I have started a new business called Quail Publishing. Primarily, this company will publish books on CD Rom. Not your typical eBook, but rather CDs filled with information on many subjects. Each CD is filled with text, pictures, printable documents, and often-multimedia files.
The format of the CDs uses standard html for the text and pictures that can be viewed in any web browser, Adobe Reader provides the engine for printing any documents from the CD and QuickTime is the engine for any viewing or listening to any audio or movie files.
The main topics we plan to cover with these CDs are travel, how-to, history in the twentieth century, biography and autobiographical books, and other informational books. The first book is now ready and offered for sale on the Quail Publishing website.
Survive Disaster, at over 600 megabytes, provides the owner with information on pre-disaster planning and post-disaster recovery. Everything from avalanches to volcanic eruptions is covered in detail. There are printable checklists, emergency cards and evacuation plans along with dozens of movie clips of past disasters. The CD also contains nearly a thousand links to governmental agencies, private relief organizations and news and other information sites. Special sections are devoted to dealing with the disabled, children, pets and livestock. There are also links to child friendly web sites about disasters. This is both a great resource for ensuring the survival of you and your family during a disaster, but also a great teaching resource for anyone interested in the history of or causes of disasters in this country.
I hope everyone that reads this will visit the Quail Publishing and purchase a copy for themselves and their family.
2 comments:
This sounds like a great tool for teaching and learning.
I don't mean to pester you if you've changed your mind, but you mentioned at David's Medienkritik that you had an idea about the effects in past centuries of war and immigration explaining modern Germany - do you still intend to expand on that?
And sorry for the off-topic comment.
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