tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12225977163562580842024-02-19T00:37:39.182-05:00Links to Me*diaOur newsletter turned news blog, Links to Me*dia, is now our way to keep you up to date with happenings at our company, Newmedia Publishing. Gone are the days of “old” web and email practices, such as subscriptions, opt-in lists, exposure to unscrupulous spammers, over-vigilant spam filters, and so on and on. Who needs the hassle? Thank you for the exciting years since 1999 - and here is to many more!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-68973153520940460562015-10-18T13:33:00.001-05:002015-10-18T13:34:59.127-05:00My Mother's Holocaust Diary Book, "From Love to Triumph," Is Being "Crowd Published" on Publishizer.com <h3>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In her epic love story my mother, Susan Kaszas, describes with touching directness, what it feels like to be taken from one's family, to be beaten, cursed at, poisoned, and to witness unspeakable, systematic cruelty. But the hardest aspect of her personal and collective hell was being separated from her one love, her husband, Alex. From Love to Triumph is a love letter to Alex.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It is this love that persists throughout her writing, as the unbreakable golden thread that binds her to life when she is tempted to escape into suicide. Her passionate commitment to her love permeates every day of fear and suffering. It is so strong, she is even more concerned about Alex than about herself, while she is forced into the cattle cars heading for the concentration camps. She says, "It made it easier on me that you did not get to see the long stretch of cattle boxcars we were herded into and I was spared of looking at the expression on your face."</span></div>
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Using Push Pop Press, authors will be able to weave together text, images, audio, video and interactive graphics into immersive multi-touch interactive books, without dealing with the complexities and costs normally involved in software development. <br />
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Push Pop Press is currently in private beta being used to build "amazing titles," as the website says. In the meantime, here is what we can expect: <br />
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Updatable content? <b>NOW THAT'S COOL</b> - can't wait to see how it works for us!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-63394267266241386822010-12-09T11:36:00.000-05:002010-12-09T11:36:20.392-05:00Seth Godin's Domino ProjectDo you want to see, first-hand, where publishing is going?<br />
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Let me introduce you Seth Godin, the best and most prolific marketing expert I know of. Here are the first few paragraphs from his recent blog post, titled "The Domino Project:"<br />
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<i>"Book publishing is changing. It’s changing faster than it has in a hundred years. I’ve been persistent enough to be part of that change, provoking and <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/08/moving-on.html" target="_blank">poking</a> and wondering about what comes next.<br />
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<ul><li><i>To reinvent the way books are created when the middleman is made less important.</i></li>
<li><i>To reinvent the way books are purchased when the tribe is known and embraced.</i></li>
<li><i>To reinvent the way books are read when the alternatives are so much easier to find.</i></li>
<li><i>To find and leverage great ideas and great authors, bringing them to readers who need them.</i></li>
</ul><i> The notion of the paper book as merely a package for information is slowly becoming obsolete. There must be other reasons on offer, or smart people will go digital, or read something free. The book is still an ideal tool for the hand-to-hand spreading of important ideas, though. The point of the book is to be spread, to act as a manifesto, to get in sync with others, to give and to get and to hand around."</i><br />
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You can read the rest at: <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/the-domino-project.html">http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/12/the-domino-project.html</a>. It's worth every second of you time. I promise.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-20853804926470369782010-10-20T14:56:00.000-05:002010-10-20T14:56:53.184-05:00Google's Slideshow of Interesting Things: Is the Future of Publishing Now?Google's Creative Labs came out today with a <a href="https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Abmo0iWBO2gEZGY3cnc3dnpfMzM4Y3o2bmduZDY&hl=en&authkey=CJ2Ug_IF" target="_blank">slideshow</a> of interesting things on the web. I find these three especially relevant:<br />
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RCA (Royal Academy of Arts) student <a href="http://www.rca.ac.uk/Default.aspx?ContentID=509395&CategoryID=36765" target="_blank">Jack Gilbey</a> is developing dynamic typography where the font adapts to contextual changes within the content. I think this is a BIG deal. You don't have to take my word for it; here are his:<br />
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"Recently, my practice has been concerned with exploring the possibilities offered to typographers by developments in technology, new media and the apparently limitless dimensions of the Internet. I am interested in challenging the universally accepted concept of a typeface as a static set of visual forms – a tradition born of obsolescent technologies – and investigating the notion of a typeface as a dynamic system that can be context-sensitive or thematically driven. I have developed a body of work that aims to explore the extent to which these new typographic methods can enhance communication."<br />
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Cool, Jack - high time too!<br />
