Everyone can be an author – Convenient, rapid publishing for ordinary people is no longer just a dream人人都是大作家 素人出版方便迅速不是夢
In the past, if you told a friend that you wanted to make a living by writing or drawing comic books, they would have reminded you that publishing houses are very choosy about whose works they decide to publish; they are only willing to accept books that they think will be best-sellers, and they are not interested in helping someone to get published just because they are interested in becoming an author. In reality, however, no-one can ever be sure that a given book will sell well. Even famous authors sometimes write books that flop, and ordinary people can produce first-class books that large numbers of people are willing to buy.
以前如向別人提起想靠寫作和漫畫賺錢，一定會被朋友提醒出版社會挑三揀四嚴格選秀，只挑他們覺得有可能暢銷的作者，不一定願意協助其他有興趣有潛力的人出書。但事實上沒有人能夠保證某本書一定會大賣，知名作家可能寫出賣不好的書，一般人也有可能寫出人人想看的好文章。
Using a website or blog, anyone can produce their own work easily, to satisfy their desire to become a writer. Noted venture capitalist and blogger Jamie C. Lin gives as an example the 26-year-old first-time author Amanda Hocking, who sold her own work for reading on Kindle without having to pay anything to a publishing company. She succeeded in selling over 100,000 copies a month, and made US$1 million in one year. Regarding the new business opportunities that are emerging in the field of “publishing for all,” Makoto Murata, Director of the Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA), who has been visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the Chinese-language ePUB project team of the E-Reading Industry Promotion Alliance’s standards special interest group, points out that, today, many people already disseminate their own writings and comics on their own website or blog, but that, while this can attract more visitors to the site or blog, it is difficult to gain direct monetary benefit from it.
透過網站或是部落格，每個人都能很輕鬆地產生吸引人的文章，滿足自己成為作家的心願。著名創投業者及部落客林之晨就在他的部落格上舉了一個好例子，一位26歲的新銳素人作家Amanda Hocking寫完小說，自行到Kindle發布銷售，少了出版社在中間剝削，每個月可以賣到10萬本以上，一年就能賺進百萬美元
。針對這種新的素人出版商機，應台灣電子閱讀產業推動聯盟標準SIG ePUB中文工作小組之邀，來台的日本電子出版協會技術主任村田真表示，現在有許多人將自己創作的文字、漫畫張貼到網站或部落格上，固然可以增加人氣和流量，但難以直接創造獲利。
Murata says that the steadily evolving ePUB e-book format makes it possible for e-books to be viewed on any e-reading device, allowing authors to focus on the actual writing rather than worrying about which devices will be supported. Once you have created the work online and converted it to ePUB format, you can publish or disseminate it directly for reading on a wide range of different devices.
村田真說，現在不斷演進中的ePUB電子書格式，能夠在各種不同裝置上被閱讀，讓作者能夠專心於創作。只要在網路上書寫一次，就能利用工具直接轉換成ePUB格式，直接出版發布到各種不同裝置上。
以前如向別人提起想靠寫作和漫畫賺錢，一定會被朋友提醒出版社會挑三揀四嚴格選秀，只挑他們覺得有可能暢銷的作者，不一定願意協助其他有興趣有潛力的人出書。但事實上沒有人能夠保證某本書一定會大賣，知名作家可能寫出賣不好的書，一般人也有可能寫出人人想看的好文章。
Using a website or blog, anyone can produce their own work easily, to satisfy their desire to become a writer. Noted venture capitalist and blogger Jamie C. Lin gives as an example the 26-year-old first-time author Amanda Hocking, who sold her own work for reading on Kindle without having to pay anything to a publishing company. She succeeded in selling over 100,000 copies a month, and made US$1 million in one year. Regarding the new business opportunities that are emerging in the field of “publishing for all,” Makoto Murata, Director of the Japan Electronic Publishing Association (JEPA), who has been visiting Taiwan at the invitation of the Chinese-language ePUB project team of the E-Reading Industry Promotion Alliance’s standards special interest group, points out that, today, many people already disseminate their own writings and comics on their own website or blog, but that, while this can attract more visitors to the site or blog, it is difficult to gain direct monetary benefit from it.
透過網站或是部落格，每個人都能很輕鬆地產生吸引人的文章，滿足自己成為作家的心願。著名創投業者及部落客林之晨就在他的部落格上舉了一個好例子，一位26歲的新銳素人作家Amanda Hocking寫完小說，自行到Kindle發布銷售，少了出版社在中間剝削，每個月可以賣到10萬本以上，一年就能賺進百萬美元
。針對這種新的素人出版商機，應台灣電子閱讀產業推動聯盟標準SIG ePUB中文工作小組之邀，來台的日本電子出版協會技術主任村田真表示，現在有許多人將自己創作的文字、漫畫張貼到網站或部落格上，固然可以增加人氣和流量，但難以直接創造獲利。
Murata says that the steadily evolving ePUB e-book format makes it possible for e-books to be viewed on any e-reading device, allowing authors to focus on the actual writing rather than worrying about which devices will be supported. Once you have created the work online and converted it to ePUB format, you can publish or disseminate it directly for reading on a wide range of different devices.
村田真說，現在不斷演進中的ePUB電子書格式，能夠在各種不同裝置上被閱讀，讓作者能夠專心於創作。只要在網路上書寫一次，就能利用工具直接轉換成ePUB格式，直接出版發布到各種不同裝置上。
