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.
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 : 12pm to 4pm
Venue : 11 City Arcade, Coventry
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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 get them back.
We’re also announcing our initial prices for the POD service (see below) which we hope will meet with approval. There are two POD options for eBooks, with a minimum print run of 50 copies :
Option A – for eBooks between 12 – 24 pages and,
Option B – for eBooks between 28 – 40 pages.
Option A prices start from around £3 per copy and go down to £1.61 per copy.
Option B prices start from around £4 per copy and go down to £2.29 per copy.
All prices include shipping within the UK. Please contact us for enquiries about larger quantities and overseas shipping. Turnaround time is expected to be 5-7 working days.
The StoryCube POD service has a minimum print run of 200 full colour cubes (single or double-sided), which can made up up of one or more StoryCube designs. Prices include VAT and shipping within the UK. Please contact us for enquiries about larger quantities and overseas shipping. Turnaround time is 5-7 working days.
Get in touch if you’d like to know more – we aim to start accepting POD orders after Easter.
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Carlisle on Friday 19th 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 19th March 2010
Time : 12pm to 4pm
Venue : 17 Lowther Arcade, Lowther Street, Carlisle, Cumbria CA3 8LX, UK
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Some eBooks by Dan Thompson, Debbie Zoutewelle and Russ Bravo made at PU&P 7 in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday.
We will be running a Pitch Up & Publish event with Artists & Makers in Shoreham-by-Sea on Friday 12th 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 12th March 2010
Time : 2pm to 4pm
Venue : 1a New Road, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex BN43 6RA
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HTML content and page preview for eBooks has now been corrected to work properly. This means that content pasted or added directly into the HTML editing window in the eBook create/edit page will now flow into the eBook PDF file at the correct scale. The page preview function is also now working properly to help you see how content will flow across the eBook pages, so you can choose where to insert page breaks etc. To see how your content looks as landscape or portrait, change the ‘Orientation’ (from Landscape to Portrait etc), ‘Save Changes’ and click on ‘Preview Your HTML Content’.
Test it out and let us know your feedback!
We received an email yesterday from a user based in Epinay sur Seine, France describing how he’s used bookleteer with his students:
My name is J.-Thomas Maillioux, and I’ve been working as the librarian for the collège Evariste Galois middle school since 2005. I’ve recently started to use the bookleteers to create “adventure books” for our first-year pupils’ library orientation program in a format both convenient and original. The flexibility of the Bookleteer publishing platform has also allowed me to quickly and easily implement the modifications suggested by my own observations, or advice from the students and teachers involved in the orientation program.
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I’ve also been able to sit down with small group of students to discuss what they would do with the Bookleteers : they suggested uses both for school (custom booklets for note taking on school trips, tutorials or HOWTOs for specific activities in sciences and technology classes, reminders while giving presentations in front of a class) and home (grocery shopping, tasks listing, books and stories writing or games) that make me think that, with the correct amount of support from their teachers in acquiring and supporting the necessary skills, they should be able to make the Bookleteers and the publishing platform their own relatively quickly : a good way to reconcile them not only with the printed word, but also with their printed word – that what they write, too, can be and deserves being made into a book with very little hassle.
We’d love to hear more testimonials of how bookleteer, the eBooks and StoryCubes are being used – please send your feedback to us at bookleteer at proboscis.org.uk
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 eBooks and StoryCubes.
The event will be free to attend – participants are encouraged to bring a laptop or device with mobile internet access and some text/images/digital artwork etc to begin creating your own eBooks & StoryCubes.
Date : Wednesday 10th February 2010
Time : 2pm to 4.30pm
Venue : Etta’s Place, Unit 85-86, Brixton Village / Grandville Arcade, Brixton
Location : http://spacemakers.org.uk/brixton/location/
RSVP – we will only have limited internet access on site so it is important to send a request for a bookleteer account to bookleteer at proboscis.org.uk before Wednesday 10th (mentioning spacemakers or Brixton Village)
10 new StoryCubes created with bookleteer were printed (in varying quantities) and delivered to customers this week – 100 copies of 1 cube for our friends at We Are Words + Pictures for their Modern Romance events on Feb 14th; and 9 cubes as part of a commission by the Early Intervention project for Birmingham Total Place.
8 of the cubes formed a special set (in an edition of 75) of drawings inspired by the issues and challenges faced by parents and community workers in Birmingham. A further cube was created for the Birmingham Total Place conference which was designed to provoke questions about Early Intervention and what more can be done.
We also had some fun making up large exhibition versions of the BTP cubes:
To create and order your own StoryCubes, contact us for details on prices and delivery options: sales at proboscis.org.uk