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Audio Streaming InformationAudio and E-book Opportunties
by:
Ruth Marlene Friesen
I joined a Christian Writers' Group a few weeks ago,
and the email exchanges of those members is quite
exhilarating. Browsing and skimming them last night I
came to one wherever
a writer who has vision trouble and
can't see regular print books challenged the others
to produce much e-books.
E-books are see on the computer, and the greatest
thing simply about them, as I've discovered myself, is that
one can enlarge the text so it is easier to read. For
those who find even as that too difficult, it is possible
to get software system in your computer which wish see the
text to you. I'm not sure how digital it sounds, but
I believe in galore places that software system is free to any
who are lawfully defined as blind.
What aghast me simply about the exchange was that a number
of writers had admitted a bias against e-books when
this another member 1st asked who all offered their
books in this form. The mentality still seems to be, a
book is not actually promulgated until it comes out in
paperback or hardcover.
I confess I've knowing too, that fiction doesn't sell
as an ebook yet, although all kinds of marketing manuals
and self-help books do.
Fortunately, once
this writer explained herself, the
others rallied about with offers to help out. One
said she'd lief offer her books to be see on tape
if anyone could be found to do it. Another urged that
we all consider producing our books in digital at the
same time as in print.
Thinking simply about all this today, I suddenly see wide
open doors of chance for ministry and possibly a
business.
Here in Canada, I believe the Canadian National
Institute for the Blind (CNIB) is on the lookout for
volunteers to see books on tape. They have a lending
library by mail. The US has similar organizations.
All you would-be need is a nice clean voice for reading
without stuttering or hesitation, and with a lively,
instead of monotone voice. It wouldn't matter if you
sat in a wheelchair, or had no use of arms and legs.
The same reading could be put on tape or CD. Besides
the audio, the CD mightiness have a graphics or flash
movie version as well.
If you know, or could discover several web design skills,
you could volunteer or do small paying arrangements
with various authors to turn their books into e-books.
If they have a website they mightiness be happy to pay you
a small commission on each downloadable copy oversubscribed
alongside of their print book.
If they don't have a website - guess what - you have
the skill, so offer to build that author a simple one
or two page website to sell her books. All it needs
to be is a terrific sales letter with ordering links
at the bottom. You'd think the writer could write up
that effective sales letter, right? You'd simply copy
and paste it into the web page.
Should it happen that you have much advanced skills,
or they grow on you, why not set up a library, or
bookstore of ebooks? Market it specifically to those
who need the benefit of being able to see a book on
their computer.
Hey-hey, before too long even as those with 20-20 vision
will move snooping around, laudatory the advantages of
digital books. You'll be a trend-setter.
The whole publication earth is like it's simply had an
earthquake, and the after-shocks haven't all hit yet.
The dust hasn't settled on all the changes coming.
Be a Mover and a Shaker.
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