Hello,
Thanks for your interest in the EA Voices book. On this page I provide some more information.
As I wrote in the invitation:
I invite you all to dig in your own blog archives, including all those drafts I know you sit on, and write up a chapter/essay for the book.
- What theme? As long as it is something of relevance to enterprise architecture, it’s up to you!
- Number of words? Well, up to you, but I suggest shorter essay-ish chapters, so maybe around 2500 words?
- By when? Soon. Let’s get this thing out sooner than later! How about submission by 1st May? Or thereabouts.
Want to contribute? Sign up here.
Book title? I suppose a formal book title cannot be “EA Voices”. Open to ideas here. “Enterprise Architects at Work“? (like Yordon‘s CIO book, but different format, not interviews). Otherwise wait and see what comes in. If everyone talk about the “future of EA”, that could be the title.
Publisher? The book will be published by Authorhouse. That’ll make it available worldwide through Amazon etc.
Manuscript requirements? The submitted manuscript must be proof-read and adequate for book publication, i.e. not with links etc. Please submit in Word or ODT plus PDF. Any images must be submitted in 300 dpi. List of references must be formated in APA style.
Manuscript copyrights? By submitting your chapter to the book, you give Authorhouse the right to publish an instantiation of the content in the book that Authorhouse owns the copyright to. You retain the copyright to the content of your chapter.
Commercial aspects? My personal company, Gøtze Consulting, is sponsoring the project and covers the costs to Authorhouse. The published book will generate some royalties that we can set (2%-50% or so). I suggest we keep the price down, so students etc can afford it. In effect, I do not think this project will or should make money. But if we end up with a bestseller, I will spend the royalties on a worthy cause after consulting the contributors.
If anything is not clear, just ask 🙂
I suggest we use the hashtag #eavoices in open communications about the book.
So far, book contributors are expected from:
[members-list list=”Book” search=false radius=false alpha=false pagination=false pagination2=true sort=false]Regards,
John Gøtze
john@gotze.dk