Our first batch of A5 books have arrived from the printer :
Entries Tagged as 'publishing on demand'
MeBooks and Pocketfolios
June 8th, 2010 No Comments
Over the past few weeks we’ve been imagining more uses of Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes, partly inspired by the family and personal eBooks created by our two Future Jobs Fund placements, Karine and Shalene, and partly with the help of Niharika Hariharan, a designer from Delhi (and former intern at Proboscis) who’s been in London [...]
Tags: bookleteering · inspiration · learning · mebooks · pitch up & publish · pocketfolios · ppod · print on demand · publish on demand
Alphabet Book No.1: by Clara
May 28th, 2010 No Comments
One of the great things about bookleteer eBooks and StoryCubes is their hybrid nature that means they can be simultaneously mass-produced and hand-made. Alphabet Book No.1 is a fantastic example of this. Each letter was sketched in pencil then painted over by Clara Angus Lane (then aged 3). The painted letters were than scanned and [...]
Tags: eBooks · inspiration
bookleteer at Art of Digital London
May 27th, 2010 No Comments
Yesterday Giles presented bookleteer and the Diffusion eBook & StoryCube formats at the Art of Digital London Salon, “Publishing – The Digital Word and the Arts’. The event (held at the Free Word Centre) was organised and chaired by Simon Worthington of OpenMute, with Caroline Heron and was aimed at Arts Council England RFOs (Regular [...]
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May StoryCubes Printing Deadline
May 24th, 2010 No Comments
The next printing deadline for StoryCubes will be 5pm Thursday 27th May 2010. Please ensure your orders are submitted by this time and can pay promptly by Paypal (orders which are not paid by 12 noon GMT Friday 28th will NOT be sent to press).
Tags: ppod · printing deadline · StoryCubes
PU&P 9 Coventry with Artists and Makers
March 25th, 2010 No Comments
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Coventry on Friday 26th March 2010, from 12noon until 4pm as part of the Empty Shops Tour. Come and join us to publish your stories, pictures and ideas as Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Date : Friday 26th March 2010 Time [...]
Tags: bookleteering · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop
Print On Demand with bookleteer
March 22nd, 2010 1 Comment
Last week we passed another significant milestone for bookleteer – integrating a new set of templates that automatically render each eBook into a Print On Demand (POD) version. We’re sending the first 12 samples to be digitally printed as full colour A6 saddle-stitched booklets today and will post up some photos as soon as we [...]
Tags: bookleteering · ppod · print on demand · updates
bookleteer test accounts – more invitations
January 22nd, 2010 1 Comment
We’re accepting another 100 requests for bookleteer test accounts over the next few weeks. If you’d like to try your hand at bookleteering – creating your own shareables (Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes) then send us an email at bookleteer @ proboscis.org.uk with a sentence or two about what you’d like to do with it and [...]
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Recent eBooks made with bookleteer
December 14th, 2009 No Comments
We now have over 70 registered users of bookleteer and the number of eBooks and StoryCubes being created and published is growing by the week. We’ve recently published new Transformations series commissions by Linda Carroli, Julie Myers and Will Davies with forthcoming works in the pipeline by Rita J. King, Ghislaine Boddington and Andrew Kötting. There [...]
Tags: bookleteering · eBooks · eNotebooks · pitch up & publish · StoryCubes
International languages & bookleteer
December 7th, 2009 No Comments
One of the most important decisions we took with planning bookleteer was to integrate support for languages other than English from the very start – not just ones which use the European Latin character set (ABC etc), but languages that use non-Latin characters and those which read from Right-to-Left. We’ve done initial tests with languages [...]
Tags: language
Pitch Up & Publish
October 8th, 2009 No Comments
Starting in October we will be running regular informal evening workshops for people to literally pitch up and publish using bookleteer.com. Initially these will be held at our Clerkenwell Studio for up to 15 participants – all you need is a laptop and some content (text /photos/ drawings etc) you’d like to create and share as eBooks [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish · workshop
bookleteering is go!
September 29th, 2009 No Comments
As of Monday 28th September 2009 we have a working ‘alpha’ version of bookleteer deployed on our production server. Over the next few months we will be refining the user interface, developing contextual help and user guides and workflows for how to prepare files for upload. There’s also much work to be done on site [...]
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