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Stephen Fry and Penguin digital made his latest book into an iPad app that is browsable in completely new ways:<br />
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Is this cool or what? I'm REALLY tempted to get an v.1 (version #1) iPad... although, even with Apple, I generally wait till v.2. Microsoft? Wait at least till v.3.1....<br />
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<b>Mongoliad: The Digitally Enhanced Genghis Khan </b><br />
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Neal Stephenson is leading/writing a serialised 13th century historical epic, <a href="http://mongoliad.com/" target="_blank">Mongoliad</a>, with community-enhancement, wiki-contribution, a subscriber model, and multiple writers; all to be released on iOS (i.e. as an iSomething app). <br />
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I do believe the subscriber model is the best way for authors to make a living from their work. Multiple writers... I'm not so sure about that....June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-9489767965016613052010-09-23T08:40:00.001-05:002010-09-23T08:40:00.774-05:00Amazon Now Sells More eBooks Than HardcoverseBooks have FINALLY hit the mainstream, and for the first time are consistently outselling their pulp-and-ink brethren, according to Amazon.com.<br />
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Last holiday season Amazon hit a symbolic milestone, when for one day its sales of e-books exceeded the number of dead-tree books it had sold.<br />
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<b>The company now has hit a more significant milestone, selling 143 e-books for every 100 hardcover books sold over the course of the second quarter.</b> And the rate is accelerating: in June, Amazon sold 180 e-books for every 100 hardcovers; it also sold three times as many e-books in the first six months of this year as it did in the first half of 2009.<br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/kindle-store-ebooks-newspapers-blogs/b/ref=sa_menu_ks2?ie=UTF8&node=133141011" target="_blank">Amazon’s Kindle bookstore</a> now offers more than 630,000 books -- including <a href="http://predatoress.com" target="_blank">Predatoress</a> and some of our other titles of course -- plus 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright titles.<br />
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The overall e-book market is still a mere weakling next to print publishing. According to a report from Publisher’s Weekly last year, hardback sales were projected to be about $4.4 billion in 2009 (including both adult and children’s titles), while paperbacks were expected to generate $5.1 billion in revenue, audiobooks $218 million, and e-books just $81 million — less than 1 percent of the print equivalents. That’s not even counting textbooks, Bibles and professional books — with those included, Publisher’s Weekly estimated the overall book market at $35 billion in 2009.<br />
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According to Amazon, sales of its Kindle e-book reader have tripled since it cut the price from $260 to $190, although it did not provide any hard numbers about how many it had sold. The Kindle has topped Amazon’s list of bestselling products almost since it was first released two years ago.<br />
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<b>You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books, however</b>. Amazon also offers Kindle e-book readers for the iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, Android phones, and for Mac and Windows PCs. This cross-platform reach is no doubt helping to increase the customer base for Amazon’s e-books, but it also provides a security blanket: even if you break your Kindle or lose it, you’ll still be able to read the ebooks you’ve bought.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-86732579572049900622010-09-08T15:29:00.000-05:002010-09-08T15:29:14.747-05:00Is Successful Farming Magazine the Future of Publishing?Successful Farming Magazine's owner, Meredith Corp., has found a new way to use multimedia: a video inside a magazine.<br />
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The August issue of Successful Farming has an insert from Bayer Crop Science. When readers open the page, a video plays a commercial for Votivo, a pesticide that protects crops from nematodes. <br />
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About the size of a cell phone screen, the video also plays four other commercials when readers push "play" buttons on the advertisement. Now, why they'd do that is a different question altogether…<br />
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The magazine, which was first published in 1902, included the insert in 17,000 copies or about 4 percent of its subscribers, said Publisher Scott Mortimer. Meredith matched its database with Bayer's list of customers, and the advertisement also went to some farmers who have more than 1,000 acres.<br />
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According to the Des Moines media company, video-inserted advertisements have appeared in magazines only twice before. Americhip, which created the Successful Farming ad, also created similar advertisements for Pepsi and CBS to run in Entertainment Weekly last fall.<br />
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Two or three advertisers have requested information after seeing the ad in the August issue Mortimer said. "I imagine we'll see more of them. This is client-driven. It depends how much they want to push the envelope."<br />
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The U.S. Postal Service required that Successful Farming include the words "Magazine contains lithium-ion batteries" on its table of contents. This warning confused at least one reader who didn't receive the ad, Mortimer said.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-50877149134563787952010-05-16T09:55:00.001-05:002010-05-16T09:57:32.350-05:00Social Media Gets Booby Trapped!To be more precise, Giancarlo Massaro of <a href="http://anyluckyday.com/booby-trapped-men-beware-the-dirty-seven-sisters#comment-tab" target="_blank"><b>AnyLuckyDay.com</b></a> is running a 24 hour contest today, May 16, 2010, on his site and YouTube channel. Here is his video:<br />
