Welcome back! 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 [...]
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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 [...]
The Rise and Rise of the Ebook
The ebook has well and truly arrived with sales elipsing those of physical books on the Amazon Kindle digital download platform. Mobile devices including iphones, ipads, android smart phones, PC tablets, Barnes and Noble’s Nook readers are also opening up a huge market in this area. Amazon triggered a snowball effect in terms of ebook [...]
Passive Income and Membership Sites
Recurring revenue plays a key part for any business. You can more or less predict your income in advance and cashflow becomes much less of an issue. Creating content based products and turning your expertise into a sellable product is also another very sensible approach. By creating and selling products you are moving away from [...]
What happens to your business if things go wrong?
Recently I’ve been implementing a system in our business to help document tasks and processes so that anyone can come in and take over doing those tasks.
Google Downgrade Content Sites
Recently Google announced it was targetting content farms in their recent algorithmic changes which affects about 11% of their search results.
