Steve Yuen's List: Publishing

• Top 10 sites for Creating Digital Magazines/Newspapers
  
  1. Issuu  - One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, with a very nice user interface.

  2. Yudu  - Upload a document or PDF to create an online magazine that can be emailed our or embedded into a site.

  3. Openzine  - Very user friendly site with an abundance of templates and layouts to create a professional-looking magazine and share online.

  4. NewsCred  - Create a terrific looking online newspaper in 5 minutes, similar to Openzine.

  5. Scribd  - A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing.

  6 Fodey  - A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site.

  7. Zinepal  - A great way to bring the news to students by "clipping" online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers.

  8. Paper.li   - A fantastic site to turn Twitter into an online readable magazine.

  9. Guzzle.it  - Is a news aggregator that puts online news in one customizable place.

  10. Crayon - Create a professional-looking newspaper with this nice online creator. There are several options to choose from, so it has a bit of a higher learning curve.

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• nine trends that we’re currently tracing with regards to digital content in Higher Education
• The increased disaggregation of content and the breaking up of the traditional textbook model
• A proliferation of e-content and e-learning apps that support content disaggregation and new product models
• A merging of the current rental market and the e-textbook market
• A wide range of license/subscription models designed to respond to consumer demands around price and ownership
• The growth of Open Education Resource (OER) repositories
• The development of a common XML format for e-textbooks, shared by all publishers and educational technology players
• The importance of devices and branded devices
• The development of e-commerce and new product ecosystems that challenge the traditional college bookstore
• A move from evolution to innovation and revolution

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• • Project Gutenberg: 33,000 free e-books, including all of the classics, available in Kindle, HTML and simple text formats.
  • Google E-Bookstore: The free section is filled with thousands of free, scanned copies of books, available in Kindle-friendly PDF formats.
  • Internet Archive: Millions of primarily rare, out-of-print works in multiple languages and formats (including Kindle), especially useful for academic work.
  • Open Library: 20 million user-contributed items in multiple editions and formats (including Kindle).
  • ManyBooks.net: Nearly 30,000 titles, many of which have been pulled from Project Gutenberg. Has a good collection of little-known Creative Commons works.
  • LibriVox: Thousands of free audiobooks.