| |
The
Downtown Writers Network is a resource for independent writers in central
Ohio.
Located in Columbus, we provide services to freelancers,
businesses that use freelance talent, and all creative writers in the dynamic
mid-Ohio market. |
|
|
The Microsoft Reader
Practical
Applications
The HTML formatting lets you include both images
and tables in your new e-book. ReaderWorks can also create a table of contents
for the book. Of course, what you're working with are Beta versions of both the
Microsoft Reader and ReaderWorks. As you'll discover, there are glitches in
both programs and limits to what they can accomplish. So you probably don't
want to publish your novel using them, at least not yet.
| With
Readerworks, it's easy to produce and upgrade technical manuals and training
materials, complete with graphs and illustrations. |
But
several immediate practical applications come to mind. With ReaderWorks, you
can create electronic documents to exchange with friends, colleagues, editors,
or other writers. The Microsoft Reader includes tools for highlighting text,
searching for words, writing notes, and even drawing freehand pictures the
margins of the e-book. This makes it a good device for editing and annotating
copy.
The same tools make the Reader a useful textbook device. And with
ReaderWorks, teachers can easily create their own illustrated lectures,
lessons, study guides and essays, and post them onto a school web site where
students can download them, saving time, money and paper.
Freelancers
and business writers should give special consideration to the potential
industry applications. With ReaderWorks, it's easy to produce, distribute and
upgrade technical manuals and training materials, complete with graphs and
illustrations. The practicality of having portable manuals on a Reader will be
fully realized when the software is made available on Pocket PCS.
In
short, whatever kind of writer you are, ReaderWorks and the Microsoft Reader
programs have something to offer you, and some skills to teach. These products
provide an opportunity to begin your training with e-book fundamentals. As a
contemporary writer, the more you learn now about the technology now, the
better position you'll be in to profit from it later.
1, 2, 3, 4
|
