A Second Chance at Life

I’ve been playing World of Warcraft (for leisure) for pretty much for a year and a half now. My son Tom originally said to me “Dad you know in the old days how Dads & Sons used to go fishing and camping, well now they get a character on World of Warcraft and go out …

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Amazon’s Book Surge fuels Self-Publishing

The traditional path through traditional publishers to get your ‘tome’ published is becoming less and less a beaten track. Day by day stories emerge through the media and blogs of authors that have successfully self-published. In the coming weeks I will feature more and more of these stories as this trend aint stopping. A perfect …

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1998 all over again!

A while a go a good blogger Ed Dale posted a great article on the dot.com boom happening again. Business week now have an article that looks at what is happening in Silicon Vallley. Well worth reading! If you are building your own on-line business through Blogging or whatever it pays to reflect a bit …

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Can TV’s and PC’s Live Together Happily Ever After?

Can TV’s and PC’s Live Together Happily Ever After? It looks like TV’s and computer LCD’s are getting closer and closer together. An article in the New York Times gave a good overview of where things were at. Original article here. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/business/yourmoney/14frenzy.html “Just in the last few weeks, for example, Warner Brothers announced it would …

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Blooks come of age with Lulu Blooker Prize

Blooks come of age with Lulu Blooker Prize Lulu announces the Short-List for the Lulu Blooker Prize, the world’s first literary prize devoted to “blooks”: books based on blogs or websites.“Blooks are the latest landmark in the history of books,” says Bob Young, CEO of Lulu. Loretta Dillon, crime buff, essayist, and musician from Cleveland, …

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50 /50 Split is Better Than Recording Artists Get! Long Live Authors!

50 /50 Split is Better Than Recording Artists Get! Long Live Authors! Spotted in the middle of the Random House announcement regarding a new “business model” for digital book content, under which the publisher will sell books to web retailers on a pay-per-view basis, was a promise to split revenues evenly with authors. Since standard …

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Paid to Blog!

Paid to Blog! When you read the article below you will realise how important it is to become a FINANCIALLY Independant Self-Publisher. My take on these columnists is that in the future ther will be bloggers! Hawking their wares to an interested audience. Newspapers will become mor and more general and could in fact just …

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