Publishers Cafe

Summer Camp Jobs USA (new book and ebook bargain)

noreply@blogger.com (Zorba) — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 20:36:00 +0000

Zorba Press has just released the 2009 edition of their new guide:

Summer Camp Jobs USA
How to Find Your Job, Get Your Job and Love Your Job
by Michael Pastore
ISBN: 978-0-927379-95-3

The 204-page book describes how to find jobs at summer camps. Special sections have been added for international students who want to find work in America; and for high-schools students seeking employment in these difficult times.

Called "the best bargain in publishing today", the paperback sells for $ 18, while the ebook -- which contains all the same information as the paperback -- sells for only one dollar. You do not need to purchase the paperback before buying the ebook.

The ebook is available in two formats: .PDF or .epub.

For more information:
--See the book's companion website: http://www.SummerCampJobsUSA.com
or
--The page about how to buy the .PDF ebook for $ 1 http://www.lulu.com/content/5750220

Instant Drama eBook updated to version 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:14:00 +0000

Instant Drama: How to Lead Improvisational Drama Games With Kids

Read more at the book's web page:
Instant Drama eBook

Zenlightenment! The Quintessence of Human Wisdom About Life, Love and Happiness

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 02:04:00 +0000

Zorba Press released an updated version of their remarkable anthology, Zenlightenment!

Read more at the book's web page:
Zenlightenment! The Quintessence of Human Wisdom About Life, Love and Happiness

Thoreau Bound -- a comic novel -- is Published by Zorba Press

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:15:00 +0000

Zorba Press has just released an ebook version of the comic novel

Thoreau Bound --
A Utopian Romance in the Isles of Greece

Read more about the new novel,
Thoreau Bound

New eBook: Find Summer Camp Jobs in the USA

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:16:00 +0000

Zorba Press has just released the 2005 edition of their popular guide:

Summer Camp Jobs USA

The 41-page eBook describes how college-age persons can find jobs at camps in America. The ebook can be read on-sccreen, or printed with your home or office printer. The eBook sells for $ 2.95 USD.

Special sections have been added for international students who want to find work in America.

For more information, see the book's web page at
Summer Camp Jobs eBook

New Releases from Zorba Press

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:06:00 +0000

Zorba's newest releases and updates can be found here: http://www.ZorbaPress.com/books/newbooks.html

Zorba Press Launches New Site Design

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 03:29:00 +0000

Zorba Press is now re-open, with classic ebooks and original ebooks and paperbacks.

The entire site has been re-designed using Cascading Style Sheets, and XHTML, in full compliance with W3C standards.

New Project Gutenberg Consortia Center

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Thu, 04 Nov 2004 18:51:00 +0000

The Project Gutenberg Consortia Center opened today, featuring 27,000 ebooks in HTML. The genius behind this effort is Michael Hart, and the ebooks are available at an unbeatbale low price -- free.

Vist the new Center today!
http://www.pgcc.net

26 Benefits of Ebooks

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 14:36:00 +0000

26 Benefits of Ebooks (by Michael Pastore)

Author James Michener liked to write large books, he said, because once, when standing in a store that was being robbed, he was shot in the posterior, and the bullet passed through his back pocket and then lodged on page 450 of his novel.

Ebooks can't do that. But here are some beneficial features of electronic publications that make ebooks an invaluable supplement to the paper-based books we know and love.

1. Ebooks promote reading. People are spending more time in front of screens and less time in front of printed books.

2. Ebooks, faster to produce than paper books, allow readers to read books about current issues and events.

3. Ebooks are easily updateable, for correcting errors and adding information.

4. Ebooks are searchable. Quickly you can find anything inside the book. Ebooks are globally searchable: you can find information in many ebooks.

5. Ebooks are portable. You can carry an entire library on one DVD.

6. Ebooks preserve books. The library of Alexandria was burned and the collection ruined. Richard Burton's wife, after his death and against his wishes, destroyed a book he had been working on for ten years. The original manuscript of Carlyle's The French Revolution was lost when a friend's servant tossed it into the fire. Ebooks are ageless: they do not burn, mildew, crumble, rot, or fall apart. Ebooks ensure that literature will endure.

7. Ebooks are good for the environment. Ebooks save trees. Ebooks eliminate the need for filling up landfills with old books. Ebooks save transportation costs and the pollution associated with shipping books across the country and the world.

