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Route 66 maps + Navigation by TomTom on Android App - "Follow me" - Route 66 joined forces with TomTom at the end of last year in order to create a few new products.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Statement from Amazon.com Regarding Kindle 2's Experimental Text-to-Speech Feature
| SEATTLE, Feb 27, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kindle 2's experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative work is created, and no performance is being given. Furthermore, we ourselves are a major participant in the professionally narrated audiobooks business through our subsidiaries Audible and Brilliance. We believe text-to-speech will introduce new customers to the convenience of listening to books and thereby grow the professionally narrated audiobooks business. Nevertheless, we strongly believe many rightsholders will be more comfortable with the text-to-speech feature if they are in the driver's seat. Therefore, we are modifying our systems so that rightsholders can decide on a title by title basis whether they want text-to-speech enabled or disabled for any particular title. We have already begun to work on the technical changes required to give authors and publishers that choice. With this new level of control, publishers and authors will be able to decide for themselves whether it is in their commercial interests to leave text-to-speech enabled. We believe many will decide that it is. Customers tell us that with Kindle, they read more, and buy more books. We are passionate about bringing the benefits of modern technology to long-form reading. About Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon's developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon's own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront. Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, "Amazon.com," "we," "our" and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise. Forward-Looking Statements This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management's expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, indebtedness, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com's financial results is included in Amazon.com's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings. SOURCE: Amazon.com Amazon.com, Inc. Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Thursday, February 26, 2009
email marketing tips
email marketing tipsby Sylvia Hubbard QUESTION: How do I build my mailing list? Attract visitors to my site? And keep them coming back? Basically I would say to build your mailing list start with actually networking on the Internet. If you are shy, become unshy about selling your book, but don't just go around shouting I gotta book, buy it, buy it, buy it. That would be considered rude and also sometimes it´s called spamming! Don't do it because you'd be getting flame and you would gain a bad rep. Join reader and writers groups, asked to be featured or post reviews you have received about your book. Ask readers to read an excerpt and comment on it and hold contests. That's always a good one. Make them fun and imaginative and get readers talking about your book. A blog is a great way to be able to attract readers to come and return and then invite more readers to "YOUR" forum or as some authors like to put, "their show." You can do a lot from a blog. From just letting your readers get a glimpse of your book to reading a passage for them or even acting it out. You can provide information that your book topic touches on and find ways for them to learn more through you by coming back. To get a lot more traffic to a blog, you actually have to visit other blogs and post comments on there. The more groups you join and interact with on the internet the more chances you have at catching readers and getting them to follow you back to your website and buying a book. Remember the Covey law, the purchaser must see the product at least seven times before finally buying it. Other than the groups, you can interact with readers at places like myspace.com and Yahoo 360. There are a lot of networking sites that you can visit and join. Keep track of them and your password and visit them often. Don't just join to get a page. Join with the intentions of actively going and visiting the other pages, commenting on blogs, pictures, the page itself and connecting other friends. Once you have attracted your readers to your site, you want to keep them and have ways for them to sign up to give you their email address. Forms, newsletter sign up, and even sign ups for special free reads will give you a bevy of internet addresses that you can use for all your promotions. We're all six degrees of separation of people and three from our goals. The World Wide Web helps us get to them even faster. Use it wisely. Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Fw: Reader's Choice Awards from SORMAG
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Wed, 2/25/09, LaShaunda Hoffman <sormag@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Article: The Advantages of Reading Ebooks
There are so many great advantages of reading e-books. Perhaps you believe in being friendly to the environment in which case it is good to know that no trees had to be cut down to make the book. This also means that the costs of the book are substantially cheaper too. There is no need spending hours in a book store looking for that next great novel because you can simply go online and even get teasers about the book you are thinking about purchasing. When you do finally pick one, there is no one else in line so you are in, out and reading the book faster then ever before. The advantages of reading e-books continues even further to include the fact that you do not need as much space for them because they can be stored on your computer, a CD or even on a flash drive. Some cell phones today are also capable of not only storing these books, but also allowing you the ability to read them which makes them even better. 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, the online stores never close so if you finish a book in the middle of the night you simply purchase another one with ease. Best of all though, you can change their fonts which makes reading an e-book even easier. With all of the advantages of reading e-books, it is sometimes a mystery why people still purchase hard copies. Do yourself a favor and make that next great novel you purchase, an electronic one.
