Contact info and FAQs
The main people behind TeleRead are:
Editors
Paul Biba - Co-Editor – an international corporate lawyer by trade, Paul is well known for his TeleRead contributions and as iPhone Editor for PalmAddicts and chief U.S. equipment reviewer for GPS Passion. Paul lives in New Jersey and has been mentioned in the New York Times in an article about e-books and the Christian Science Monitor in an e-book article as well. (paulkbiba at gmail.com)
David Rothman – Founder and Editor/Publisher – David is author of The Solomon Scandals, a newspaper novel, as well as of six nonfiction books published by Ballantine, St. Martin’s Press and others. While David and Paul originate many posts for the TeleRead Web Log, aka the TeleBlog, we welcome contributions from others. (davidrothman at pobox.com, 805 North Howard St., Alexandria, VA., 22304, telephone 703-370-6540)
Writers
Steve Jordan – Senior Writer – is a prolific writer and his books and writings can be found at stevejordanbooks.com. Steve lives in Germantown, MD, and lists his talents as writer, illustrator, designer, futurist, inventor, traditional draftsman, motorcyclist and web designer/developer. He has also contributed his time and web talents to building the website for Read an E-Book Week.
Chris Meadows – Senior Writer - Chris has a degree in Mass Media and another in Computer Information Systems. Most of Chris’s professional experience is in the customer service and technical writing fields. Chris has always enjoyed writing, participating in several fiction writing circles before starting his own blog and joining TeleRead. He has also been on the moderation team of two separate Usenet newsgroups. He is currently helping to organize a small gaming convention,Springfield G.A.M.E., at springfieldgame.com. Chris can be found at www.terrania.us.
Court Merrigan – Senior Writer – Originally from Nebraska, Court Merrigan has lived in various places East and West and is currently back in the US with his family. His short stories have appeared in Blackbird, Weber Review, Porcupine, Evergreen Review, The Summerset Review, Dublin Quarterly, The Kyoto Journal, Pindeldyboz, Identity Theory, and Angle, among others. He is currently working on a novel. He blogs at Endless Emendation. You can reach him at court.merrigan at gmail.com.
Kat Meyer – Senior Writer – Kat is a long-time veteran of the publishing industry. Her background includes both editorial and marketing experience working for a number of regional and national trade and academic publishers. She is currently the Chief Content Wrangler for Next Chapter Communications, a PR and marketing consultancy serving members of the book publishing community. She blogs about books and publishing at FollowtheReader.wordpress.com, and on somet things bookish, and somethings not at TheBookishDilettante.com. On Twitter she’s @KatMeyer.
Robert Nagle - Senior Writer – is a Houston-based technical writer with a background in literature and teaching. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and writes pseudonymous fiction. For many years Robert was TeleRead’s webmaster. (idiotprogrammer at fastmailbox.net). A list of selected essays on literature and culture can be found on his idiotprogrammer blog.
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FAQ
I submitted a comment, but it didn’t appear. What should I do?
What’s the deal about that sidebar on the right side? When are you going to fix that?
How do I submit articles for TeleRead?
How do I report problems with the website?
How do I recommend a subject or article for TeleRead?
Tell me a little about the history of TeleRead.org
Can I reprint articles from teleread.org onto my own website?
I am an author and want general advice about how to produce an ebook. Can you recommend something?
Do you accept advertising? Why or why not?
How do I contact any people who have written for teleread in the past?
What future plans does TeleRead have?
Do you have any rules/guidelines about posting comments?
What is the OpenReader project, and what does it have to do with TeleRead?
What are those strange icons that appear after each post?
When submitting an article, what are your rules and guidelines about content/style and formatting?
I submitted a comment, but it didn’t appear. What should I do?
TeleRead uses the Akismet spam-fighting service to detect and eliminate spam. If you are commenting for the first time, your comment is automatically put in the moderation queue, so you won’t see it immediately (And yes, it is not uncommon for people to submit the same post more than once when that happens). We typically check the moderation queue about twice a day, so we approve it relatively quickly.
Sometimes, if the personal data you are giving is different from what you gave on a previous occasion, Wordpress will treat your comment as one made by a first time poster.
