Forms of Digital Publishing - Part Two

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为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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Commonwealth Education Trust

为年轻读者而写作：打开宝箱

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This course is for curious students and aspiring authors with a passion for writing for young readers. Participate in a dynamic online community of writers as you experiment with your own writing and develop your voice. This course will guide you with a combination of video lectures, online readings, peer reviews, and guest appearances from world-renowned children’s authors. As you work through the writing exercises, you will give and receive feedback from your peers and gain tools and techniques for improving your writing. During this course you will identify stories that matter to you, explore cultural significance and boundaries, and shape your identity as a writer; become familiar with standard elements of narrative (character, setting, plot, theme, language, dialogue, point of view); reflect on your own work and practice essential self-editing skills; see the different ways in which words and art interact, and the possibilities of longer narrative forms; come away with practical insights into publishing options; and create a plan for pursuing your enthusiasm for writing. By the end of the course, you will have ten to twelve extracts of writing that you can develop into a portfolio. Join a dynamic community of many voices from around the world. Find inspiration in your own voice, heart, and place so that you can tell the stories for young readers you’ve always wanted to tell.

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Publishing

In this final module you’ll learn about different ways that you can get your work published and into the hands of young readers. We have included information about a range of different publishing methods available to you, from traditional print publishing to digital publishing. You can also listen to our guest writers talking about how they publish their own work. This MOOC is just a starting point for your writing life. You will soon be ready to join a global network of writers.

Forms of Digital Publishing - Part One4:38

Forms of Digital Publishing - Part Two4:24

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David Hill
Author
Maria Gill
Author
Alex Alexandrou
Dr

You can also publish your work as a PDF, short for portable document format.

That's when your document, including its text, fonts and

graphics have been captured as an electronic image.

You might want to change your story into a PDF.

Let's have your stories straight with minimal illustrations and

graphics and doesn't have any moving parts, videos or drop-down boxes.

It's a fixed layout flat document that people can't change,

unless they change it back to a document.

They can do this if they have editing software,

such as Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Capture.

A PDF document is safe to share and copy.

You should be able to change a story document into a PDF on

a word processing program on your computer.

You can then send it to your customer via email or

enable people to download it from your website or blog.

However, this format can easily be shared and people can get it for

free, instead of paying for it.

Which means, you don't make any money.

There is nothing you can do to stop people from doing this.

So you sell your PDF, knowing you are taking a risk.

Another option is to put your story on to your blog or website so

that people can read them on the computer or another device, such as a mobile phone.

If you're giving your stories away, readers can download them for free or

you can charge your readers a fee.

The customer receives your writing as a PDF document.

Some websites, such as FanFiction, Storybird and

Figment allow authors to upload their stories.

Then when readers download the stories and read them, they can give feedback.

Authors keep their copyright for their stories and

can remove them from the websites anytime if they want to.

For some sites,

stories can be entered into contests, where there are prizes to win.

You can also upload your stories on to websites that will add an audio, or

sound and music.

Audio books are stories read aloud and recorded on to a device.

The reader listens to the story on their phone or device.

Some companies add sound effects and music to stories.

While the reader reads the story, they listen to music or sounds like animal

noises, someone walking or knocking on a door and these are woven into the story.

It can make spooky stories even scarier, and

helps children who are audio learners engage with the story.

Digital books are sold anywhere from as little as $0.99 to the same price

as a paperback book, the average price is under $10.

However, the books can be pirated.

Pirates download the digital books,

then put it on a website of their own and give it away free or sell it.

If you write to them and ask them to take it down, they will usually do it.

Some people give away their stories for free.

Some people give away eBooks, hoping they'll build up a base of following.

This here has had an unfortunate consequence for authors resulting in

people wanting eBooks for free or for a very cheap price all the time.

For most people, it's not profitable yet.

Your stories can be published by digital experts or digital publishing companies or

you can format them yourself and self-publish them.

When digital books first came out, people said it would make the printed book go out

of fashion, but printed and digital books are still very popular.

People realize there are times when it's easier to read a digital book, like when

away on holiday, because they can read them on a digital device or phone.

They can also store their digital books to read whenever they have to wait for

something, like a bus or plane, but people still enjoy the smell and feel of a book.

It has benefits, such as they don't have to turn it off when in a plane.

They can share printed books with friends and they don't have to worry about

the battery going flat on a device that stores digital books.

Again, there are lots of options to consider in the world of digital

publishing and you don't need to decide right now,

but knowing what's available is helpful.

That's it for now.

See you on the next video.

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