Ebooks and Accessibility

[ysabetwordsmith.livejournal.com]

I'm hosting a discussion of ebooks and their accessibility to vision-impaired people. This started when a friend was thinking about writing an article on the topic and called for input.

However, I am also thinking about releasing some of my writing in ebook format, and I'd like it to be accessible to a wide audience. I suspect this may be a useful niche for crowdfunded projects, stuff like novels, short story collections, poetry collections, etc. because the overall selection of accessible titles is a lot lower than mainstream print titles. So if you drop, say, your SF ebook into a pool of 1,000 ebooks then its competition is much lower compared to the tens of thousands of print books it would compete with on an ordinary bookshelf.

Other folks are invited to join the discussion if you are interested in accessible literature and/or publishing your writing in an accessible format.

Pay what you want for a PDF of GUD

[kaolinfire.livejournal.com]

Perhaps on the edge of proper crowd-funding, but from the profile this seems a fairly open community, so I thought I would put this out there:

In the vein of Radiohead and more recently World of Goo (an indie game dev company that did this a year after their release, to much success), GUD is (at least through the beginning of December) available as PDF for whatever you want to pay (well, a penny or more; no chickens!).

http://tr.im/gudpwyw




And if you can't spare a few cents but could spare a digg to get the word out, we'd really appreciate it! http://digg.com/arts_culture/magazine_tests_pay_what_you_want_model_ala_Radiohead_WoG

Also note that GUD Magazine pays semi-pro rates up front, but considers that an advance on royalties. So any money in goes towards helping us pay our contribs pro rates "or better"! :)