8. Ebooks can be printable: and thereby give a reader most or all of the advantages of a paper-based book.

9. Ebooks defy time: they can be delivered almost instantly.

10. Ebooks defy space: ebooks online can be read simultaneously by thousands of people at once.

11. Ebooks are cheaper to produce and to purchase.

12. Ebooks are free. The magnificent work of Project Gutenberg, and other online public libraries, allow readers to read the classics at no cost.

13. Ebooks can be annotated without harming the original work.

14. Ebooks make reading accessible to persons with disabilities. Text can be resized for the visually impaired. Screens can be lit for reading in the dark.

15. Ebooks can be hyper-linked, for easier access to additional information.

16. Ebooks -- with additional software and hardware -- can read aloud to you.

17. Ebooks let you tweak the style. Many ebooks allow readers to change the font style, font size, page size, margin size, colors, and more.

18. Ebooks may allow the option for the addition of multimedia: still images, moving images, and sound.

19. Ebooks, with their capacity for storage, encourage the publishing of books with many pages, books that might be too expensive to produce (and purchase) in paperback.

20. Ebooks are evolving. As technology develops, ebooks may contain new features. For example, a book of recipes may contain a recipe calculator to figure how much maple syrup is needed to bake 200 cookies. An ebook that prepares you for the GRE could include an interactive test. An ebook about politics might allow you to click a link and register to vote, or send an email to a Presidential candidate that tells him he is not a good environmental steward.

21. Ebooks empower individuals to write and to publish, and in this way help to challenge "the crushing power of big publishing", that excludes so many authors from the New York City publishing circus. Publishing can move from the impersonal and profitable, to the personal and pleasurable.

22. Ebooks allow publishers to publish (and readers to read) works by a larger number of authors, and works on a wider variety of topics. Critics of traditional book publishing (such as Jason Epstein and Andre Schriffin) state that economic pressures have reduced and limited the number of authors and topics that traditional publishers will now produce.

23. Ebooks defeat attempts at censorship. All these works were banned: Analects by Confucius. Lysistrata by Aristophanes. Ars Amorata by Ovid. Pro Populo Anglicano Defensio by John Milton. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne. Wonder Stories by H.C. Anderson. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Ulysses by James Joyce. ... Many of these books were confiscated, burned, or denied availability in libraries, bookstores and schools. Ebooks guarantee that readers maintain their right to read.

24. Ebooks -- thanks to the simplicity and speed of publication and feedback -- allow authors to experiment in many themes and styles.

25. Ebooks help paperbook publishers to sell paperbooks. Cory Doctorow has explained that the giving away of ebooks, for free, has helped to sell the paperback editions of his stories and novels.

26. Ebooks are good for paperbook publishing. By setting an example for diversity and freedom of expression, ebooks may motivate the stagnant book publishing industry towards the renewal of small presses, the end of the blockbuster-bestseller publishing mentality, and a healthier balance between the needs of commerce and culture.

Note: this article, 26 Benefits of Ebooks, is excerpted from the forthcoming ebook: Epublishers Weekly Guide to Ebooks and Electronic Publishing.

Siddartha by Hermann Hesse - now an ebook!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 17:06:00 +0000

Zorba's ebook edition of Siddartha, by Hermann Hesse, is bilingual in German and English. The German-language version is provided in normal print size; while the English contains regular print and large 18-point print. Income from the sale of this book will be donated to Project Gutenberg.

Click here to read more about our bilingual edition of Siddartha.

New Ebook about Editing & Revising Nonfiction and Fiction

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 12:59:00 +0000

Coming soon! ... A new ebook about editing and revising nonfiction and fiction. Watch Publishers Cafe for details about the book, and for the official release.

Epublishers Weekly Quick Guide to Editing & Revising Nonfiction and Fiction
by Michael Pastore
ISBN: 0-927379-06-6
PDF ebook (printable), $ 9.95
Version 1.0, September 2004

Publishers Cafe To Launch in September!

noreply@blogger.com (Michael Pastore) — Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:58:00 +0000

A new blog, Publishers Cafe, will launch on September 8, 2004.

Do you love books? ... Visit the Publishers Cafe!

The cafe will feature reviews by our staff, and links to essays and articles of interest to readers, publishers, and writers.