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IS THIS E-BOOK MARKET BLASPHEMY?

Can I ask you a question? When was the last time you walked into Amazon, Barnes and Noble or even your local bookstore to buy a book? Was it recently? When you were browsing around reading the book-sleeve, did an attendant run up to you and say "Quick! There's only 2 left! Buy it before they go!"? What about the last time you bought a book? Did you hand over the book and the money only to find out that they'd thrown 18 other books, a CD collection, a bunch of book tokens, the author's telephone number and a money-off voucher to Starbucks in your bag? No? I wonder why that is? I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that it's because bookstores generally value the works of each individual author and rely upon the fact that people are buying, say, a Stephen King novel because they actually like his work, value his craftsmanship actually WANT his book. Nothing more, nothing less than that. It's funny then, that in the internet publishing world we tend to do the exact opposite. We tell people that 'There's only 4 left!' or that 'The price will go up at midnight... I can't guarantee ...

Philip Ephraim publishes how the world outside the United States influenced the results of the 2008 American elections in his self-published book ‘Barack Obama, The Audacity of Being a Global President’.The book author presents statistical analysis and worldwide events that point to the fact that big and small countries all over the world, enemies of America included, want Obama to emerge as the 44th president of the United States.Ephraim explains how world economic borders are collapsing, making more and more countries allied with the US.  The author also underscores that people all over the world are hopeful that Obama will make diplomacy a priority, double foreign assistance, build healthy and educated communities, develop markets and reduce poverty.Philip Ephraim quotes President-elect Barack Obama in his victory speech: “And to all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand. To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: ...

If you're a book author, you want to make it as easy as possible for people to say yes to you: • Yes to being interested in you • Yes to being interested in reading your book • Yes to buying your book To do this you must have a website (people buy books online) and you must have a website that makes it easy for potential book buyers/readers to know what your book is about and what you are about. Here are six errors that get in the way of people saying yes to you: 1. You don't have a website. Okay, this is an obvious one. But there's a part of this error that may not be as obvious. Let's say you don't have your own website, but you have your own page (section) on a book organization's website. Is this good enough? Probably not, and here's why: On an organization's website you have to fit your own round pegs into square holes (or the other way round). You are limited by what that site allows you to do, and you may be making it too easy for people to jump away from your author page to someone ...

Old books in the public domain can be a great source of inspiration and suitable content for producing new material such as CD's, DVD's or ebooks. What's more... and even better than this, is that if you use a public domain book you can take the whole thing if you wish and recreate it into your very own.Just scan the pages and any illustrations into your computer, edit the wording if you want to and bring the language up to date for modern readers. Hey Presto you have created a product for yourself, one that you can sell and make a fantastic income from on a recurring basis, for life if you want to.One of the easiest ways to find old books especially those in the Public Domain, is to have a browse around local second hand book stores or at jumble sales, boot fairs, craft markets etc.However another good place to look would be on ebay, using their search facility for antiquarian books and also the illustrated section of the books for sale area.All books from pre 1923 if from the USA will be found to be in the public domain ...