With Amazon and Apple aggressively entering the ebook market, this has opened the distribution doors for self-publishers. In the past, self-publishers’ biggest obstacle was lack of distribution for their book. The invention of the iPad and the Kindle Reader, with its easy to use screen, has attracted the young and old alike – such as baby boomers born 1946 up and the young generation z while the introduction of the iphone, Google android phone and iPod have attracted tech savvy generation x, the baby boomers, and generation y, born in the 1970’s. What does this mean to authors? Well there is a huge population that buys gadgets that have portals onto ebook content. They are viewing these books on the...
Many presenters have approached me for suggestions on how to blog, yet nobody has mentioned to me why I should have a blog. Without the why being answered, I slowly found myself falling asleep during the presentation and leaving confused. To define the reasons why we blog, we need to look into the past. Wikipedia reports that a blog is a web log. It is a website that is maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other materials such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. The fact that Google purchased blogger.com in February 2003 tells us that blogging must definitely be rising in popularity. There are now international blog...