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A new eMarketer report shows that the number of Baby Boomers embracing social media, especially Facebook, jumped drastically between 2008 and 2009. In its Boomers and Social Media report, eMarketer takes a look at social media adoption among different generations. Results showed that while the percentage of Millennials maintaining a social networking site profile was fairly consistent from 2007 through 2009, the same cannot be said of Baby Boomers' social media usage. According to Deloitte data, 2009 was the year that social media bloomed for Baby Boomers, with nearly 47% of them actively maintaining a profile on the social web, which is up 15% from 2008. Further driving home that 2009 was the year of the social BB is the fact that from 2007 to 2008 there was barely a measurable change — just 1% — in that demographic's adoption of social media. READ MORE AT: http://mashable.com/2010/01/28/baby-boomers-social-media |
Digital Book World: Little Consensus on e-Book Pricing, Timing By Jim Milliot Although the two panels were separate sessions, there was a fair amount of overlap yesterday at Digital Book World's eBook Pricing and eBook Challenges panels, including Kobo's Michael Tamblyn who represented e-bookstores in both sessions. The overlap was due in part because it is difficult to know what to charge for an e-book when you don't know exactly when it should be released. In general, agents and publishers seemed more united over when an e-book should be released--after the print book--than what they should be priced at, while Tamblyn and others favored simultaneous release of hardcovers and e-books. Read on » READ MORE AT: http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6716774.html |
Previously I wrote a post on points of consideration when choosing a business structure to organize your internet business. I mentioned several business structures that are adequate. However, there are two business structures you should not consider. They are Sole Proprietorships and Partnerships. read more: http://www.blackweb20.com/2010/01/27/how-not-to-set-up-your-internet-business |
Host Tip of the Week: Successful Co-HostingWhen it comes to hosting a successful online talk radio show, having a co-host can be a great asset. A co-host can help you to: *Plan and manage your show's timeline Here are a few co-hosting tips: READ MORE GO TO: http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/btr-tips/host-tip-week-successful-cohosting/ Free Skype Calls Make it Easy to Dial-In to Your Favorite ShowsBlogTalkRadio has released a new free feature to make it even easier for listeners to call in and participate in live shows. "Click to Talk" with Skype enables listeners to join the show simply by using a Skype-to-Skype call, which also means the call is toll-free. Here is a step-by-step guide for using the "Click-to-Talk" feature: Click here to read more: http://blog.blogtalkradio.com/blogtalkradio/free-skype-calls-easy-dialin-favorite-shows/ |
Macomb Book Fair and Writers' Conference Saturday, February 6, 2010 Keynote Speaker Karen Love Karen Love is the Chief Operating Officer of the Michigan Chronicle and publisher of the Michigan FrontPage. Also featuring: CW Channel 50's Communication Affairs Manager, Kris Kelly and Manuscript Critiques by Sharon Stanford (click for details) Reminder: Essence of Motown 2010 Publisher's Breakfast Reminder: Essence of Motown 2010 Publisher's Breakfast Sylvia Hubbard |
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Twitter has just announced Chirp, the first official Twitter developer conference. It will take place at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre in San Francisco, CA, on April 14 and 15. The conference, which will be keynoted by Twitter's leadership, including co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, will be a two-day shindig. The first day will go over subjects such as Oauth, geolocation and business strategies, while the second day will be a 24-hour hack-a-thon for building apps and sharing ideas. There is actually a great deal of information on the quirky but rather elegant website, such as a teaser for the after party, details on the 24-hour Hack Day schedule and my personal favorite, a secret portal for creating your own Origami Chirp Bird. As a master of the ancient art of paper folding, I really appreciate this easter egg. Demand will certainly outstrip seats at this conference. Only 800 seats will be available (the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, while gorgeous, is not a large venue for a conference). The first wave of 100 tickets are now out, but require a little programming on your side — you need to use the API to find the username of user id 6253282 in order to register on Eventbrite. It'll also put you back $469. If you can't attend or don't manage to snatch up one of the 800 tickets, don't fret too much — we will be there to cover the entire thing. READ MORE AT: http://mashable.com/2010/01/25/chirp-twitter |