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<b>FOUR lucky winners</b> will receive an autographed copy of the book <i>Booby Trapped: Men Beware! The Dirty Seven Sisters: A Dating Guide for the 21st Century</i> and the bonus CD album.<br />
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Our favorite author, June Marshall, teaches men to use their brains first to recognize the unsuitable mates who make up the Dirty Seven Sisters. To better illustrate each type, she includes celebrity examples, such as Angelina Jolie, Anna Nicole Smith, Brooke Shields, Cher, Dr. Laura, Jennifer Lopez, Joan Crawford, Julia Roberts, Kate Moss, Kathy Lee Gifford, Lorena Bobbit, Madonna, Mariah Carey, Marilyn Monroe, Meg Ryan, Melanie Griffith, Mia Farrow, Monica Lewinsky, Naomi Campbell, Tonya Harding, and many more.<br />
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This is your chance to win June's book and album. Head over to <a href="http://anyluckyday.com/booby-trapped-men-beware-the-dirty-seven-sisters#comment-tab" target="_blank">AnyLuckyDay.com</a> now!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-36008070328561543052010-02-03T16:19:00.001-05:002010-02-03T16:22:07.721-05:00iPad eTextbooks Coming to a Classroom Near You?Major textbook publishers have now struck deals with <a href="http://scrollmotion.com/" target="_blank"><b>ScrollMotion</b></a> to adapt their textbooks for the electronic age, as the industry embraces the notion that digital devices such as Apple's iPad could, and indeed will, transform the classroom.<br />
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"People have been talking about the impact of technology on education for 25 years. It feels like it is really going to happen in 2010," says Rik Kranenburg, group president of higher education for the education unit of McGraw-Hill, which is involved in the project.<br />
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Other publishers include Houghton Mifflin Harcourt K-12; Pearson Education, Kaplan Inc., known for its test-prep and study guides.<br />
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A great many developers and publishers are working on applications that will run on the iPad and other digital devices. Publishers, who have invested heavily in digital educational content in recent years are about to see their just rewards.<br />
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Compass Intelligence, a market research firm in Scottsdale, Ariz., estimates that technology spending in the U.S. educational market could grow to $61.9 billion in 2013, from $47.6 billion in 2008.<br />
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So far, digital educational products and applications has largely been confined to desktops and laptops. Truth be told, most college students have been slow to embrace e-textbooks; however, the portability if iPad and other upcoming tablets could, and probably will change that.<br />
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<b>Will the iPad be the digital device to transform the classroom?</b> "Nobody knows what device will take off, or which 'killer app' will drive student adaptations. Today they aren't reading e-textbooks on their laptops. But ahead we see all kinds of new instruction materials," opines Mr. Kranenburg.<br />
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Though Apple didn't outline its strategy to target the educational sector with its iPad last week, the iPad's use in schools was one of the focal points of discussions in developing it. In its exploration of electronic book technology, Apple did focus on how it could re-invent textbooks. That's not surprising, as Apple has an edge in the educational sector; its Macintosh computers have always enjoyed a strong following in the academic sphere, and it already offers educational audio and video content through its iTunes University service.<br />
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The iPad will also be helped by the interest that schools have always had in tablet-form computers. Science teachers, for example, could use them to take lab notes, which often have a combination of sentences, charts and mathematical equations, while others could bring them on field trips. "This is the beginning of handheld education," according to John Lema, CEO of ScrollMotion.<br />
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ScrollMotion's iPad deal with publishers include applications to let students play video, highlight text, record lectures, take printed notes, search the text, and participate in interactive quizzes to test how much they've learned and where they may need more work... and they can enjoy their fun stuff when nobody watches....June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-39261947328383795392010-01-09T17:37:00.001-05:002010-01-09T17:37:08.488-05:00reBlog from milliondollarwebtv.com: Million Dollar Web TV News<p>I found this fascinating quote today:</p><br /><blockquote class="zemanta-reblog-quote" style="margin: 1em 3em;"><br /><p><strong>If the proof is in the “eating of the ‘digital’ pudding,”</strong> our newest member advertiser, <a href="http://newmediapublishing.com/">Newmedia Publishing</a>, is a prime example of this trend. They have been producing digital versions of their authors’ and artists’ books and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Album">albums</a> since 1999, when they set up shop. Congratulations and thanks for becoming our first advertiser of 2010!<span class="attribution zemanta-reblog-cite" style="text-align: right; display: block; width: 100%; padding-top: 1em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px;">milliondollarwebtv.com, <a href="http://www.milliondollarwebtv.com/mdwtvblg/">Million Dollar Web TV News</a>, Jan 2010</span></p><br /></blockquote><br /><p>You should read the whole article.</p>June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-63028183942837783392009-12-29T20:59:00.000-05:002009-12-29T20:59:31.652-05:00Blio from Ray Kurzweil : The REAL Game Changer Ebook Reader?I<b>s it "move-over time" for Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, et. al.?</b> We've hardly gotten used to you ... but there’s a new e-book technology on the block. Meet Blio, the junior competitor that’s poised to take a bite out of your market.<br />
