Here is my format-agnostic definition of a “book”: A book is a discrete collection of text (and other media), that is designed by the author(s) as an internally-complete representation of an idea, or set of ideas; emotion or set of emotions… I’ve used this definition of a book in a number of presentations, including “An more →
best pressbooks splog dispute email ever: “I will be using this pressbooks account to allow 5th grade students to create poetry ebooks.” — PressBooks (@pressbooks) April 18, 2013
I just had an exchange with a PressBooks user, who wondered why their book is not selling well in the Kindle store, which, I imagine, is a common question for authors. I answered: imagine that your book is in a bookstore imagine that bookstore makes it very easy for readers to find a book if more →