From the category archives:

Writing

Who Needs Publishers? Amazon’s 70 Percent Royalties For Kindle Books

July 7, 2010

Amazon’s Digital Text Platform (DTP) program allows you to compete on a level playing field in the ebook space, even if you have never spoken to a traditional publisher about your title. If you have a business book, a recipe collection, a memoir, a romance about vampires and wolverines, Amazon says, simply upload your title [...]

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New eReader from Barnes & Noble: The Nook

October 21, 2009

Barnes and Noble have released a new eReader, which looks suspiciously like the Kindle with a few “Look I’m Different” features….Should we be concerned that too much power is in too few hands?

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How To Excite Your Customer

September 30, 2009

…they used jargon, they droned, and they aimed their words at their colleagues, not at the audience. I turned them off and have no idea what their names were…

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Create Your Own Kindle eBooks

July 26, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to have a Kindle or a Kindle 2, there is no need to go spending good money to put your own content on there.
If you have PDFs, HTML docs, word processor documents that you’d like to carry around on your Kindle, you can either pay 10c a doc to have Amazon [...]

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Finding More Followers on Twitter

May 28, 2009

I have started to see increased traffic on the business website with this unobtrusive and, frankly fun form of marketing. It feels collaborative and fun and nothing like a sales job!

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Is Your Content Kindle-Ready?

February 23, 2009

On Tuesday, Feb 24, Amazon will release the second version of its Kindle ebook reader, and the media are already full of stories about ebooks. The time has never been better to release your content digitally and, to capitalize on the news, to release your content in a Kindle-ready format.

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6 Tips for Improving Your Business Writing

October 15, 2008

Do you hate to write business letters? Do you spend a lot of time on each email only to receive slow or no responses? Use these six tips to develop a writing style that gets results.
One Letter One Subject
Each letter or email should address one issue only. You can always send another email to talk [...]

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Better Business Writing: First Drafts & Revisions

October 15, 2008

IF A DOCUMENT is worth writing, it’s worth writing twice.
Although science fiction author Robert Heinlein famously claimed never to rewrite anything, he must be the only successful writer who can make that claim.
If you find it difficult to write well, remember that a first draft is just that. The trick to good writing is to [...]

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