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Ray Kurzweil — who is best known for his 2005 book <i><b>The Singularity Is Near</b></i> — has worked extensively in areas such as optical character recognition, speech recognition, and text-to-speech synthesis. His company, Kurzweil Technologies, has a joint venture with the National Federation of the Blind called knfb Reading Technology to create reading products for people with disabilities. knfb Reading is the company that has created Blio.<br />
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Blio's official debut will be at the Consumer Electronics show on January 7th, the same time Plastic Logic will introduce their new Que. Apple’s long-rumored tablet is not far behind. But amid all the bells and whistles of current gray-scale technology, the bet is that Blio will steal the show.<br />
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Blio actually lays out the “pages” as they are seen on paper, with typography and illustrations copied across. It also supports video and animation. One of Blio’s major advantages over current e-book readers is that the software offers a full color experience. E Ink, which is the black-and-white display used currently in almost all e-readers, works best for text; even then most e-books still look ugly, due to design limitations in the readers.<br />
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In some ways, it’s like the interactive magazine applications (also meant for upcoming tablet devices) shown off by the likes of Time Warner, Bonnier, and Conde Nast.<br />
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Blio was born out of a strong digital media partnership. Baker and Taylor, a distributor of paper and digital books and entertainment products, will provide K-NFB Reading Technology with digital content for an e-reader platform developed by Ray Kurzweil and the National Federation of the Blind. As such, it features enhanced text-to-speech capabilities.<br />
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In collaboration with Nokia, the reading software is especially designed for their mobile phones to create the smallest text-to-speech reading devices available thus far. But it’s not exclusive to them. Even though it’s a proprietary product of Baker and Taylor, the K-NFB e-reader can run on PC or Mac laptops and desktop computers, as well as netbooks and other mobile phones such as the iPhone, no dedicated device required.<br />
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Industry experts such as Mike Shatzkin, CEO of Idea Logical Company and a 40-year publishing veteran thinks Blio has game-changing potential on the business of e-books.<br />
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The setup and tool kit for the publishers is without cost; Baker and Taylor plans to make its money on the transactions. They’re wholesaling on whatever the established terms are with that publisher. They will also host and provide e-commerce support to bookstores and publishers who sell direct. There are potential devils in those details but, to start, it is obviously hard for any publisher to resist incremental revenue for no setup cost.<br />
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<b>Rest assured you'll see our authors' books on Blio. Kudos are due to Baker and Taylor too!</b>June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-41231995534067321212009-11-05T20:48:00.005-05:002009-11-05T20:58:07.225-05:00Shortcovers Discovers PredatoressIrrespective of the name, Shortcovers is anything but short on covers. Actually, it is the ebook distributor and sales channel for Indigo Books and Music, Canada's largest book retailer, operating bookstores in all 10 provinces under the Indigo, Chapters, World's Biggest Bookstore, and Coles names. It also operates <a href="http://chapters.indigo.ca/" target="_blank">chapters.indigo.ca</a>, its own online retailer of books, music, movies, and more. <br /><br />While it has taken a good while, we are proud to be able to announce that our favorite vampire author, <a href="http://www.shortcovers.com/mixes/Predatoress/book-prFSv43NEE-wjBf-rrYnXw/page1.html" target="_blank">Emma Gabor's Predatoress ebook is now available through Shortcovers</a>. They did a great job of turning it into the Adobe ePub format, which seems to be in the process of becoming the de-facto standard for ebooks. Rightly so, in my experience! <br /><center><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIk0EtScUKNvX0_V8oP4Nbom1iaDJNVPoGVnHZGLaBPtgXL_yKNtrOyrj2KEJVALz0rzZ_02-W-fOH_GGKcvv7af9onARXinfoTlbNUBHlda0yJ24DPH1D9ZQ9hhNPbm7NCsxantCB_RV7/s1600-h/predatoress-ebook-on-shortc.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 319px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIk0EtScUKNvX0_V8oP4Nbom1iaDJNVPoGVnHZGLaBPtgXL_yKNtrOyrj2KEJVALz0rzZ_02-W-fOH_GGKcvv7af9onARXinfoTlbNUBHlda0yJ24DPH1D9ZQ9hhNPbm7NCsxantCB_RV7/s400/predatoress-ebook-on-shortc.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5400802641230946162" /></a><br /></center><br />Additionally, let's not forget about all the fantastic deals you can get daily via <a href="http://twitter.com/IndigoDeals" target="_blank">Indigo's Twitter account here....</a>June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-48593343017896147242009-10-21T20:45:00.003-05:002009-10-21T20:52:52.360-05:00Nooked !