Linux as a Publishing Platform: Here’s a great little article about how an independent role-playing game publisher used about a dozen free Linux tools to publish and support his first role-playing game. Just a nice narrative of how all the pieces came together, and how they were mostly all free.
This book project could not have happened without Linux. The high level of integration between separate tools simplified Clinton’s workflow. The fact that he did not need to invest money in software kept his start-up costs down. Even with his print run of 150 books, he was able to recoup expenses and turn a profit within his first two months of publication.
We’ve talked about self-publishing before, and the geek/offline gaming connection too.
Here's a high correlation: computer geeks and role-playing and war game players. If you're a programming or hardware geek, there's a good chance you've played Dungeons and Dragons, Axis and Allies, or Magic: The Gathering. There's no scientific basis for this — it's all empirical — but I…
Do-it-yourself book publishing takes off on the Web: Good article about the phenomenon of on-demand book printing, which is the Next Big Thing in book publishing. We've talked this before, both with the Internet Bookmobile, and with Packt Publishing, who prints all their books on-demand. Instead, the Seattle residents —…
