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Hello!
Welcome to a new edition of “On the Net Today”, the newsletter where every Friday we share a selection of useful and interesting resources to help you get the most out of the internet and make the best use of your browsing time.
Here are the topics we’ve prepared for today:
Kindle Direct Publishing, the world's leading self-publishing platform
Google Experiment: One-Minute Digital Guides to U.S. National Parks
The Publish Press, the digital creator newsletter by Colin and Samir
⏭️ In brief
🤔 Express Quiz
💡Recommended by: Chiqui Esteban
Kindle Direct Publishing, the world's leading self-publishing platform
Have you ever thought about self-publishing and selling your own book? Today, that's possible thanks to a variety of free self-publishing platforms — for both print and digital books — that make it easy to create and publish books and sell them to readers around the world.
Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Amazon's self-publishing tool, is the world's leading self-publishing platform. It allows independent authors to publish their books in both digital (Kindle) and print formats — using a print-on-demand system, where books are only printed when someone buys them — while retaining editorial control and copyright, and with the possibility of earning up to 70% of sales revenue.
Books published through KDP can be made available across Amazon's more than ten local digital stores worldwide. The main one is the U.S. store (amazon.com), followed by local stores in Spain (Amazon.es), Canada (Amazon.ca), the United Kingdom (Amazon.co.uk), Germany (Amazon.de), France (Amazon.fr), Italy (Amazon.it), and Brazil (Amazon.com.br), among others.
KDP is estimated to already host more than 6.5 million self-published titles across its various geographic markets. A study by 360 Research Reports indicates that KDP holds a 32% share of the global self-publishing market, with more than 1.1 million authors of ebooks and print-on-demand books.
KDP's system guides authors step by step through the book creation process, offering templates and other helpful resources.
NOTE: KDP is one of the various self-publishing platforms described and explained in the book (in Spanish) "Autopublica tu libro: Guía práctica para hacer realidad el sueño de autopublicar y vender tu obra" ("Self-Publish Your Book: A Practical Guide to Making the Dream of Self-Publishing and Selling Your Work a Reality"), by Ismael Nafría, co-author of On the Net Today. The book is available in digital format (€7.99) in this very newsletter, and also in print on Amazon and Lulu (€12.99).
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Google Experiment: One-Minute Digital Guides to U.S. National Parks
The Google Arts & Culture Lab has just launched a new interactive experiment: One Minute Guides: National Parks — brief digital guides to 10 U.S. national parks, tailored to each user's interests and created with the help of Google's AI.
As explained in the guides' presentation, "The US National Parks are full of incredible landscapes, but figuring out where to start can sometimes feel overwhelming. What if, instead of following a standard map, you could experience these sites in a way that simply fits how you like to travel?"
The One Minute Guides: National Parks let each user create their own short, personalized multimedia guide to 10 national parks: Yosemite, Acadia, Grand Canyon, Zion, Yellowstone, the Statue of Liberty, Great Smoky Mountains, Hot Springs, Rocky Mountain, and Mount Rushmore.
For each park, users can select the profile that interests them most and get a corresponding guide featuring illustrations and explanatory audio. The guides are generated by Gemini, Google's AI, using data from the National Park Service API. Users can collect stamps in their digital passport for each completed guide.
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The Publish Press, the digital creator newsletter by Colin and Samir
Colin and Samir are two well-known YouTube creators based in Los Angeles who launched their free newsletter, The Publish Press, four years ago, dedicated to sharing information and advice for digital creators.
Published three times a week (Monday, Wednesday, and Friday), The Publish Press currently has 130,000 subscribers. The newsletter offers creators news, ideas, and trends from the world of digital content to help them thrive in the creator economy.
This year, Colin and Samir won a Webby Award in the Best Duo or Group Creator category for their YouTube channel, where they have 1.62 million subscribers.
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⏭️ In Brief
The winners of the 2026 Pulitzer Prizes for Journalism were announced this week. The Washington Post took the top prize in the Public Service category, while The New York Times was the most decorated outlet with three Pulitzers. All winning works are available at the link below:
Ted Turner, the visionary founder of CNN, passed away this past Wednesday.
The winning photographs from the GDT Nature Photographer of the Year 2026 are available here.
🤔 Express Quiz
A historic internet search engine recently shut down for good.
In the previous edition of On the Net Today we asked about "scrollytelling." The correct definition was the second one: "A digital storytelling technique in which a page's content changes and tells a story as the user scrolls."
💡 Recommended by: Chiqui Esteban
Name: Chiqui Esteban
Role: Graphics Director, The Wall Street Journal
Link: Chiqui Esteban
Recommended resource: Padlet
Why?
Padlet is a tool that lets you upload images, text, links, maps, timelines, and other content to a virtual board and comment on them. It doesn't require accounts except for the creator of the board, making it ideal for sharing ideas, planning, or setting up exercises in class — especially for visual topics — quickly and easily.
I use it, for example, when I teach visual journalism. I assign visual exercises, students can complete them however they like — pen and paper, online, Datawrapper… — and upload the result here, whatever it may be: a photo, a link, etc. Everything gets shared in one place, other students can comment, and I can save it to evaluate the work later. It can also be used in meetings where participants want to share ideas like sticky notes, with the added bonus of being far more versatile than a regular note.
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