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Book publishing via WordPress

A tool I’m looking into for my project of Zen of Teaching is PressBook, a WordPress-based solution to author, produce and distribute books. PressBooks lets you and your team easily author and output books in multiple formats including: epub, Kindle, … Continue reading

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Books! [Finding]

Many tools help to collect books and articles’ metadata and create a bibliography. WorldCat.org is the latest I found and it captures my attention because it is a very well done tool. First it can find books from all over … Continue reading

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Twitter Books

Cover of The Twitter Book I just got my invitation into Twitter Lists, thus Mashable‘s HowTo article on How To Use Twitter Lists comes quite handy. I’m learning from it, but also from Robert Scoble‘s spicy remarks and advice. However, … Continue reading

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Seth Godin on textbooks

Image byhttp://www.prestonlee.com/archives/67 via CrunchBase Seth on why the textbook industry deserves to die {from edu.blogs.com}. Seth Godin (author of Tribes, among others…) writes an interesting argument favoring the disappearance of textbooks. Yes, textbooks, as those used in classes, he says, … Continue reading

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