DON'T FORGET EBOOK WEEK! Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Tue, 2/24/09, EzineArticles.com Alerts <alerts@ezinearticles.com> wrote:
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Outrageously Creative Tips for Saving Money & Growing Your Business
This time of our lives calls for the most creative part of ourselves. This time isn't the time for any extravagance just to show that "hey, my business is still floating" but this is the time to be outrageously creative in saving money and cost effectively grow your business.Gladly, we can now have a handy and FREE resource to turn to. It's a .pdf file containing the compiled tips from Small
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Monday, February 23, 2009
Fw: Book Trade News Digest - Read An eBook Week
Read An eBook Week ---------------------------------------------------------------------- How many of you know that it's 'Read an eBook Week' March 8th to 14th? http://www.booktrade.info/i.php/19878 |
How to keep your dreams alive using a Video Dream Blog
Bohol, 5am. The boatman is late and we woke up early just to see the dolphins. Ahh..
The wife. She's here.
Boatman?
He's coming soon, she says.
An hour passes.
We're dejected.
Boatman here. We're off to see the dolphins...
Two hours of hunting them down, sharing the ocean with another set of boats full of tourists and NO DOLPHINS.
So that's why this video inspires me that ONE DAY, it will happen to me.
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The wife. She's here.
Boatman?
He's coming soon, she says.
An hour passes.
We're dejected.
Boatman here. We're off to see the dolphins...
Two hours of hunting them down, sharing the ocean with another set of boats full of tourists and NO DOLPHINS.
So that's why this video inspires me that ONE DAY, it will happen to me.
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The future of children and mega-texting
This is a response to the article and comments from MSNBC article called "6,473 texts a month, but at what cost? " I couldn't help it but just let the American readers and scientists know that they're not the only country on the earth. Wait, maybe my message is to the American-centric minds of the MSNBC /Washingtonpost writer Donna St. George who created the article.
Here goes:Let me tell you my experience from a country where all this started/happened 9 years ago.
1. Your children, (and maids and drivers) will eventually have 2-3 phones. But that's the limit. Some will go back to 2, some will stay at 3 phones - a small percentage (the oldies?) will just have one.
2. A very small percentage will STOP texting altogether and will demand that you call them or meet them to get their attention.
3. Most will continue texting, but once they're out of school, the text rate will decrease and eventually be devoted mostly to "setting up meetings" texts or "i'm bored in this party/meeting, I should text someone".
4. When dining out or inside the house, they will still absent mindedly twirl the phone like an ornament, even if it is $500 worth.
5. Some impressionable youths will start typing emails in txtspeak, or answer forums in txtspeak. This should be prevented by using heavy social sanctions (ostracize!, jk).
6. They will still sleep with the phone in arms reach.
7. How did we fix the unlimited texting "sickness?". We didn't. The telcos got smart and started charging for individual texts. Soon texting became limited because the phone had no more "load" to text. So allowance or lack of extra money limited the text counts. Of course, until the telcos discovered "Pass A Text", where children can request anybody (working siblings) to send them "load".
8. Touch screen phones prevents texting while driving. Want to stop it? Get your children an iphone or a prada or a nokia 5800 variant. Actually touch screens prevent texting while doing most ANYTHING.
9. Keypad phone texters will have mastered texting with one hand that they can watch the road and text with one hand - of course absentmindedly driving and dangerously distracted. But they will still do this. Even cab drivers.
10. You all might as well stop the highest text done in a day contests because it's futile. In our little country, the number of texts a day equals the number of texts in the US for a month. No kidding - and with a fraction of the texting population.Ok, this part reserves a citation but only if you're American, the Filipinos and people in the telecom industry worldwide already know this.
This is my eleven thousand pesos worth.
Here goes:Let me tell you my experience from a country where all this started/happened 9 years ago.
1. Your children, (and maids and drivers) will eventually have 2-3 phones. But that's the limit. Some will go back to 2, some will stay at 3 phones - a small percentage (the oldies?) will just have one.
2. A very small percentage will STOP texting altogether and will demand that you call them or meet them to get their attention.
3. Most will continue texting, but once they're out of school, the text rate will decrease and eventually be devoted mostly to "setting up meetings" texts or "i'm bored in this party/meeting, I should text someone".
