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Microsoft Gives Us Another Step Toward Paperless Books

March 5, 2010

From EnGadget Microsoft’s Courier ‘digital journal’: exclusive pictures and details

We’ve been dying to know more about Microsoft’s Courier tablet / e-book device ever since we first caught wind of it last September, and while our entreaties to Mr. Ballmer went unanswered, we just learned some very interesting information from an extremely trusted source. We’re told [...]

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Get More Value From the Books On Your Shelf

February 21, 2010

I have a large library of book.. get more every day.
Once in a while, I look over the collection and am convinced that the best use for most of the book would be to give them away. Not all of them.. but even some of the ones I love best would help the world [...]

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Manage Your EBooks To Reach More Readers

February 19, 2010

More than a decade ago, while working in the computer hardware industry, I saw some data on the trajectory of screen resolution and capacities for the future.
Many pundits were saying that screens as good as paper were coming very soon, but one smart futurist showed us a graph of memory and processor capacities, the number [...]

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The Draw of Books. Why Your Readers MUST BUY

February 3, 2010

When asked about the power of books, especially in this era of ebooks and supposedly less reading, I point the stats or 570,000 books published each year and the irresistable draw we have to book stores.
Best seller books will be most of what catches a reader’s eye becuase they are in heavy distribution and reader [...]

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How Did You Get That Book Out So Fast?

November 24, 2009

My friend Gail Kingsbury called to tell me about her new book and the fabulous stories inside.
I said “I didn’t even know you were working on a book.. How did you fit that in your schedule?”
The answer.. a collaborative effort. Working together, the co-authors were able to high quality material together, join together for to [...]

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Textbooks Will Lead Us Away From Books

November 23, 2009

Paper books are winding down. We’ll have them around for a long time to come, but the kids going into college now are going to bring the future faster than you think
Joel West postulated these 3 reasons why Amazon will get out of the ebook business

Amazon‘s (AMZN) Achilles heel is the proprietary mobi format against [...]

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Thanks For Your Tremendous Support..

November 18, 2009

I have a delightful business model. I get to help authors with good books to share reach new markets and readers with their message.
We have some fun, make a living and live for notes like this..
Thank-you for your tremendous support in helping in promoting Dan’s campaign last Tuesday. We reached the Amazon Best [...]

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Wanted: 7 Authors Who Want To Be Best Sellers

October 29, 2009

A few years back, I helped an author become an instant best seller with his book Think Two Products Ahead. It topped the Amazon Best Seller List for non-fiction for a week and was #2 overall (beat only by the wizardy of Harry Potter)
Through that process, I got to know an extraordinary man named Ben [...]

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Does Your Book Have a Heartbeat?

October 29, 2009

Free Training Call for Authors this Saturday
Authors ask me “What does it take to make a bestseller?”
As you bring your best seller to life, you need 3 things to turn your dream into a reality

You need a realistic business plan
You need outside perspectives
You need a what I call a “book’s heartbeat”

On Saturday, I want to [...]

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GUEST ARTICLE: How to Make the Press Interested in You and Your Book

August 19, 2009

I can’t believe the number of authors I hear on the radio that get stumped by questions the host asks about their own book. Here is a tip that will not only make you sound better on the radio, but will make it easy on the press to want to pick you to interview as [...]

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