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Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Is there a website that one can sell their ebooks on?' in the group Small Publishers and Independent Authors

Gwyn, Blio will be very nice for those who can use materials on a computer in eBook formats. However, my teaching materials are meant to be printed and used in the classroom. From what I understand, and I could be mistaken, eReadering devices and…

Jun 10, 2010

Lisa Kathryn commented on the blog post 'If You Could Give She Writes Superpowers, What Would You Do To Make It Fly?'

I would love to have a "readers 'n writers" bookshop akin to a farmers' market. I imagine a place where writers could sell their works and readers could browse genres and each could engage the other directly. I do this every week…

May 14, 2010

Lisa Kathryn commented on the blog post 'The Techie: On Facebook and the Increasing Erosion of Digital Privacy'

Thank you Mia for this post. I do not really understand much about Facebook's policies, privacy or otherwise. Therefore, the information provided is really helpful and greatly appreciated. I make it a practice not to provide my real name or a…

May 5, 2010

Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Is there a website that one can sell their ebooks on?' in the group Small Publishers and Independent Authors

I found a couple of other sites where writers can sell their works, Sribd and DocStoc. They are both well established. Like Smashwords and Off the Bookshelf, neither provide ways to control infringement, but they look like good ways for authors and…

Apr 30, 2010

Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Copyright Protection & Digital Distribution' in the group Copyright and Intellectual Property

Emily, I started a discussion, Watermarking & Micropublishing, in this group when I was alerted to a potential solution to rampant copyright infringement on the Web. More information can be found in that discussion. In a nutshell, during my…

Apr 26, 2010

Emily Kennedy replied to the discussion 'Copyright Protection & Digital Distribution' in the group Copyright and Intellectual Property

I just saw this. Great question. I am anxiously awaiting the answer as well. I sent my manuscript to the US Copyright Office in Washington with a fee for a copyright. On their website, indications were that although my certificate won't arrive…

Apr 26, 2010

Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Watermarking & Micropublishing' in the group Copyright and Intellectual Property

To all who may be interested in anti-piracy systems for eBooks and PDF files, here is what I learned about SavoirSoft. It is both web-based application you can put on your own web-sites or if you don't have a web-site, it is a micro-publishing…

Apr 23, 2010

Copyright Protection & Digital Distribution

I understand that copyright laws protect all forms of my curricula and books. But how can copyrights really protect digital materials, eBooks, PDF files, etc?From what I hear, most BIG publishers effectively protect their copyrights for digital materials by "licensing" it to the users and watermark it accordingly. Are there similar services available to independent writers and small publishers?For instance, if I allow teachers to download my books from the Internet, can't they just send copies…See More

Lisa Kathryn added a discussion to the group Copyright and Intellectual Property Apr 19, 2010

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Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Watermarking & Micropublishing' in the group Copyright and Intellectual Property

Nils, Thank you for your reply. I have found a site called SavoirSoft that I am investigating. It is a new service and seems like something that would work for me. I will let others know the pro's and con's after my research of them is…

Apr 16, 2010

Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Is there a website that one can sell their ebooks on?' in the group Small Publishers and Independent Authors

For those using Smashwords, Off the Bookshelf, and other eBook sites; do you know how they keep buyers of your electronic books from copying and giving them away to others? I'm told that people using eReaders cannot copy eBooks and give them…

Apr 6, 2010

Lisa Kathryn replied to the discussion 'Is there a website that one can sell their ebooks on?' in the group Small Publishers and Independent Authors

I too only have PDFs of my kindergarten teaching materials and they really don't lend themselves to eReaders since they are used in the classroom. Also, I don't have any HTML skills. So a friend suggested a new site that lets me upload my…

Mar 31, 2010

Watermarking & Micropublishing

As a kindergarten teacher and author of curricula and simple songs that make learning fun, I am not sure I am in the same league as the rest of you. But I will stick my neck out anyway and ask the question.I have been told of a simple solution that allows my workbooks, songs, and other materials to sold and distributed in PDF form to fellow teachers while still protecting my copyrights. The solution is to license my materials through a micro-publishing marketplace on the Internet.Has anyone…See More

Lisa Kathryn added a discussion to the group Copyright and Intellectual Property Mar 30, 2010

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Copyright and Intellectual Property

This Group will cover issues relating to copyright law and relevant issues of intellectual property law to writers.

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Small Publishers and Independent Authors

For writers focused on the entreprenuerial side of the writing industry to share innovations, pitfalls and business models.

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I'm learning how to publish my early childhood teaching curricula so it can be provided to and used by other teachers.

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Lisa Kathryn is now a member of She Writes Mar 17, 2010

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Media outlets that I currently write for:: No media outlets, just my kindergarten class

My writing is:: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry

Services I offer to other writers:: no

I'm part of these writers' groups or salons:: yes

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I'm a teacher who loves to create curricula for early childhood educators that is both fun and useful for their students. I am trying to sell some of my teaching materials in PDF form over the Internet. However, I haven't figured out how to protect my copyrights for the soft-copy versions of my curricula I sell over the Web.

It would be nice to learn from writers and publishers how they have protected their copyrights for soft-copy versions of their materials distributed over the Internet.

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While I agree that we can get carried away and even use prompts and exercises as effective avoidance techniques to tell ourselves, well, we ARE writing something, I found two books and a couple of classes to be enormously helpful in getting me going…

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This is so beautiful. Thank you for your generous spirit and for sharing it. I am slowly working on a memoir that has been "near finished" for two years. I'm struggling not to let writing be "the first to go," when life gets…

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