<a href="http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/10/barnes-nobles-kindle-killing-dual-screen-nook-e-reader-leaked/" target="_blank">Coverage from Wired's Gadget Lab</a> on the <span style="font-weight:bold;">Nook</span>, Barnes and Noble's first e-book reader is VERY positive: "Sleek, stylish and runs Google's Android OS. What's not to like about Barnes and Noble's new e-book reader? Despite the odd name, the Nook looks like an eBook reader that would actually be a worthwhile investment. <br /><center><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGl7F5bEbJWMBeLioVChPMskI57wThqRDVFf4znW56yxUXLzePQD1ly9JJrnu8T_iY8JD2G_tzhj-EYXal6Ja19ZVPjFAbpDQZhvMUdz4O9sfmYhYStWqccymEuDPYrJnITY1_boc6Obc/s1600-h/features_wifi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuGl7F5bEbJWMBeLioVChPMskI57wThqRDVFf4znW56yxUXLzePQD1ly9JJrnu8T_iY8JD2G_tzhj-EYXal6Ja19ZVPjFAbpDQZhvMUdz4O9sfmYhYStWqccymEuDPYrJnITY1_boc6Obc/s400/features_wifi.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395235974670520098" /></a><br /></center><br />Best feature? The ability to loan e-books you have downloaded to other Nook owners.<br /><br />The reader looks a lot like Amazon's white plastic e-book, only instead of the chiclet-keyboard there is a color multi-touch screen, to be used as both a keyboard or to browse books, cover-flow style. The machine runs Google's Android OS, will have wireless capability from an unspecified carrier, and comes in at the same $260 as the now rather old-fashioned-looking Kindle." <br /><br />Now, how long has it taken for the Kindle DX to become "rather old-fashioned-looking?" Three months or so? I have a hunch that Nook will be called something similar when Apple's rumored iTablet hits the shelves next year.<br /><br />Here is the B&N Nook site, which is still not visible on their front page. It still has a few non-working links. See how the <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/nook/features/" target="_blank">comparison page</a> takes dead aim at the Kindle?<br /><br />Among the advantages in Nook's column you'll find: Wi-Fi, expandable memory via microSD, MP3 player, and PDF compatibility. <br /><br />However I'm old enough to remember B&N abandoning ebooks once, six years ago. Here is to wish them much more luck this time around!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-87978259510609751832009-10-08T14:30:00.006-05:002009-10-08T14:40:29.785-05:00Something IS Flashy in Denmark: The UniFlip Online Flip-page PublisherUniFlip takes your books, catalogs, magazines, reports as PDF, Word, Powerpoint, and RTF files and publishes them into the Flash multi-media format, that looks like a physical binded book with pages that actually flip!<br /><center><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL54gl0d3pGTARfzjYPu5s8kQsC20c6BLCNQt2kqByg3U5I0OazwCoiNQ7VQHd2s9Xcl3aarTkN0WrzwKLYKtVSeBG_b7z0A32uHHCusef20-uc9Ufha78E4DCLV7cE3TC16wi7gGVlB7m/s1600-h/uniflip.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5390315063697715202" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 133px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL54gl0d3pGTARfzjYPu5s8kQsC20c6BLCNQt2kqByg3U5I0OazwCoiNQ7VQHd2s9Xcl3aarTkN0WrzwKLYKtVSeBG_b7z0A32uHHCusef20-uc9Ufha78E4DCLV7cE3TC16wi7gGVlB7m/s400/uniflip.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></center><br />Your publications do look and read like traditional books and magazines with flip-through pages. The search functions allow your readers to find key words, phrases, or sentences; a convenient index and hyperlinks help them locate information quickly; a zoom function keeps the pages crisp, smooth, and easy to read. Zoooom is really cool!<br /><br />It requires no software installation - everything takes place online, including distribution via your web site, blog, email, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Publishing does not get easier than that...at least the production part of it....<br /><br />Mind you, <a href="http://www.uniflip.com/" target="_blank">UniFlip is not free</a>. The price starts at US $79/title up to 4 titles and progressively decreases with your number of titles. We, of course, plan to evaluate it. If it works as advertised, you'll be able to flip-through our ebooks...errrr flipbooks soon.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-41379285160141578552009-10-01T19:45:00.002-05:002009-10-01T19:51:08.179-05:00What Is a Vook?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47RouiNnUkdptxpG_ffiaberiEtHBDNxKUA-S5rx7ESgoet1nTKJGmYvsyW4uqxOLSe_21W1h7f8oIgqOF-chSEMzKAQlgrzFJaEwJa2pauTIc6bIYUfJ_UCY_1UnDx5rLDUMXI2nfhUO/s1600-h/vook.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 237px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh47RouiNnUkdptxpG_ffiaberiEtHBDNxKUA-S5rx7ESgoet1nTKJGmYvsyW4uqxOLSe_21W1h7f8oIgqOF-chSEMzKAQlgrzFJaEwJa2pauTIc6bIYUfJ_UCY_1UnDx5rLDUMXI2nfhUO/s400/vook.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5387797955187939570" /></a><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">A vook is the latest innovation in reading - from, you guessed right, Vook.com - that blends a beautifully laid-out book, high-quality video, and the power of the Internet into a single, complete story.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; min-height: 18.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">You can read your book and watch videos at the same time, that enhance the story. Plus, you get to connect with authors and your friends through social media all on one screen, without switching between platforms.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; min-height: 18.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">Vooks are available in two formats: As a web-based application you can read on your computer and a mobile application for reading on the go. With the web-based application you don't have to download programs or install software. Just open your favorite browser and start reading and watching in an exciting new way. You can also download and install the mobile applications through the Apple iTunes store and sync them with your iPhone or iPod.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"><br /></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">Well done, Vook!</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; min-height: 18.