We just launched Bite-Size Edits as a stand-alone site, a bare-bones collaborative editing engine (see here for a bit of detail). We’ll be adding more features back in, and some really exciting new ones. It’ll be a brand new way for readers, writers and editors to engage with each other.
In the mean time, we [...]
When we started Book Oven, we came up with this … intriguing … idea of Bite-Size Edits, a new way to think about proofreading. Proofreading and copyediting are tough, honorable jobs, and they’re essential for the production of good texts.
But, what if you could break up the job of a proofreader, let a few [...]
Every November, hundreds of thousands of writers commit themselves to the maddest of madnesses: writing a 50,000-word novel in one month, for Nanowrimo, the National Novel Writing Month.
It’s a time of creativity, chaos, angst, nerves, procrastination, excitement, and sheer folly, a colossal celebration of passion for the written word.
It’s also a time, let’s face it, [...]
We originally built Bite-Size Edits for proofreading, but it was always in our minds that there might be a translation angle as well. So when Jason Prince asked us about using Bite-Size Edits to do “social-translation” of an important book about urban planning, cars, and a big highway interchange reconstruction plan in Montreal, we said: [...]
We’ve made some changes at Book Oven! We’ve done some design tweaks to the dashboard, and opened up some new features so that they’re easier to see and use. As always, we would love to get more feedback on our feedback page (which now – hooray! – does not require you to sign in [...]
Jon Udell is one of the great thinkers about technology, particularly about how technology can be used to do useful things in society. He was one of the first “famous” fans of LibriVox.
So I was happy to be able to talk to Jon on IT Conversations this week about Book Oven. You can listen [...]
Il y’a une petite article dans L’Actualité (Sept 09) sur Book Oven et LibriVox:
« Le numérique ne tuera pas l’édition traditionnelle, mais il va la changer », dit Hugh McGuire. Cet ancien ingénieur en mécanique âgé de 35 ans lançait en 2007 un autre collectif, Earideas, qui recense les balados (podcasts) de l’heure sur le Web. [...]
Book Oven pal Mark Bertils writes about Cloud Publishing on indexmb, focusing mostly on the reader-side, with services like Shortcovers and the more forwardlooking expectation of booky-APIs, Kindle’s or big cloud-based catalog initiatives.
The stuff that’s happening and going to happen on the finished product/reader side is exciting, but it pales, I think, in comparison [...]
My colleague, co-founder, and the chief architect and getter-doner at Book Oven, Stephanie Troeth has proposed a moderated panel at SXSW this year called:
Beyond Publishing: When Every Book is Connected to Everyone
We have an all-star line-up who have agreed to join us (if SXSW agrees to give us some space to talk):
Kassia Krozser co-founder [...]
This was going to be a short post. It’s turned into a manifesto of sorts! Ah, well …
I don’t like the term “self-publishing.”
Cloud-Publishing
In the emerging world of “cloud-publishing,” it’s meaningless, and does not reflect what’s coming, what we’re already seeing signs of. Cloud-publishing — what we’re doing at Book Oven — is providing a [...]
