When I heard I was going to be working on creative projects that combine art and publishing with year 5 and 6′s in a primary school is Soho, I was definitely excited about working with children on a project that sounded different, creative, and fun (both for the kids and adults involved!) However, hearing that [...]
Tags: bookleteering · education · learning · workshop
eBook Observer – It’s all about the data
November 16th, 2010 No Comments
I know that I last promised an update on my examination of the eNotebooks, but I’ve found it necessary to take a bit of a detour before doing this which means reevaluating the kind of frameworks that are required. In the meantime, I’ve been taking stock of some potentially relevant work. Last April, I read [...]
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eBook Observer – Diffusion categories
October 27th, 2010 No Comments
Now that I’ve had the chance to examine some of the eBook projects in greater detail, I thought I’d turn to an examination of the Diffusion website. To do this, I could provide you with a summary what is available on the Diffusion website and its history. Instead, I’ve found that the group of Proboscis [...]
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