4. When dining out or inside the house, they will still absent mindedly twirl the phone like an ornament, even if it is $500 worth.
5. Some impressionable youths will start typing emails in txtspeak, or answer forums in txtspeak. This should be prevented by using heavy social sanctions (ostracize!, jk).
6. They will still sleep with the phone in arms reach.
7. How did we fix the unlimited texting "sickness?". We didn't. The telcos got smart and started charging for individual texts. Soon texting became limited because the phone had no more "load" to text. So allowance or lack of extra money limited the text counts. Of course, until the telcos discovered "Pass A Text", where children can request anybody (working siblings) to send them "load".
8. Touch screen phones prevents texting while driving. Want to stop it? Get your children an iphone or a prada or a nokia 5800 variant. Actually touch screens prevent texting while doing most ANYTHING.
9. Keypad phone texters will have mastered texting with one hand that they can watch the road and text with one hand - of course absentmindedly driving and dangerously distracted. But they will still do this. Even cab drivers.
10. You all might as well stop the highest text done in a day contests because it's futile. In our little country, the number of texts a day equals the number of texts in the US for a month. No kidding - and with a fraction of the texting population.Ok, this part reserves a citation but only if you're American, the Filipinos and people in the telecom industry worldwide already know this.
This is my eleven thousand pesos worth.
Are you ready to become an entrepreneur?
Who wouldn't want to learn tips, practical and easy to comprehend tips on becoming an entrepreneur. We all knew America as the land of opportunity and have you ever wonder why? It's not confirmed to me yet but I have my simple realization why America became a land of opportunity. What is it? Well -- it's all because of the people. I noticed that most of the Americans are business minded thus
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Congratulations to Sylvia Hubbard, 2008 Community Literary Legend Author from The Black Authors Network!
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Sun, 2/22/09, Sylvia Hubbard <sylviahubbard1@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Friday, February 20, 2009
Free Book Listing Update
Free Book Listing Update Author101 has sent you a message on Author and Book Event Center Greetings authors! Thank you so very much for sending me your book info. I have "caught up" on listings. If you have yet to email me your book title and ISBN which is available on Amazon.com, please email them to me at chipanugget@ juno.com and I´ll get them listed. This is the link to page 1 of 2, http://bookeventcen ter.ning. com/page/ all-books. If you do not see your book listed, it could be one of these reasons: *Your book is not listed at Amazon.com or you may have sent the wrong ISBN. *You do not have an image on Amazon.com *You sent multiple titles, that´s okay, but I am trying to space out authors individual titles and the balance of your titles will soon appear. *I might have messed something up adding your book (go figure! LOL). Please re-send information. For some reason, I sent out 376 of this notification and my sent messages showed only 114 sent. So if you all could forward this message to other "authors" on your friends list, I would appreciate it. We have over 400 authors here (many with more than 1 book), but I have received only a handful of books to list. If you haven´t, I strongly encourage you to take advantage of this for your benefit as well as helping to support our site. You are all wonderful!!! ! Thanks for everything you do to help promote us! Warmest Regards, Carol Author101 To reply to this message, click here: http://bookeventcen ter.ning. com/profiles/ message/listInbo x Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Motown Writers Going Green Campaign looking for ebook authors for free promotion
Motown Writers Going Green Campaign looking for ebook authors for free promotion
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Robert Kiyosalki (rich dad, poor dad) gives out his new book: Conspiracy of the Rich and Crowdsources it too!
ARE YOU CONFUSED ABOUT why the economy in the US and world is collapsing? Robert Kiyosaki (best selling author that everyone on the planet has read) is offering a solution -- to clear your head. In an online book that's free for reading called the THE 8 NEW RULES OF MONEY.
As of now, the INTRO and FIRST CHAPTER is up for you to read at CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH. When you signup, just mention in the forum that JOMARHILARIO invited you.
Yes, it's a new book and an online book and ITS FREE. But you get to write or discuss it with him as he writes it. This is called CROWDSOURCING. So whatever you say may or may not impact the coming chapters.
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As of now, the INTRO and FIRST CHAPTER is up for you to read at CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH. When you signup, just mention in the forum that JOMARHILARIO invited you.
Yes, it's a new book and an online book and ITS FREE. But you get to write or discuss it with him as he writes it. This is called CROWDSOURCING. So whatever you say may or may not impact the coming chapters.
