Sentences with phrase «technology up to authors»

Your question regarding opening the technology up to authors was especially relevant for me, as it's something I've queried Amazon about in the past year.

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But rather than start up any old publishing company — after all, times and technology have changed in the last century — Gao would build an e-book empire that didn't rely on authors to pump out blockbuster ideas.

«My work has focused on developing technology that translates electrical signals in human muscle into signals that control powered prosthetic limbs — such as decoding muscle signals to tell a prosthetic leg that it needs to walk forward or step up onto a staircase,» says Dr. Helen Huang, senior author of a paper on the work and an associate professor in the joint biomedical engineering program at North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

«We've explored the convergence of two things, location and technology, to come up with a framework for predicting solar panel energy output,» says senior author Tonio Buonassisi, an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT.

The version of Logo the authors use is «object oriented» (and hence up to date) and, apart from one chapter on object - oriented technology, the book can be used with other versions of Logo.

«This is an important demonstration of the possibilities opened up for immunotherapy by DMAb technology to direct in vivo production of antibodies of major relevance to human cancer,» said David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president of The Wistar Institute, director of The Wistar Institute Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center, W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Research, and senior author of the study.

The ekpyrotic model had seemed a little contrived up to this point, notes Alan Guth of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, another author of inflation.

«Atrial fibrillation is a dangerous medical condition present in 2 % of the global population and accounting for up to seven million strokes per year,» said lead author Tero Koivisto, a vice-director of the Technology Research Centre (TRC), University of Turku, Finland.

Water content: 96.7 % This summer veggie — which has the highest water content of any solid food — is perfect in salads, or sliced up and served with some hummus, says Keri Gans, RD, author of The Small Change Diet: 10 Steps to a Thinner and Healthier You and a consultant to Mindbloom, a technology company that makes life - improvement apps.

At Elucidat, Steve Penfold and his team work with online training providers to simplify and speed up authoring processes through more effective uses of technology.

First author Rena has a relatively optimistic perspective regarding the power of technology to transform student learning by opening up exciting, exploratory, and authentic opportunities.

We can advise on how to select and implement your learning technologies, such as Learning Management Systems, use of mobile learning Apps, performance support tools, assessing cloud based solutions, weighing up the pros and cons of different authoring tools, and assessing options for Flash to HTML conversion.

But, like many successful authors, Wanda didn't stay up - to - date on new technology and the radical changes affecting the publishing industry.

They don't know how to differentiate their authors from the rest because they haven't really kept up with the times and technology.

New free eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usageRaleigh, NC, September 13, 2011 — Lulu.com, the leader in self - publishing, announced today the launch of the free Lulu EPUB Converter, a tool allowing content creators to convert popular word processing formats, such as a Word document, into sellable EPUBs, the most widely adopted format used by eReaders.

New free eBook converter technology speeds up time to market for self - published authors seeking to capitalize on growing e-reader usage

From the perspective of assistive technologies, ARIA gives authors the ability to dress up HTML and SVG elements with critical accessibility semantics that the assistive technologies would not otherwise be able to reliably derive.

Also notable, readers are committing to the technology, with almost 50 % of ereading consumers saying they would wait up to three months to read a new ebook from a favorite author rather than reading the same book immediately in print.

-- Formatting HTML newsletters — Formatting books for Smashwords — Research about the business side of being an author (e.g., how Street Teams work, how to market a book in a foreign language, podcasts that might be a good fit to have you as a guest, etc.)-- Scouting for bloggers to send book review requests to — Pitching to those bloggers and tracking responses — Formatting (and perhaps light editing) of blog posts, or organizing content — Managing your Street Team Facebook group (posing questions to keep the group engaged, answering questions, sharing upcoming news, etc.)-- Creating box sets in Scrivener from individual novels — Moving works translated into a foreign language from Word into Scrivener — Scheduling tweets and Facebook posts (ones that don't require your direct input or engagement with your audience)-- Transcribing audio interviews or notes — For non-fiction authors, VAs can do an enormous number of tasks around webinars or other training you offer (e.g., planning and booking the event, scheduling guests, managing registration lists, dealing with the back - end technology, creating and proofing slide decks, sending out advance information packages to the trainees, and then sending out follow - up information to the trainees, etc..)

Re Lucian's concern i think publishing will continue to morph and new alliances of writers, journalist, curators, illustrators, translators and social & mobile geeks will collaborate on ways to create ebooks, enhanced ebooks, interactive books — and additional distribution channels along with amazon... and increasingly what we create can be agnostic of technology, available on any devise, Mathew's coverage has been in - depth, up - to - date and writing for a wide audience... as a former JSJ reporter who is interested in this area i am in awe of his writing, and thankful for it, like so many others here evidentally are... maybe you, Matthew, will author your own Amazon - supported book?