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">P.S. We've contacted them to get our latest and upcoming titles made into "Vooks." I'll report back on our progress. </p>June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-72404030170139125432009-09-06T09:00:00.005-05:002009-09-06T09:14:02.635-05:00Amazon Making Good on Pulled Orwell EbooksRemember? Back in July, Amazon faced public outrage over their decision to delete ebook copies of <i>1984</i> and <i>Animal Farm</i>, from the Kindle e-readers of customers who'd purchased them. Shortly thereafter, CEO Jeff Bezos offered an apology, acknowledging that Amazon handled the situation in a "stupid" and "thoughtless" manner.<br /><br />If you are one of these Kindle owners, <b>h</b><b>ere is the good news</b>: now, Amazon is offering something much more substantial to you:<br /><br />1. Anyone who had an ebook deleted can now have it restored, apparently with annotations intact.<br /><br />2. Any customer who isn't interested in a new copy can get either an Amazon gift certificate or a check for $30.<br /><br />If you are not a Kindle owner, this may be just the incentive for you to become one....June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-27523481454063924632009-08-22T19:24:00.007-05:002009-08-22T19:51:24.367-05:00Predatoress Interview on Fascinating Authors<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGB1zQoBZncorNr__CopXgyGYVI5c8nW73KyxWpjiPVXbjRsSLANTX5Hl2SGMWa1Ur1VjzdthVYsmAIcFsIi1fe5v7suXrhJaFF4sYusB_9ykOke5dIhoXAqKantF-H3Wj5xnfFDEJijp/s1600-h/Emma-avatar-100x100.jpg"></a><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000099;">Q & A with Fascinating Authors' Penny Sansevieri</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What excites you most about your book’s topic? Why did you choose it?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> The subject of women who are forced to live at the edge of society has always fascinated me. From Hester Prynne to Anna Karenina, females have suffered for giving into compulsions beyond their control. Beautiful, strong women paying severe prices for their choices, is a topic that intrigues me.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">Add to this the eternal questions about the meaning of life and death. The question, “Is immortality a desirable state?” is an inquiry that can have many intriguing answers– from Kurzweil’s “yes,” to Emma Gabor’s “no.” No, not when immortality perpetuates the bloodshed that we currently have on earth.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: How long did the book take you from start to finish?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> Two years. I wrote it in one year and let it languish. Then I resurrected it when I saw the public’s acceptance of Twilight. I had been a reluctant vampire too but thought no one would like to hear my story.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What aspect of writing the book did you find particularly challenging?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> Making myself understood as a character who meant no harm and had a great desire to do good. My deeds make me look otherwise. Also, the way I treat my friends does not show me to my advantage. I wanted to make myself likable but also to tell the truth about how I behaved: Imperious and controlling. The way I lied to the parents who loved me with immense devotion was also not admirable, causing me to appear even less likable.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What surprised you the most about the book writing process?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A:</b> I found myself feeling horrendous guilt as I wrote about my experiences–especially where I was continually lying to my parents about my true identity. I thought I would be able to give a scientific, factual account and as I was writing, tears were gushing hotly out of my eyes, to the point where I could hardly see.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: Did you have any favorite experiences when writing your book?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> Finding out that I had a sense of humor about the situation I was in. My writing kept that ironic spark that made me enjoy re-reading it. And re-read it I did! I re-read it so many times, there isn’t one word that I haven’t weighed, turned over, and examined.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What do you hope your readers will gain from reading your book?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A:</b> A compelling journey to a part of the world few people visit. A first-hand account of what it feels like to be a young female vampire who is also a precocious scientist. Insight into forgiveness and mercy.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What projects are you currently working on?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> I am working on my website Predatoress.com and a number of supporting blogs.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: Is writing your sole career? If not, what else do you do?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A:</b> Yes, writing is my sole means of support.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: Did you do any research for your books, or did you write from experience?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A:</b> I’m from the town of Sopron and did not need to research it, except for historical research on vampires of the region.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: How did you come up with your title?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">A: It was originally The Hungarian Bride. My publisher suggested <i>Predatoress</i> with the subtitle <i>Hungarian Bride.</i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: What books have influenced you the most?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>A: </b> Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, and anything from Edgar Allen Poe.</p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Q: Who was your publisher and why did you choose them?