Rise above the Crowd
Posted in Publishing industry on May 2nd, 2012
With sales of the Nook (Barnes & Noble’s answer to the Kindle) dwindling to the extent that there were rumors that they might stop offering their own tablet/eReader, Microsoft’s investment of $300 million will extend the Nook’s longevity. As the Business Insider points out, the investment is a little quirky since the Nook runs Android [...]
Posted in eBooks, MetaPlume eBooks on Apr 5th, 2012
‘When Good Kids Do Bad Things’ was first published in print in 1991. Since then a lot has changed in the author, Katherine Gordy Levine’s, life. Her two sons have grown up and flown the nest and the pleasant state of being retired has transformed daily life. Mind you, Katherine is still super-active. All that [...]
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 [...]
Posted in eBooks, Marketing, Web Presence on Oct 28th, 2011
Someone asked me the other day, what is MetaPlume’s speciality? Now the word ‘speciality’ implies that there is one thing that we should be experts at and when it comes to e-publishing, that implies that you pick a genre or a type of publication. Romance, public domain, self-help, indie, tech, magazine, children’s books, business, text [...]
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