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Saturday, January 30, 2010

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What Matters Now by Seth Godin and others








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Seth Godin’s latest book, which features essays by himself and a host of other brilliant minds is available for free. In What Matters Now, each essayist focuses on something that matters to them. Think of this as your New Year’s Resolution in an eBook.Format: Free download
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According to PCWorld: "E-Reader Sales Will Doube Again This Year!"

Are you ready for the wave of electronic book buying that will take place?

Is your literary project geared to be transformed into several formats to substain the voracious readers that will flood the book buying world looking for something to read?

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Friday, January 29, 2010

RT @Mashable: Baby Boomers and Seniors Are Flocking to Facebook [STATS]





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



Thursday, January 28, 2010

From PW: Debating e-Book Pricing, Timing




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




article: How Not to Set-up Your Internet Business by Latoicha Givens

How Not to Set-up Your Internet Business

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




Wednesday, January 27, 2010

BTR NEWS UPDATES: Successful Co-Hosting & Free Skype Calls into Show!

Host Tip of the Week: Successful Co-Hosting

When 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:hosttip-of-the-week1

*Plan and manage your show's timeline
*Outline questions for guests
*Coordinate and screen calls
*Run the show while you screen callers
*Provide a fresh perspective on the air
*Give your show more voices, more personality

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 Shows

Click to Talk with Skype


BlogTalkRadio 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/





[Motown Writers Network] Macomb Book Fair and Writers' Conference Saturday, Febr


Macomb Book Fair and Writers' Conference
Saturday, February 6, 2010
Mount Clemens Public Library  
150 Cass Avenue | Mount Clemens MI 48043
(586) 469-6200


http://www.libcoop.net/mountclemens/bookfair.htm


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
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Reminder: Essence of Motown 2010 Publisher's Breakfast







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Sylvia Hubbard
Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network & The African American Electronic Literary Network

Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business

NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now
Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com

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Tuesday, January 26, 2010

How to Turn your High Quality Articles into a Free eBook| Plus Ebook Workshop March 25th in Detroit



Book and Article Marketing Coach Judy Cullins

Dear Subscribers,

Thank you for continuing to welcome me to your Internet doorstep for ongoing book writing, publishing, and marketing advice.

I'd love you to check out the article below. As always, I welcome candid feedback and questions that will help you and others make your book dreams a reality this year!

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How to Turn your High Quality Articles into a Free eBook- 8 Ways


Do you want to write an eBook, but find it daunting? You just don't have the time?

Just recently I transformed several article topics into two eBooks. One working title, "How to Write, Distribute, and Market your Book." included information on these important how to topics. It took a little time, but now this eBook helps others and brings me more free targeted traffic at my site You can too! When visitors opt-in to the free report, they give me their email. Then, I can stay in touch with them on a regular basis.

Read more at biznik.com/articles/how-to-turn-your-high-quality-articles-into-a-free-ebook-8-ways

Cheers,
Judy Cullins

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Chirp! Twitter Reveals Its First Official Conference


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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Posted: 25 Jan 2010 03:59 AM PST

Google Image Search is one of the top technologies today at Googleplex as it serves millions of users around the world that are looking for appropriate images. That displays the importance of images in each one's life. Especially if you are blogger, web designer or a graphic designer then you highly rely upon new images for day to day work. When you develop a website, the first thing that strikes our mind is to get more views, visitors and incomes. And images help the readers for better understanding of the text content. So generally do Google Image search or may be Yahoo Image search, but at times the result may be disappointing and you might feel like digging the alternative sites too. However, this certainly does not mean that you have shell out dollars to obtain images, there are few excellent royalty-free image sites existing that offer equal quality product at low or no cost. With that in mind, honeytechblog compiles Top 10 websites to get royalty-free images, which can certainly help you




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AmazonEncore to Publish Four Original Manuscript Submissions in Spring 2010



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.

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[Motown Writers Network] News From The Michigan Literary Network | January 26, 2

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How To Create, Publish, and Sell Ebooks on The Internet $

In 2010, you can take your literary project to Web 2.0 and explode your platform to a new level.


Ebook (Electronic books) are selling more than paperbacks* and you need to get your book out there.


It's not just about changing your paperback to a digital format, but understand how to get your work in front of the eyes that you want to read your work takes just as much work – almost more.


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Monday, January 25, 2010

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What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch



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:


READ MORE AT: http://mashable.com/2010/01/24/internet-of-tomorrow-column




Friday, January 22, 2010

FREE FREE FREE of What Matters Now by Seth Godin. TAKE IT! USE IT!! LOVE IT!!!

What Matters Now by Seth Godin and others








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Seth Godin’s latest book, which features essays by himself and a host of other brilliant minds is available for free. In What Matters Now, each essayist focuses on something that matters to them. Think of this as your New Year’s Resolution in an eBook.Format: Free download
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2009/12/what-matters-now-get-the-free-ebook.html



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Get Ready Novelists: 3rd Annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Begins Jan. 25





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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.



RT @dantelee 2010 Blogging While Brown Conference In Washington, DC June 18-19, 2010


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2010 Blogging While Brown Conference In Washington, DC

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2010 Blogging While Brown Conference In Washington, DC

Posted: 21 Jan 2010 06:52 PM PST

This unique conference for African American bloggers is scheduled for June 18-19, 2010 in Washington, D.C at the historic Henley Park Hotel.

Blogging While Brown promotes intellectual, social, and cultural development of the blogging community by bringing bloggers of color together in one location. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate conversations that lead to collaboration and innovation among bloggers of color.

Last year's conference was held in Chicago and was attended by activists, entrepreneurs, journalists and others interested in expanding digital media content creation and distribution among people of color.

This year is expected to be bigger and better. There will be intensive workshops for beginners and experts.

Early registration is only $99.

For more details, visit:
www.bloggingwhilebrown.com

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