</b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><br /></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica">A: Newmedia Publishing because they are willing to take a chance on unusual topics and unknown authors who show great promise.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><br /></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold; ">Rather listen? Here is the audio podcast.</span></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><br /></p><br /><center><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjGB1zQoBZncorNr__CopXgyGYVI5c8nW73KyxWpjiPVXbjRsSLANTX5Hl2SGMWa1Ur1VjzdthVYsmAIcFsIi1fe5v7suXrhJaFF4sYusB_9ykOke5dIhoXAqKantF-H3Wj5xnfFDEJijp/s400/Emma-avatar-100x100.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372951636064290642" style="float: middle; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 100px; " /><br /><!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code BEGIN --><br /><p class="aaplayer"><iframe src="http://www.audioacrobat.com/playweb?audioid=P0d356426ec18be89b02e6f0e3059be25Z1p7QFREYWN9&buffer=5&shape=3&fc=FFCC00&pc=AAAAFF&kc=888800&bc=FFFFFF&brand=1&player=ap03" scrolling="no" width="164" frameborder="0" height="20"></iframe></p><p><!-- AudioAcrobat.com Player code END --></p><br /></center>June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-31458486443145267032009-07-04T13:09:00.010-05:002009-07-04T13:57:21.908-05:00Predatoress Unleashed on the 4th of July<b>In a global first</b>, we announced yesterday at the Center for Independent Publishing in New York the release of<i><b> Predatoress</b></i>, together with its companion wine, <b>Blood</b>™. The latest in the blockbuster vampire genre, <i>Predatoress</i> is now available online and in stores; and at <a href="http://Predatoress.com/blood.html" target="_blank">Predatoress.com</a> in a custom gift box with Blood™.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3iQVkmQWHxI_A9U5CMWXBkVhQint-Lh_-KcZECoHs-Cl9rlqFOras8oLhTi-qcAk22sdvCPc7hV7Shlw9E8LOku3GDQa2YcLMJ2uPRbagL_EKnZsuxihZoGk6f6OF4xoQWm9PnsxKAI0/s1600-h/predatoress-blood-gift-package-250x300.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEje3iQVkmQWHxI_A9U5CMWXBkVhQint-Lh_-KcZECoHs-Cl9rlqFOras8oLhTi-qcAk22sdvCPc7hV7Shlw9E8LOku3GDQa2YcLMJ2uPRbagL_EKnZsuxihZoGk6f6OF4xoQWm9PnsxKAI0/s400/predatoress-blood-gift-package-250x300.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354671388584267058" /></a><br />Written by a gifted and beautiful college freshman, Emma, this is the story of how she is victimized by a vampire in Transdanubia, Hungary. In turn, she selfishly vampirizes her three best friends for companionship in her nightly quest for human blood. The predatoress is born.<br /><br />As she becomes a blood-thirsty vampire, she constantly questions her morality as she foists herself upon victim after victim. Compelled by survival and unwilling to tread this path alone, she vampirizes my three best friends, Kati, Gizi, and Eszti. She goes on bloodthirsty rampages every night with her best friends, luring their victims through charm and sexuality or simply overpowering them with tricks and violence.<br /><br />Out on the town one night at Club Colosso for a joint feeding session with her friends, she dances with Zoltan Szabo, a genetic research fellow at the university. They form a friendship based on scientific interests and fall in love at a charity ball held in the ancient castle of Frakno. Emma now realizes that working with Zoltan could be the key to freeing her and her friends from this terrible scourge of vampirism! She must, with great pain, hold back from telling him the truth and from making him one of The Undead.<br /><br />Her conscience and desire to love Zoltan and live a normal life drives her to find a cure for vampirism and AIDS through original genetic research. She has a chance to rid the world of vampires once and for all and become a power for good.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Contact her at Predatoress.com</span><br /><br />As Emma returns from the Undead, her story and life unfolds on her site, <a href="http://predatoress.com/blood/" target="_blank">blog</a>, Facebook, Twitter, and other venues. Fans can reach her directly at any of these web and mobile locations.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">How to get the book</span><br /><br />Predatoress is available to the trade from Ingram Book Group and Baker & Taylor as of July 4, 2009. Readers can subsequently order and buy it directly at Barnes & Noble, Borders, Waldenbooks, Books-A-Million, and other stores as well as web sites, including Amazon.com and Powell's.<br /><br />The following ebook and mbook (mobile book) editions are can be downloaded from Amazon, Powell's Scribd, Feedbooks, and most other ebook stores:<br /><br />* The PDF ebook file for your computer<br />* The Mobipocket ebook file for your <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002E19W98" target="_blank">Kindle</a> <br />* The ePub ebook file for your <a href="http://www.feedbooks.com/userbook/5804" target="_blank">iPod and iPhone</a> <br />* The PDB ebook file for your Palm smartphone <br />* And the LRF file for your Sony Reader <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluVkrmvgBgZhjb9BDATNSOBeOoMr5w0Gkk5F8ClbnGYC-cJv5vvjGKpAs8Pi9ZTVB5HOLoiwkw3EQLKdHm3LlWj-V2nu0KsBAJTi-IQUqxCDSNChKg_YpZIDuRbVZbW6BrrB9DIFYjEv_/s1600-h/Predatoress-on-Kindle.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 280px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhluVkrmvgBgZhjb9BDATNSOBeOoMr5w0Gkk5F8ClbnGYC-cJv5vvjGKpAs8Pi9ZTVB5HOLoiwkw3EQLKdHm3LlWj-V2nu0KsBAJTi-IQUqxCDSNChKg_YpZIDuRbVZbW6BrrB9DIFYjEv_/s400/Predatoress-on-Kindle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354674800709989378" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Predatoress is also available totally FREE</span> <a href="http://predatoress.com/free-book.html" target="_blank">at predatoress.com</a>, through TrialPay's arrangement with American Express, Apple, Blockbuster, Discover, FTD Flowers, Match.com, Netflix, Real, Skype, Sony, and many others.