Young Australian Skeptics — Skeptical Blog Anthology — Now Out!
25Dec. 11
As featured on the fabulous JREF Swift blog! The book is now available to download, as well as purchase in e-book form!
Skeptical Blog Anthology — E-Book Format.
The Skeptical Blog Anthology features essays by: Dr Phillip Plait of “Bad Astronomy”, Dr Karen Stollznow of the Point of Inquiry Podcast, Sharon Hill, Dr Petra Boynton, Brian Thompson of The Amateur Scientist podcast, Skeptic Blog’s Daniel Loxton and Yau-Man Chan, New York City Skeptics’ Lisa Bauer, UK Skeptic Dr Chris French, Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe’s Evan Bernstein and many others.
This book is a collection of reader-nominated blog posts, representing the best of a new wave of online skepticism. Collected over a year, it features a plethora of posts on topics ranging from the vaccination debate, paranormal claims, the ongoing creep of creationism into politics and education, conspiracy theories, homeopathy, outreach, all kinds of alternative medicine and even attempts to tackle the question “What is skepticism?”
Purchase the e-book (pdf) version of the Skeptical Blog Anthology here.
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December 25th, 2011 at 12:49 am
This is something I would be very, very interested in, being a secular student on the Sunshine Coast. I’d much prefer to buy from the Kindle store, if I could, though. As I understand it, it’s not that complicated a process to publish. Try this link, see if it’s a viable option: kdp.amazon.com/self-publishing
December 25th, 2011 at 12:55 am
Hello! I’ve found this link: http://askville.amazon.com/load-ebook-library-pdf-Kindle/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=6429725 — is that of use?
December 29th, 2011 at 4:41 am
Mitchel -
Kindle publishing requires at least some formatting knowledge; it’s not necessarily trivial to undertake, particularly if there are a lot of internal links.
However, any PDF you download can be copied over to your Kindle for reading. Copying it by plugging the reader into a USB port is probably the quickest way.
December 29th, 2011 at 5:31 am
Thanks Warren! We did (or more accurately, Catherine and Joel did!) a LOT of work to get the book out just before Christmas and then even MORE to get the PDF version out. To have more demands placed on us — especially when it was Christmas day? — was a bit much. It’s taken years to get us this far as it is, as first-timers!
If people are able to do a work-around (especially, as you said, due to all the internal links that are inherent with labelling all the blog-posts accurately in the book), with minimal fuss done on our end, that’s brilliant. Thank you!
January 25th, 2012 at 5:57 pm
Hi Mitchel.
Catherine here. I would like to explain our thought process about the book.
Because we wanted more control over the design, we used InDesign to create it instead of Word. This means that we were limited to recreating the file as an interactive pdf, which does include index links and links to the websites where the articles were first published. We felt this was a fair trade off to the beautiful typography we were able to achieve by using InDesign.
If we created it in Word, lulu.com does provide a free ePublishing option which would make the file cross-device friendly but it would look like everything else published from Word. If we ever have any free time, we shall recreate the book in Word so we can ePublish it… but my apologies as I don’t see this happening anytime soon.
The team who put the book together, all work full-time hence why this project took so long but we are very proud of our achievements. It was a jump into the deep end as first time publishers and we are happy with our results but we are finding you can only please some of the people, some of the time… and not everyone.
We truly hope you enjoy the Skeptical Blog Anthology if you chose to purchase the pdf version.
Thank you.