Sometimes (rarely, we think), akismet puts your comment in the spam basket (even if you are a regular poster). We don’t have time to examine every comment in spam, but once every week we do a global search among the comments labeled as spam for terms like “ebook” “publish” and “DRM.” That is usually enough to identify any mislabeled comments. Not always, but a good amount of the time.
If more than several hours have gone by without your comment appearing, it’s likely that your comment went directly to the Akismet trashpile. In that case, you probably need to notify us so we can make sure to undo that action. Fortunately, spam comments are discarded every two weeks, so we usually have no problem undoing this spam.
To notify us about whether Akismet has swallowed your comment mistakenly, contact Robert Nagle at idiotprogrammer at fastmailbox.net.
How do I submit articles for TeleRead?
Reach David Rothman—see contact info above. By default, incidentally, “David Rothman” is the “I” in posts without bylines. The TeleBlog originally started out as a solo effort.
What’s the deal about the sidebar on the right side? When are you going to fix that?
We know about this issue, and it’s one of the first things on our To Do list.
Right now we’re working on a migration to a new content management system, and don’t want to solve that problem until make significant progress on the migration. In the meantime, hang in there.
If you have any thoughts on the issue, contact Robert Nagle.
How do I report problems with the website?
Contact Robert Nagle, the Web site administrator.
How do I recommend a subject or article for TeleRead?
Depends. If it’s about editorial content, contact David Rothman. Actually, a very effective way to recommend something is to mention it in context on a comment for another article. TeleRead has frequently invited people who comment to write a guest article.
Tell me a little about the history of teleread.org.
TeleRead goes back to the early 1990s when David wrote about TeleRead for Computerworld and then used CompuServe and the Net to distribute his proposal. TeleRead in that sense is a proposal for well-stocked national digital library systems in the United States and elsewhere. But nowadays TeleRead also means a major e-book site, to which you can contribute even if you don’t believe in the cause.
Can I reprint articles from teleread.org onto my own website?
Generally, this is not a problem if you are running a noncommercial site without advertising. TeleRead is currently published under a Creative Commons license.
I am an author and want general advice about how to produce an e-book. Can you recommend something?
E-book basics: Check out link to Wikipedia’s e-book entry. Also, see Robert Nagle’s list of e-book content creation links.
Do you accept advertising? Why or why not?
We expect to–in the near future to keep this site sustainable. It eats up an enormous amount of time, and there are Web hosting expenses.
How do I contact any people who have written for TeleRead in the past?
See the forthcoming contributors page. Please note that the TeleRead blog also includes posts from others, besides the main contributors.
What future plans does TeleRead have?
It is bad luck to talk about future plans until it is right upon us. However, there are immediate plans to introduce a storytelling podcast, reader forums and ebook recommendations/bookmarking systems. And possibly more.
Do you have any rules or guidelines about posting comments?
Generally no. Courtesy and no profanity are usually called for. It’s okay to link to your stuff or things you’ve written as long as you don’t overdo it.
What is the OpenReader project, and what does it have to do with TeleRead?
OpenReader was an effort to create a standard e-book format. It generated its share of attention and interest but not enough. However, it was a success in prodding the IDPF to take e-book standards seriously.
What are those strange icons that appear after each post?
In case you’re curious about those mysterious icons appearing with each post–like the nonfunctioning ones shown below–here’s the answer. No heraldry. No secret societies. Just icons for social bookmarking services.
When submitting an article, what are your rules and guidelines about content/style and formatting?
Go here for the details.
New FAQs: They’ll eventually be on the way to augment the existing one on TeleRead the cause. The present FAQ in some ways is out of date.
Disclaimer: We reserve the right to correct typographical problems and errors in grammar and spelling.
Range of opinions expressed: The TeleBlog represents a variety of viewpoints. TeleRead isn’t responsible for all the opinions here, and the posters aren’t responsible for TeleRead’s. Most any opinion goes–as long as it is nonlibelous and is civilly expressed when the topic is another member of the TeleBlog community.
Time stamp changes: We’ll sometimes change time stamps by a few hours in order to keep the most newsworthy items at the top. Somewhere there may be a WordPress plug-in to address this issue–we’re on the case.
