- book design, E-books, ebooks, Immersive Fiction, interactive books, interactive fiction, myebooks, read an e-book week, writer's block, writing
Building Better E-books
Why don’t we have tons of dynamic, interactive, visually stunning e-books? The potential has been there for years. It has been there since project Gutenberg launched its e-text repository. It has grown with the first experiments in hypertext fiction and interactive adventure stories. The development of programming languages and scripts, advances in graphic design using HTML and CSS, all opened the doors to possibilities for building better books. Yet when I downloaded Calibre the other night and finally catalogued all of my 1,016 e-books, I was struck by how little evolution we’ve seen in the book. Most were plain text. A few had pictures. At one time websites were just text…
Bond Blogs
My Blogging Bondage Chef, Jacques Bond, is cooking up a Mind Candy special over at the Otherworld Diner Today. He offers some treats to tempt your creative mind.
Blogging Tips for Beginners:Linking
There would be no WWW without links. Links make the web, one page to another, one idea to another, one person to another. There should be no blog post without links. Not only do links take your readers to more information about a topic, they provide breadcrumb trails for readers at those other sites to find you. In the blogger world they call this trail a trackback. I know, we all groan and roll our eyes over terms but this one actually means what it says, it provides a track for readers to follow back to your blog from the one you quoted. In Flock linking and quoting are geek-free…