Things are busy as ever here at MetaPlume. The promotion of our eBook series is prattling along nicely whilst in the background we’re considering how best to get our Android user focused titles to Android users. It would seem to be obvious, wouldn’t it? To reach Apple iPhone and iPad users you would publish to [...]
Monthly Archive for June, 2011
When an eBook maybe isn’t a book, sort of?
Posted in eBooks on Jun 28th, 2011
What does define a book these days? When you think of a book I usually think of a novel paperback, I guess because that’s what I read the most of … or is it? Truth be told I probably read email and articles on the Internet more, and I read a novel every 1-2 weeks. [...]
eBook turns loyal Blackberry user to Android
Posted in eBooks on Jun 27th, 2011
The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss eBook has made self-confessed Blackberry slave and blogger from Personal Trainer Toronto think about switching over to Android. “The author, Fiona Gatt has a very easy going, often funny and fluid writing style. She breaks down the apps with an easy to understand and straightforward approach [...]
Your phone can help shape up your body
Posted in eBooks on Jun 24th, 2011
eBookAnoid has written a rather glowing review of the Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss eBook … gush! It reads as though I really turned a light on in Tony’s head, that setting your phone up as a weight loss companion is a really good idea: “This is a well written and laid [...]
First review is in and it’s a positive one
Posted in General on Jun 22nd, 2011
The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss eBook has been reviewed by ebookandreaderstore.com and it has quite a positive flavor to it: “The ‘Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss’ eBook is a straightforward guide about how to use your Android smart phone as a weight loss support tool.” “The hundreds of [...]
Amazon eBooks stats show tremendous growth
Posted in eBooks on Jun 21st, 2011
In July last year, the number of eBooks sold on Amazon.com exceeded the number of hardcover books sold combined for the first time. Almost one year ago Amazon announced that for every 100 hardcover books sold, they sold 180 kindle books. Now that sounds impressive and at the time it created quite the media storm, [...]
Follow the Weight Loss by Phone story on Facebook
Posted in General on Jun 20th, 2011
Weight loss by phone … it’s a catchy phrase isn’t it?! It almost implies you can dial up some weight loss. But alas, that’s not the case, weight loss can still only be achieved through a healthy diet, portion control and exercise. The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss eBook shows you how [...]
Sorting through the rubbish
Posted in eBooks on Jun 20th, 2011
Did you know that there are 317 results for ‘yoga’ on Android market? While it doesn’t take a genius to work out that most of them will be useless spam apps, even I’m surprised at how few of them appear to be worth the download. Even ones with four stars fail impress me. I’m doing [...]
Authentic testing of Android apps
Posted in eBooks on Jun 17th, 2011
This week I’ve been working on a new eBook about setting up your mobile phone as a yoga guru. When I wrote the Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss I included a yoga app and let me tell you, it was very hard to decide on which one to include. Do a search [...]
MetaPlume publishing goes for a mainstream topic with a tech twinge
Posted in eBooks on Jun 15th, 2011
Actually I’m not sure that the title of this blog is entirely accurate. Smartphones are mainstream in many countries. The topic of our latest eBook is … The Top Ten Free Android Apps for Weight Loss. Hindsight is a wonderful thing and if I had it to do over I think I would have called [...]