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Microsoft 's Vice President for Technical Development, Dick Brass, was once quoted assaying,"by the year 2020 ninety percent of everything we read will be in electronicform"
The current trend certainly does support this philosophy. Undoubtedly, we are wellinto the "information age" and the internet makes it easy to satisfy the mostvoracious appetite for information. People are hungry for solutions; they craveinformation and are willing to pay for it. E-books have become the perfect way tofeed this growing thirst for knowledge. With on demand availability and easy access,they are the perfect information vehicle.
Pew Internet and American Life Project, a non-profit research center studying thesocial effects of the internet on Americans, ran a national phone survey in 2003.They discovered that more than 53 million Americans have contributed to theexplosion of content available online, and proved that the old maxim is true: Anyonecan be a publisher on the Web, and many internet users are publishers in one form oranother.
So what about the technically challenged? There are many talented people out there,but until now the logistics for publishing a professional e-book would discourageall but the most determined and non techno-phobic.
Consider this, in order to publish an e-book, the aspiring digital author has tobecome proficient in several complicated programs, then navigate the maze ofapplications to get the book up on the Web, all at considerable cost.
Not many people have the time, patience or funds to go through this very frustratingprocess.
Joe Clayton, CEO of Creative Software has addressed all of these concerns admirablywith his new multimedia digital authoring software, DeadEasy E-book Maker(http://snipurl.com/kzci )
In his words, "DeadEasy opens the door of opportunity to ANYONE who chooses to grabthe chance to carve out their own publishing business and compete on a level playingfield with the big guys."
He has eliminated the need for several software applications to produce high qualitytext and audio, in fact DeadEasy surpasses the quality of many e-book creationsoftware applications on the market today.
The biggest advantage however, is that this software has removed the steep learningcurve and frustrating trial and error approach so that truly anyone can master thisprogram and produce saleable quality digital products. He has even provided videotutorials with the program and free hosting for the finished product in his "EbookMall."
Clearly this product is going to revolutionize the electronic publishing industry.To quote Dick Brass again, "New voices are going to emerge; no books will go out ofprint. this will be the golden age of literature."
Possibilities abound from ebooks to digital photo albums to teaching aids; computernewbies self publishing their own ebooks is most definitely a fact!
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