My Speculative Media Architecture: I am using Wordpress again. I am running it as a Local ePrinting Press. #anthologize

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my eBook publishing process:
  1. import wordpress, tumblr, posterous posts into my Local wordpress application through the import admin system.
  2. clean up, edit, and tag posts.
  3. use anthologize wordpress plugin to create a an ordered list of posts. this is your book.
  4. export Html versions of the book. 
  5. add kindle specific html tags.(pagebreak!)
  6. use kindlegen from amazon to transform html to Kindle format 
  7. upload book to Amazon: https://kdp.amazon.com/
Notes
The wordpress installation does not need to be local, However, I need offline access to the Book Repository. In a sense I am taking internet substance and locking it up in the little walled garden of my Content Management System (CMS) and Relational Database.
Remember that each html5 post is a small HTML5 Applet, for a mobile device or eReader. You could therefore also generate an iPhone App (via xcode) from your Wordpress/CMS.
By doing my text editing in my Wordpress CMS I get a central HTML5 document control repository for Blog, Book, Ebook, Tumblr Magazine and iPhone app. I would dearly love to put my published Photos, audio and video in the same repository. I am not sure if Wordpress is the best choice for multi-media CMS. (Some kind of wiki functionality would be great too!)

Installation

  1. install local webserver with PHP support
  2. Install mySql locally
  3. copy Wordpress web application into your webserver document directory
  4. install Anthologize Wordpress plugin
  5. find the Anthologize menu in the wordpress administration page