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Article: Create Fast Info Products Which Sell
Ebooks sell well online, because people are hungry for information they can use right away. If you'd like to create ebooks and sell them but feel you don't have time, short ebooks are the answer. You can create and start selling them within three days. Here's how. 1. Offer a Solution When they buy an ebook, buyers want a solution to a problem they have right now. For example, someone who's switching from a Windows computer to a Mac, wants to know basic information, and they're willing to pay for it. They're nervous: the machine is sitting in front of them. 2. What's Your Expertise? When considering solutions you could offer, consider your own expertise. Everyone's an expert in something. Look at problems you've solved in the past. For example, perhaps you learned how to get a fractious baby to sleep, conquered acne, or lost 50 pounds on a diet you created yourself. You could write short ebooks on all these solutions and sell them. 3. Write and Sell Within Three Days Short ebooks are short, usually less than 20 pages, sometimes fewer than ten pages. Remember, your buyers want solutions. They don't want to wade through 100 pages of waffle with a nugget of actionable information in the center -- they just want the steps they can use to solve their problem, right now. Therefore, confine your ebook to these elements: * A brief description of the problem (one page) * A step by step solution (up to 12 pages) * A resource page for further information (one page) Get your short ebook written, and convert the file to PDF. ' Remember that you're just offering a solution. You can include graphics, such as screen captures, if they're necessary. If they're not necessary, forget about them. (In general, ebook cover graphics are unnecessary.) 4. Advertise Your Short Ebooks Your final step is to write a sales page, and then advertise your short ebook. A long sales page is unnecessary; make it short and to the point. Describe the problem, and offer the solution to the problem -- your ebook. Once your sales page is online, advertise your ebook. Pay Per Click advertising is the most efficient way to sell. So there you have four steps to creating fast info products which sell. Get started today.
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Article: Can You Really Make Money With EBooks in a Recession?
Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com --- On Wed, 2/18/09, EzineArticles.com Alerts <alerts@ezinearticles.com> wrote:
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
DON'T FORGET: Michigan Literay Radio Show @ 5pm Today 2/18
Marketing Your Christian Work and Encouraging Readers on MLN Radio Show 2/18 5pm EST Christian Marketing Guru, Pam Perry & Shaman Drum Owner, Karl Pohrt On Michigan Literary Network! Tomorrow!
Join us February 18, 2009 5pm for The Michigan Literary Network show at: http://blogtalkradio.com/MichiganLiteraryNetwork with your radio host and Motown Writers Network founder, Sylvia Hubbard. We'll be speaking to Ministry Marketing Solutions, Christian Guru, Pam Perry and owner of Shaman Drum, Karl Pohrt. We invite you to join and if you miss it you can always listen and download to the podcast at: http://blogtalkradio.com/MichiganLiteraryNetwork
http://MinistryMarketingSolutions.com
Please take this time and visit their websites and supports their endeavors and then join us!
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Marketing Your Christian Work and Encouraging Readers on MLN Radio Show 2/18 5pm EST
| Marketing Your Christian Work and Encouraging Readers on MLN Radio Show 2/18 5pm EST Christian Marketing Guru, Pam Perry & Shaman Drum Owner, Karl Pohrt On Michigan Literary Network! Tomorrow!
Join us February 18, 2009 5pm for The Michigan Literary Network show at: http://blogtalkradio.com/MichiganLiteraryNetwork with your radio host and Motown Writers Network founder, Sylvia Hubbard. We'll be speaking to Ministry Marketing Solutions, Christian Guru, Pam Perry and owner of Shaman Drum, Karl Pohrt. We invite you to join and if you miss it you can always listen and download to the podcast at: http://blogtalkradio.com/MichiganLiteraryNetwork
http://MinistryMarketingSolutions.com
Please take this time and visit their websites and supports their endeavors and then join us!
http://blogtalkradio.com/MichiganLiteraryNetwork Contact Us, if you'd like to be a guest. Sylvia Hubbard Author, Blogger and Founder of Motown Writers Network http://aaeln.com (African American Electronic Literary Network) Author of Romance & Suspense and Internet Marketing for Writers & Business NOW AVAILABLE: Secrets, Lies and Family Ties order your copy now Coming Soon: Tanner's Devil www.redrosepublishing.com |
Everything You Ever Wanted and More In a PR Kit. Just Released!
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