A new publishing aggregator to rival Smashwords is in town. Within the last few years e-books have become more and more popular and the publishing industry has gone through some big changes. Digital distribution has made it easier than ever before to bring your book to an audience and Draft2digital is the newest tool for [...]
Bring on 2013
Firstly a belated Happy New Year. I hope your masterplans for 2013 are shaping up. It’s flying by already! I am definately rethinking my life at the moment. There’s so many things I still want to do and it’s not all related to business and marketing. I want to turn this blog into something that [...]
Your Faster Smarter Better Online Business
The Faster, Smarter Better business plan is focused on training new and experienced marketers alike to online business and those who have been unsuccessful online. The course is gimmick free and strips the online moneymaking process down to its core components. It is also delivered in an easy to use format. The course uses both [...]
Playing around on the Kindle
It’s been an interesting few months. I’ve recently enjoyed playing around with the Kindle marketplace, publishing a few guides and documenting the results on video, along with some strategies to get higher rankings on Amazon for Your Internet Pie. I also finally finished a book, previously shelved for many years, that I had been working [...]
Big Ideas in 2012
Well it’s been a fast-paced start to the year and I just noticed I haven’t blogged for a few months..oops. This has mainly been down to focusing on building the Internet Pie brand with the book and membership but I’ve also been doing a lot of Kindle research and testing out some ninja tactics. This [...]
Amazon adds HTML5 Spice to the Kindle Format
Following the announcement of the Kindle Fire tablet, along with other new Kindle models, Amazon have recently stated on their website that E-books on the Kindle Fire will be powered by Kindle Format 8 (KF8), which will replace the existing Mobi format. KF8 will add over 150 new formatting capabilities, including fixed layouts, nested tables, callouts, sidebars [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 3 – Uploading to Kindle Marketplace
In the last Blog Post of this series we converted your word document to a .mobi file, the required format for the Amazon Kindle. Today we can upload the file to the Kindle Marketplace. Head over to http://www.kindledirectpublishing.com and sign in with your Amazon account or sign up if you don’t have one. Firstly fill [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 2 – Converting with Mobipocket
Part 1 of this series looked at preparing your word document for the Amazon Kindle platform. This part is looking at converting the document to the required .mobi format. Step 1: Kindle Desktop reader To check your ebook you’ll also need Amazon’s Kindle Reader for desktops: Go to Amazon.com, look under shop all departments and [...]
Publishing for the Amazon Kindle – Part 1 – Preparing your Content
In this series of posts looking at Publish on Demand, I go through preparing, converting and publishing to get your content available for the Amazon kindle marketplace. Step 1: Preparing your Word Document When you have written your content in Word you’ll want to re-save a copy renamed specifically for the Kindle edition as we’ll [...]
An afternoon at the Google office
I recently visited the London office of Google as part of Google Adwords push to connect with agencies with help and support for their clients. It was good to see some of the offices, although I didn’t have time to have a look around the whole space (I’ll be back!). Sandeep Menon, head of small [...]