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Four Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Submissions to be Published Through AmazonEncore SEATTLE, Jan 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today announced that AmazonEncore, Amazon's publishing imprint, will be introducing four new books this Spring: "Page From a Tennessee Journal" by Francine Thomas Howard; "Greyhound" by Steffan Piper; "A Cruel Harvest" by Paul Reid; and "Crossing" by Andrew Fukuda. These books were all submitted for the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest, the international contest co-sponsored by Amazon.com, CreateSpace and Penguin Group (USA) that seeks to discover the next popular novel. This is the first time AmazonEncore has published original manuscripts. The AmazonEncore editions of these forthcoming novels will be available in print format at www.amazon.com and as wireless digital downloads from the Kindle Store in less than 60 seconds. For more information on AmazonEncore and upcoming titles, visit http://www.amazon.com/encore. "Now in its third year, the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest brings in many worthy manuscripts," said Jeff Belle, Vice President, Amazon.com Books. "We've identified these four manuscripts as examples of authors whose work we think deserves a larger audience, and we're excited to help these authors find their readers." Author Francine Thomas Howard based "Page From a Tennessee Journal" on a well-guarded family secret. The debut novel is about the lives of two Southern farming families--one white, one black--and their interconnected lives set in racially oppressive Tennessee a century ago. The San Francisco Bay Area-based author left her career in pediatric occupational therapy to pursue her first love: writing. "Page From a Tennessee Journal" will be published in March 2010. Steffan Piper's "Greyhound" is set in the early '80s, and tells the story of 12-year-old Sebastien Ranes, who travels 2,000 miles across the country on a Greyhound bus, chronicling the lessons he learns and people he meets along the way. Piper, based in Los Angeles, had previously self-published one novel and three books of poetry. "Greyhound" will also be published in March 2010. "A Cruel Harvest" tells the epic tale of two young lovers who are separated in a pirate raid on their Irish fishing village and forced to face terrible danger at the hands of tyrants in order to be reunited. The novel, set in 1790, stretches from the windswept coast of Ireland to the sun-baked hills of Morocco. The author, Paul Reid, was born and raised in Cork, and lives on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean in Cork Harbour. "A Cruel Harvest" will be published in April 2010. Andrew Fukuda's "Crossing," a debut novel that explores the Asian-American immigrant experience in modern-day America, and exposes the day-to-day cruelty of life in high schools, was inspired by the author's time spent working with immigrant teenagers in Manhattan's Chinatown. The half-Chinese, half-Japanese Fukuda lives on Long Island, New York. "Crossing" will be published in May 2010. Announced in May 2009, AmazonEncore is a program which identifies exceptional books and emerging authors using information on Amazon.com, such as customer reviews and sales data. Amazon then works with the authors to introduce or re-introduce their books to readers through marketing and distribution into multiple channels and formats, such as the Amazon Books Store, Amazon Kindle Store, www.Audible.com, and national and independent bookstores via third-party wholesalers. AmazonEncore is a brand owned by Amazon Content Services, LLC. Galleys of these titles are available for media and can be obtained by e-mailing encore-pr@amazon.com. About Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. Forward-Looking Statements This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings. SOURCE: Amazon.com, Inc. Amazon.com, Inc. Media Hotline, 206-266-7180 |
The Social Analyst is a weekly column by Mashable Co-Editor Ben Parr, where he digs into social media trends and how they are affecting companies in the space. Did you know that it's been nearly twenty years since the first website was placed online? Have you ever thought about how the Internet and the web have evolved in time? Ponder it: the Internet, a complex series of interconnected networks, protocols, servers, cables, and computers, has evolved from its early days as U.S. Department of Defense research project into the foundation for the World Wide Web, what we use today to interact with one another via browsers, email, Twitter, Skype, and millions of other online tools. As we approach the imminent launch of the Apple Tablet and analyze new trends coming out of out of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (our full coverage), now is good time to reflect on what the web will look like in the next decade — and beyond. I have four big predictions to share for what the web will look like in the near future. This is what I expect in the evolution of our online lives: |
Get Ready Novelists: Third Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Begins Jan. 25 The countdown to the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award is on! Amazon.com, Penguin Group (USA) and CreateSpace are again co-sponsoring the third annual international competition seeking the next popular novel. For the first time, Amazon.com customers will vote for two grand prize winners: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. The 2010 competition will also now be open to novels that have been previously self-published. Submissions will be accepted from writers around the world from Jan. 25 - Feb. 7, 2010 on the CreateSpace platform. The two grand prize winners, which will be announced on June 14, 2010 in Seattle, will each receive a publishing contract with Penguin, which includes a $15,000 advance. Sign up to receive contest notifications on helpful tips and tools for preparing your entry at www.createspace.com/abna. For complete terms and conditions for the 2010 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award and more information about the contest, please visit www.amazon.com/abna. |
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