Excerpt from release - Nashville, Tenn., November 18th, 2009 – FiledBy (www.filedby.com), the leading online directory of authors, writers, illustrators, photographers and other book contributors, today announced the integration of the Scribd Reader technology into the online toolset provided to its fast growing community of authors and other creators. Scribd (www.scribd.com) the largest social publishing company in the world, facilitates the creation and distribution of web documents that allow anyone to share written materials easily over the Internet. As a result of the agreement, all authors and other book contributors who register and claim their FiledBy site can utilize Scribd’s document reader to publish documents on FiledBy and Scribd simultaneously.

“We integrated Scribd’s technology on FiledBy sites to provide a more powerful, extensible and integrated document viewing platform that can support many file types, improve discoverability and broaden exposure for authors and others on FiledBy,” said Peter Clifton, CEO and co-founder, FiledBy. “This integration also establishes a framework for our authors to engage in social publishing and empowers them with another state of the art way to promote themselves and their work. For authors looking to expand their reach and build their marketing platform online, document posting and sharing on FiledBy and Scribd is a very powerful connection.”

To upload documents, videos, podcasts or other media, authors must be registered and verified on FiledBy. One of the advantages to the new integrated model with Scribd is that only the author themselves or their publisher can publish documents through FiledBy. This provides a level of verification and authority that helps protect copyrighted material. Click here to view a sample document on FiledBy and Scribd.

*If you’ve not yet created an author profile at FiledBy – you absolutely should do it now!

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At  Author Central, you have a bevy of ready-made tools designed by the bookselling and bookreading techno geeks at Amazon. All of these tools empower your to share information about yourself and your work with your readers — you can view and edit your bibliography, add a photo and biography to a personal profile, and use a blog to connect with readers.

Geez Louise, this makes me want to finish my book so I too can be front and Web-face forward on Author Central too!

Don’t miss out on the sample link to Neil Gaiman’s page. And take a moment to imagine him cast in a new part for the Twilight movies. I think he’s really trying to move that mojo with the picture he has up there.:>)

My fave is my client Bill Scheft’s page because Bill is really starting to dig all these new ways to connect with people. Bill is also proof that you can teach an amazing humor novelist and 18 year David Letterman show writer new Web tricks.

Bill will also be a keynote at the Erma Bombeck Writers Conference this year (Twitter: @ebww)  and he will be at the Texas Book Festival. (He writes a snappy blog too!)

I also notice at the Texas Book Fest that Buzz Aldrin will be speaking. I’m excited about this. I interviewed him years ago about his science fiction novel in Dallas, and he could not have been more gracious.

My favorite part of the interview was where I stupidly asked him (after weeks of watching old Apollo films for background) why they were doing different gaits across the moon.

“Mr. Aldrin,” I asked, “Did you all try those different gaits across the moon because you wanted to calculate differences between running, skipping, hopping?” (Oy vey, to be  a young dumb journalist again.)

And he said (without a smile), “For God-sakes no. Young lady, we were on the moon! We were skipping because we were on the moon!” (Duh!)

He also had a great perspective on being the second man on the moon.

Buzz at the time was also  in deep planning about his idea for a tourist service around space travel. I’m going to have to dig up the whole interview and post it as a PDF on the blog now.

Speaking of new frontiers, don’t forget to register on another fantastic author platform and one of my own personal faves – Filedby.com . If I was still a technology journalist my prediction would be that in two years from now, this is really the only author community you will need to be on.

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This morning Tamara Crabtree was kind enough to send me their latest press release , and it serves as a good reminder to urge all of you to claim your pages. (And hat tip to my pal Charles Decker who is brilliant and was the one to tell me about FiledBy.com in the first place nearly a year ago when it was still in beta.)

Why should you take 4 to 5 minutes and fill out your profile on the site? Because it’s worth your time in Web 2.0 and it would be silly not to do it.

The site currently has over 1.8 author pages and more than 7.5 million book pages. It’s like Wikipedia for authors except without the geeks running it who are fighting over what people can submit and how to keep it pure (like they are on Wikipedia.) The site also offers really cool bells and whistles for authors to utilize.

“Go, go and do this now,” she says,  (in her clean up your room voice.)

Note: I love geeks and am married to one who is taking a “hall pass” tonight with his buddy to go see Wolverine and can’t wait to see Star Trek. So geeks are good – just not when they’re fighting.

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