Rise above the Crowd
Posted in eBooks on Feb 29th, 2012
Harry Potter has become a favorite series for so many people, myself, two of my daughters, my Dad, my great Uncle Jo … we all just loved reading the entire series. I was actually completely obsessed when I read it because I didn’t read it as it came out, book by book years apart. [...]
Posted in Social Media on Feb 27th, 2012
Suddenly everyone is talking about t Pinterest. The social links across the net are buzzing with stories of joining up, how to use it, what it’s for. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter are getting hit with the new buzzword from individuals and businesses alike. The two year old site has grown exponentially over the last few [...]
Posted in eBooks, MetaPlume eBooks on Feb 24th, 2012
I was browsing through the various eBooks available under the ‘Computers’ category in Kobo, and found most of them to be too technical. The majority of the eBooks in this category deal with blogging, hacking or app development. There is no eBook that would be of use for a person who is not well versed [...]
Posted in eBooks, MetaPlume eBooks on Feb 23rd, 2012
Hampi is both a historic and religious place in southern India. The remains of Hampi is a vast open museum of history, art and architecture. The eBooks, BrownBeat Guide to Hampi and BrownBeat Photo Companion to Hampi explain the fascinating history of Hampi, its origin, glorious past and terrible downfall, along with the mystery and [...]
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks on Feb 22nd, 2012
This week only Hugo Ortega’s ‘Tablets: Choose the Right One for You’ eBook can be downloaded for free from Amazon. If you’re in the market for a tablet, or you have one and you’re not quite satisfied with it, this eBook will shed some light on the situation. Take a peek inside and you’ll see [...]
Key parts of the Amazon KDP program are that the eBook has to be exclusively available for sale on Amazon for a period of 90 days, and that it allows for digital lending, but the best thing about KDP is that you can offer the eBook for free on Amazon for a maximum of 5 [...]
The reporting system on Kindle Direct Publishing is really not set up well for publishers. For a publisher that uses an account to publish titles by multiple authors the fact that you can’t generate, export or provide a login to show sales figures for selected titles is really annoying. You can’t showan author a bonafide [...]
Posted in MetaPlume eBooks on Feb 17th, 2012
This week the ‘BrownBeat Photo Companion to Hampi’ has been free on Amazon, part of a KDP program promotion. Considering it’s such a niche subject, almost 100 downloads is not bad at all. Even if you’re not planning a trip to Hampi in India anytime soon, I’d still encourage you to download the eBook while it’s [...]
Posted in Marketing, MetaPlume eBooks, Social Media, Web Presence on Feb 15th, 2012
Last night I embarked on a little project, from which I hope I will learn a lot about being on the writing side of publishing, and being part of an ecosystem that spans many genres. I started playing Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR), a massively multiplayer online PC game set 3000 years before the [...]
I had a conversation this morning with another mum at my daughter’s school. As we watched our kids do “huff and puff”, their morning exercise games, we sat on a bench under the shade of a gum tree and had one of those great getting-to-know-you conversations. Being an intelligent person, the other mum was quite [...]
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