Have you been thinking about getting into self-publishing, but unsure of where to start? This workshop might be for you.

A book designer I know, Joel Friedlander, has been writing about self-pub, book design, and the like for some years now. He’s even written a book on the subject. Today i learned that he’s recently decided to offer a workshop called The Self-Publishing Roadmap.

Here’s more from the pitch: “With checklists, tutorials, detailed action plans and an easy to understand style, the Roadmap will get you on the road to publication, and make sure your book is the best it can be. Throughout the course you’ll learn how authors are using the new technologies, new tools and production methods, and new paths to market that are being created almost every day. You’ll get the real-world information you need to make good decisions for your own books.”

The workshop is spread across 5 segments and it comes with extensive PDF docs for you to download.

The Self-Publishing Roadmap

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The Open University will be hosting a webinar tomorrow where it plans to show off a new workflow. Gerald Schmidt, Project Manager, Content & Authoring, will demonstrate the tools necessary to automate the production of media-rich eBooks. The focus of this webinar will be iBooks, not apps, but some of the same techniques were used to convert The Open University‘s OpenLearn web resources to eBooks on iTunes U.

The webinar is tomorrow, June 22, at 10 a.m. Pacific / 1 p.m. Eastern. Audience members can submit questions during the webinar. here’s the info you’ll need in order to attend:

URL: http://webcast.training.apple.com/

Webcast ID: MacLearning

Passcode: 522191

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What do you know about the new Epub standard that is due to be released in a few months?

If the answer is “not much” then I have a webinar you might want to watch. It’s hosted by Aptara, and features Bill McCoy, managing director of the IDPF, and Eric Freese, a member of the EPUB 3 Working Group. This 1 hour webinar will cover specifics on the draft standard as well as what’s new, what’s still on the table,  and what are the most hotly contested issues.

It’s on Thursday, May 12, at 11 am eastern.

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