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Digital Tips
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Disk E-Book
Regardless of your final disk/internet format and file type, E-books are now being marketed as not only a stand alone body of work, but also published in conjunction with a printed and bound (paper) book as a further service to the reader/buyer. Disks can be placed in envelopes or slim-line jewel cases to be delivered (or shrink wrapped) with printed books, or spindles may be attached to the end sheets to secure a CD in a hybrid book. Content ideas for electronic content include:
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Color photos (where black and white were used in the printed book)
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Original manuscript in digital form. Example - prepared in MS Word, the reader can use the Edit+Find command just like a search engine. Also editing & updating can be accomplished by the reader. This makes an excellent handicapped edition that can be shipped with the printed book, or sold separately.
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GEDCOM files (alone, or in addition to other formats such as PDF or HTML) so readers can update and add information in a variety of genealogy programs including Family Tree Maker
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Supplementary material not included in the printed book. Ideas: Documents (letters, vital statistics, etc.) where the book contains transcriptions, "then and now" photo sets, extra photos or pictures not in printed book, family artwork or sketches, and mementos the author couldn't fit in their target page count.
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Audio: messages, family performances, original music, taped letters, etc.
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Family screensaver
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Family desktop theme
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Family puzzles (crossword, find-a-word, etc.)
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Video - if planning to include a DVD
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Fact or fiction files - your notes, unrelated information and "best guesses"
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Etc.!...
E-books fitting the description of #2 or 3 above have also been known to be sold as a stand alone book or even as an "add on" price to the standard book retail.
When making personal CD's it is sometimes enticing to use commercial music. With today's technology it's really easy to pull our favorite songs off our own CD's. However, none of this music should be used if you are selling the books, or making lots of gift copies because that is Copyright theft without Copyright release. Not all is lost though, there is music of all sorts that can be found online that you can use. An online search for public domain music or royalty-free music will find several sites for free or low-fee music. One place to start is http://www.archive.org.
For information
on this subject and more, order our book:
G5505-$10.00 WRITING Family
History Or Genealogy For Pleasure and Profit, by The Gregath Publishing Company,
*updated* 2008. ISBN: 0-944619-00-2, 8½x11",
softbound book, 126 pages, suggestions & examples of all facets of your project
for the typist and/or computer user.
Also available on disk. | SCL
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