Book Publishing By Web Page
    Maintain and Grow Your Web Pages into a Published Book



    CONTENTS



    Preface: This book-proposal Web page is an example of itself . . . . . . . . . iv
    1. iUniverse offers comprehensive self-publishing services for authors. All packages feature custom cover design, marketing toolkit, author support and more.
      1. Write chapters according to a template.
      2. For each intended book chapter, cultivate a Web page as a rough draft.
      3. Harvest the Web pages into the submission of a book manuscript.
    2. A case history: The AI4U textbook
      1. Amazon.co.uk ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/)
      2. Amazon.com ( http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0595259227/ )
      3. B&N ( http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp?ISBN=0595259227)
      4. Advanced Book Exchange ( http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookSearchPL?ph=2&sn=0595259227)
    3. Techniques of webpage-as-book-chapter development
      1. Avoid graphics; concentrate on text.
      2. Make each screen "scrapable".
      3. Prepare an index as you go.
      4. Use a book-chapter text width, e.g., 65 characters.
      5. Use 8-character webpage filenames.
    4. Create a mock-up of the book-to-be-published.
      1. Use the website index.html file as a "Table of Contents" (TOC).
      2. Insert individual webpage print-outs as rough-draft chapters.
      3. If necessary, keep some book elements in reserve as non-webpages.
    5. Submit the manuscript.
    6. Promote your book.
      1. Do-It-Yourself Book Promotion
    7. Discussion Forums
      1. Computer Book Authors ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/computerbookauthors/)
      2. Web2Book Blog ( http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Affil/?21031/Blog.aspx/web2book/)
    Epilogue
      Consider getting an agent
      Obtaining reviews of your book
        Crucial Info is an example.
        BookLinker is a weblog about books.
    Appendix A: Sample chapters of the published AI4U book
    • main aLife program loop for robot artificial intelligence
    • Security module
    • Human-Computer Interface
    • (Motorium)
    • (Volition)
    • the Think module
    • English syntax for thinking
    • Ask Module for asking questions
    • wtAuxSDo question module
    • negSVO subject-verb-object negation module
    • auxVerb Module for reasoning with auxiliary verbs
    • SVO subject-verb-object syntax
    • Conjoin module for conjunctions
    • verbPhrase module
    • nounPhrase module
    • Speech output/display module
    • reEntry module
    • Reify module
    • (Emotion in Robots)
    • Ego self-assertion module
    • Rejuvenate module for cyborg immortality
    • enBoot English bootstrap
    • Sensorium module
    • Audition module
    • Listen module
    • auditory Short Term Memory
    • Auditory Recognition comparator
    • newConcept machine learning module
    • oldConcept associative memory module
    • the Parser module
    • enVocab English vocabulary module
    • Instantiate module for each instance of a concept
    • Activate module for activating concepts
    • spreadAct module for spreading activation
    Appendix B: Index
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    Last updated: 8 March 2004
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