subject: Publishing A Book - Opening Yourselves On Critics [print this page] Publishing A Book - Opening Yourselves On Critics
Have you ever heard about the book burning? Have you ever heard the book forbidding?
Whatever public say about Salman Rushdie, his quote answers the rhetorical questions above:
"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return."
So, when such book burning and book forbidding still happens, less version exist. It means, less creativity.
Open source deals with creativity. Hence, publishing a book as another version offer which relates to creativity deals with open source too.
For writers and of course authors, there could be a feeling at some point or another of being anxious to see the work bound and printed into a book.
The answer of this rhetorical question, "Do we have to publish a book, to make ourselves so called' writer or author?" is "it depends on your anxiety level to see the work bound and printed into a book".
There are websites which offers you a way to publish a book. We may see that publishing a book is not only as an actualization on our self esteem or pride but also as a way to free our mind.
Thanks to the technology development, now we have e-book besides printed ones. But are there any differences?
Both e-book and the printed one have their own positive and negative sides.
Let's check both what they have on their side.
Printed Book:
It requires trees to get the papers to print it but they don't normally cause significant eye-strain.
Paper books could be heavy, or even bulky just imagine the text book. To carry more than two or three printed books around can become an undertaking thing to solve.
You need a light source to read it - another undertaking you'll probably need to solve than you have to carry a light source around.
E-Book:
It is much more environmentally friendly for it doesn't require trees but it requires electricity to get the technology used.
They're easily portable. You can carry multiple books on one device. They're also easily readable. Most readers offer zoom functions, letter resizing, and so forth. But you still have battery life of the digital reader to worry about.
Lighting conditions essentially become meaningless. The tool to read E-Book incorporates display lighting which allows you to read without light source around. But you may get eye strain and RSI. Long periods spent in front of a computer are healthy for nobody.
Whatever your choice with this book publishing is, you need to consider that, people might like or dislike your idea(s) with the book. The critics after somehow can improve your idea(s) when you let your mind open. An open mind as open source, go to creativity.
