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1. peterb
   Member

   Tim,

   I very much enjoyed the SCORE workshop in Salem 10/29/09.

   I am in the process of writing a book about good industrial practices based on my 30 years of experience at TEK and HP, as well as 10 years of college teaching. I expect it to be ~120 pages long. My intent is to be personal, concise, and informative.

   Last winter I put together a wikibook as part of a graded course - lots of student help. It suffers from lack of editing (my bad) and I don't think anybody has looked at it but me, so I question its utility. But some of the content is very good. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Concurrent_Engineering

   You made a comment that book publishing may not be the best way to publish. What would you recommend?

   Peter M. Burke, Ph.D.
   Burke Technical Consulting LLC
   541-758-5320

   burkmace@peak.org
   peterburke@rocketmail.com

   Posted 3 years ago #

2. Tim Striegel
   Ronin Studios Team

   I'm glad you enjoyed the workshop and thank you for attending.

   Though I am not making a hard recommendation, I would encourage you to look in to publishing an eBook as a possible alternative. I believe you mentioned you were going to self-publish. As you know, this means the production costs as well as the marketing and distribution costs will fall on your shoulders. With eBooks, the production costs are very low and the distribution options are endless. Also, be sure to consider your target demographic -- if it's college students or recent grads, it is likely they are already accustomed to reading text online.

   And finally, don't overlook the fact that eBooks are searchable. Is this the type of text that would later be used as a reference? If so, this may also be one of your considerations.

   Good luck!

   Posted 3 years ago #

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