P-book on e-publishing

It's ironic, but Hungry Minds (formerly IDG Books) will be releasing Victoria Rosenberg's "ePublishing for Dummies " only in print format. The book will explain how to format and save documents as e-books, how to sell e-books on-line and how to promote your book on-line. The book will include a CD-ROM with sample chapters in various formats, trial software, and links to on-line resources. Rosenberg is the director of technology at Time Warner's ePublishing division iPublish.

In the "I told you so" department, comes the news that Stephen King has decided to suspend publication of "The Plant". As readers of Charles Dickens used to wait at the docks in Boston and New York for the latest installment of David Copperfield, King's readers will have to sit by their computers. Just as the novel has started to take on the writing style of the new Stephen King (as opposed to the King who wrote "Carrie") and getting good reviews, King has decided to drop the project to work on some of the other kajillion books and scripts he has in progress. King says he will resume the project in the future but he doesn't give any time frame. I doubt you will be able to read the rest of the book electronically before it is available in a p-book. This will leave King's harvest of followers in the same netherworld as those who have been waiting for him to complete his "Dark Tower" series. Fortunately, one of the projects King says he will be working on is the "Dark Tower".

In the 100th anniversary year of the Wizard of Oz series, ibooks inc., which has exclusive worldwide rights to republish the only authorized editions of the L. Frank Baum Wizard of Oz novels from the L. Frank Baum Family Trust, has launched its e-book version of the 14 titles and in February will publish the print version.

Ranging in price from $3.95 to $6.95, the e-books currently are available in Microsoft Reader format by ibooks for sale through Barnes & Noble and will also be available soon on the company's "sister" site, ipicturebooks.com. Versions in other e-formats will be available in the near future.

As Elvis fans will attest - Death is not the career impediment it used to be. Orpheus Emerged, a posthumously published novel by Jack Kerouac. is making news. Orpheus Emerged, written in 1945 when Kerouac was 23 and had just fallen in with Ginsberg and his crowd, is the latest "lost classic" to be rediscovered.

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