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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'bookleteering'
MeBooks and Pocketfolios
June 8th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: bookleteering · inspiration · learning · mebooks · pitch up & publish · pocketfolios · ppod · print on demand · publish on demand
Guide to new features
May 18th, 2010 No Comments
What Design Should I Choose? Proboscis have created 2 different eBook designs which you can choose from, both of which are available for A4/US and A3/Ledger sizes. Basic is a simple book design which places the title, author, a cover image and a logo image on the front cover. The eBook title, author, credits and [...]
Tags: bookleteering · guides · help · updates · user guide
Updates & New Designs
May 17th, 2010 No Comments
We are just finishing tweaks to the latest set of updates and improvements to bookleteer and will be integrating them into the live server over the next 24 hours : there may be some disruption to the service whilst we do this. We’re very excited by what’s in store, it’s a big step forward in [...]
Tags: bookleteering · design · updates
Print On Demand eBooks arrive!
March 29th, 2010 2 Comments
Our first batch of POD eBooks arrived and we’re very, very pleased with the results: We’ll be sending out some samples to various friends, colleagues and bookleteers, meanwhile we will start accepting orders for POD eBooks & StoryCubes from April 12th. See the prior post on POD for our initial prices.
Tags: bookleteering · ppod · print on demand · updates
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
some eBooks from Shoreham
March 15th, 2010 No Comments
Some eBooks by Dan Thompson, Debbie Zoutewelle and Russ Bravo made at PU&P 7 in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday.
Tags: bookleteering · emptyshops · pitch up & publish
PU&P 6 – at Brixton Village
February 5th, 2010 1 Comment
Hot on the heels of PU&P5, we will be heading down to Brixton’s Granville Arcade and the Spacemaker’s Brixton Village project to run another special PU&P with the BrixVill tenants. The aim is to introduce bookleteer to the tenants to begin to record and document some of their experiences, stories, photos and artwork using Diffusion [...]
Tags: bookleteering · brixvill · creative writing · emptyshops · pitch up & publish · workshop · zines
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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PU&P with We Are Words + Pictures
January 20th, 2010 3 Comments
Yesterday we held the first Pitch Up & Publish of the year with seven of the members of We Are Word + Pictures, a “team running comic and ‘zine themed events throughout the UK” – Matt Sheret, Michael Leader, Mark Higgins, Anne Hollowday, Emilie Chalcraft, Tom Humberstone and Julia Scheele… It was really inspiring for [...]
Tags: bookleteering · cartoons · comics · creative writing · drawing · pitch up & publish · zines
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
Pitch Up & Publish 3
November 9th, 2009 No Comments
The next PU&P will be on Thursday 26th November: Time: 6.30pm Venue: Proboscis Studio, 4th Floor, 101 Turnmill Street, London EC1M 5QP (map) Join us for an evening of exploring bookleteer and creating/publishing your own Diffusion eBooks and StoryCubes. Please email us to reserve a place: diffusion (at) proboscis.org.uk or sign up via our Facebook [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish
Pitch Up & Publish 1
October 21st, 2009 1 Comment
The first event was a fun evening and everyone who attended created at least 1 eBook each, with the exception of Matthew who managed to create two lovely examples. Thanks to everyone who came (Christopher, Fred, Kati, Matthew & Sara), and the team (Karen, John & Stefan). The next Pitch Up & Publish will be [...]
Tags: bookleteering · pitch up & publish · workshop
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 [...]
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