When self - publishing first became affordable through print - on - demand technology, a range of author service companies sprang up to provide very affordable POD publishing packages.

As the publishing industry changes — a nearly daily occurrence, as the trends and technology struggle to keep up — the role of the author is changing as well.

With the new technology available to authors considering digital publishing, a new breed of self - publishing is opening up to authors with a minimum of computer skills: the book as app.

Yet during the past 15 years, though advances in print - on - demand book technology and now, a growing interest in digital books, there are a wide - array of services that enable would - be authors the opportunity to place books into the marketplace without having to pay «vanity publishers» to print up hundreds of books.

While it may be true that the «Gold Rush» is already on the wane, it's also possible that for some time yet, other vendors and technologies will keep popping up to give authors more and more options.

Ebooks are here to stay and it is up to authors and publishers to use this technology wisely so that it functions to everyone's advantage, author, publisher and reader.

These are all useful things but again, for the author that is technology - challenged or isn't active or familiar with social media sites, there will be added costs to set up a FaceBook page or to hire someone who can handle the social media aspect of the author's life.

He teamed up with technology expert Shawn Welch to write this engagingly written guide for aspiring authors.

Keeping your author website up to date using modern technologies is therefore necessary in order to retain current visitors and also attract new users.

New POD publishers were marketing their services with dirt - cheap introductory packages — as low as $ 99 — to entice authors fed up with rejection to find success through this no - print - run - required technology.

As much as tech experts in publishing can talk about how ePUB3 will make a radical difference in the possibilities authors and publishers can offer to their readers, until all sectors of the industry catch up to the technology, there will be a period of slippage.

During ALA TechSource's Annual Tech Wrap - Up on July 8, Marshall Breeding, director for innovative technologies and research for Vanderbilt University Libraries and author of the Library Technology Guides website, described this change as it applied to integrated library systems.

Indie authors are no exception and the marketplace, (albeit at times reluctantly) readers, and technology are rising up to meet them.

This shift in technology opens up an entire new market to authors because they are no longer dependent upon brick and mortar stores and transportation highways for potential new readers to access their digital books.

We need to start thinking in practical terms about how to get the technologies we need ready — as the authors say, «deep energy system decarbonization is likely to require an ambitious, focused agenda of rapid innovation and improvement in every critical technology area, even those commercially available today, as well as substantial «demand pull» efforts and policies to ensure early demonstration, industry maturation, scale - up, and «learning by doing.

ENERGYSTOCKS.COM three - part interview by Bill Paul, former Wall Street Journal reporter and author of «Future Energy: How the New Oil Industry Will Change People, Politics and Portfolios» with what he grandly calls «Foremost Plug - in Car Expert Felix Kramer» Explosion of Hybrid & Electric Cars Coming in 2010 - 2012 http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=898 New Technology May Cut Gas Use Up to 50 % in EXISTING Cars http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=907 How Next U.S. President Will End America's Oil Addiction http://energytechstocks.com/­wp/­?p=909

I think the authors» keenness to wrap up the «inevitability» of one set of profound technological changes in Davos - friendly boosterism while not giving any serious discussion to other relevant and complementary technologies makes the paper less than it could have been.

In order for nanotechnology not to be another case study on how NOT to introduce a new technology to society, Nature Nanotechnology study authors Steffen Foss Hansen, Andrew Maynard, Anders Baun and Joel A. Tickner warn that nanotechnology needs to quickly catch up in terms of standards and research.

The nuclear industry will need more support in taking new technologies from the university lab to start - up companies, the authors find, and more explicit recognition of the public health benefits of nuclear compared with other energy sources.

First, if you don't have a copy of the latest edition of «The Cybersleuth's Guide to the Internet,» written by Carole Levitt, a lawyer and law librarian, and Mark E. Rosch, long time legal technology author and speaker, I highly recommend you pick one up.

Attorneys just getting up to speed on mobile computing technology should read this very informative essay on wireless connectivity published on The Complete Lawyer website and authored by Tom Alexander, President of CLC Technology in Granite Bay California, which specializes in web - based client attorney collaboration software, attorney firm extranets and collaborative networktechnology should read this very informative essay on wireless connectivity published on The Complete Lawyer website and authored by Tom Alexander, President of CLC Technology in Granite Bay California, which specializes in web - based client attorney collaboration software, attorney firm extranets and collaborative networkTechnology in Granite Bay California, which specializes in web - based client attorney collaboration software, attorney firm extranets and collaborative network software.

According to the paper's authors, «cryptocurrencies have provided us with the new funding model, which can be used by non-profit organisations, start - ups and networks to rapidly develop the use of the decentralized cryptographic technology in numerous different industries.»