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">A true gift for Vampire Lovers</span><br /><br />In the true meaning of the word, the black and red vampire gift box is a one-of-a-kind gift for lovers of the genre, interested or immersed in vampire lore or goth culture. Blood™ is the finest ruby red Zinfandel, the perfect wine to sip while being engrossed in <span style="font-style:italic;">Predatoress</span>. It is available only in the <a href="http://predatoress.com/blood.html" target="_blank" >gift package</a> from predatoress.com, until distribution to retail stores.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-88736401888577795582009-05-28T20:02:00.015-05:002009-05-28T20:58:22.099-05:00Predatoress Bites BEA (Book Expo America)<span style="font-weight:bold;">Translation</span>: This morning we delivered the <a href="http://predatoress.com/" target="_blank">Predatoress and Blood™</a> dessert wine gift pack for display at the <a href="http://newtitleshowcase.com/book_details.php?bookid=2532" target="_blank">New Title Showcase section of Book Expo America</a>. A terrible drive to the J. Javits Center in NYC, but worth every mile!<br /><center><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCRjD7aXYNgDkHulKE4P0Lz152w2sBcqpLVXIWyo7QL9KovCZ8gXh0n_1PaN8pIHQ8fBBRCKmBwAgcUDuAl9RuabEHnh-gCu2trHjSQCVGRlcGKF22mWyh93B8rZSoTYbik-kdgifxhNmy/s1600-h/June-Predatoress+Blood-BEA'.jpg"><img style="text-align: center;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCRjD7aXYNgDkHulKE4P0Lz152w2sBcqpLVXIWyo7QL9KovCZ8gXh0n_1PaN8pIHQ8fBBRCKmBwAgcUDuAl9RuabEHnh-gCu2trHjSQCVGRlcGKF22mWyh93B8rZSoTYbik-kdgifxhNmy/s400/June-Predatoress+Blood-BEA'.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5341050417127785970" /></a><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And yes, this is our own June Marshall, marketing maven, author, artist, etc. etc....<br /></div></center><br />Yes, yes, I know, in our <a href="http://newmediapublishing.com/Authors/authors.html" target="_blank">Author section</a> we still show the old title <span style="font-style:italic;">The Hungarian Bride - Dracula Defeated.</span> Not for long, as Predatoress will be released the 4th of July, just a few days later than the promised Q2 publish date. Thank you, Emma!<br /><br />As of now, our marketing campaign is in full swing: in addition to exhibiting at the BEA, we already started a Print Campaign and are ready to roll with:<br /><br />* Our Virtual Author Tour<br />* Blog Tour<br />* Fascinating Author Interview and Podcast<br />* Social Networking Tour<br />* Microblogging Campaign<br /><br />This is a LOT, but we and our marketing partners from <a href="http://amarketingexpert.com/" target="_blank">Author Marketing Experts</a> are up to the task!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-10592091604938330122009-05-05T10:34:00.006-05:002009-05-05T10:59:04.355-05:00Will New Digital Readers Save the Newspapers?According to the <a href=". http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/04/technology/companies/04reader.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a> (which should know, as it has been steadily losing readers and advertisers like the rest of the trade), several newspapers plan to introduce digital newspaper readers by the end of the year.<br /><br />The devices will have screens roughly the size of a standard sheet of paper to present much of the editorial and advertising content of traditional periodicals in generally the same format as they appear in print. Publishers hope the new readers may be a way to get consumers to pay for those periodicals — something they have been reluctant to do on the Web. This could save millions on the cost of printing and distributing, just when business is under historic levels of pressure.<br /><br />"We are looking at this with a great deal of interest," says John Ridding, CEO of the 121-year-old British newspaper <span style="font-style:italic;">The Financial Times</span>. "The severe double whammy of the recession and the structural shift to the Internet has created an urgency that has rightly focused attention on these devices."<br /><br />The new tablets do have some serious shortcomings: the screens, which are currently in the Kindle and Sony Reader, display no color or video and update images at a slower rate than traditional computer screens. Then there is the contrary opinion that says digital readers are too little, too late. "If these devices had been ready for the<br />general consumer market five years ago, we probably could have taken advantage of them quickly," says Roger Fidler, program director for digital publishing at the University of Missouri, Columbia. "Now the earliest we might see large-scale consumer adoption is next year, and unlike the iPod it's going to be a slower process migrating people from print to the device."<br /><br />I agree. Once the early adopter market is saturated, it will take a long while, especially in this economy, to switch "mass market" readers to e-papers. Unless they are given away free, and/or as part of a subscription plan. Similar to mobile phone plans, maybe?June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-41382407199463082402009-04-26T15:17:00.006-05:002009-05-28T21:34:40.030-05:00Espresso (Book Machine) Anyone?Tomorrow, on April 27, Blackwell, one of the largest booksellers and distributors in the UK and the world, will launch a three month trial of the Espresso Book Machine, in its Charing Cross Road branch in London.<br /><br /><center><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXPdjCMa8msGuQAMvj889mUpD_OdmMgNw6MfAbGALgHueutfiZz49TMix2AOTjOBsRYitIy25rBGyH48-2Y4itPbIVN0kFfuoijTejCuMdpq37JvTEj16FTi7XLM-52OBDgwgpoByjwzE/s1600-h/Espresso+Book+Machine.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwXPdjCMa8msGuQAMvj889mUpD_OdmMgNw6MfAbGALgHueutfiZz49TMix2AOTjOBsRYitIy25rBGyH48-2Y4itPbIVN0kFfuoijTejCuMdpq37JvTEj16FTi7XLM-52OBDgwgpoByjwzE/s400/Espresso+Book+Machine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5329100774897200082" /></a><br />The Espresso Book Machine<br /></center><br /><br />This is a "Print-on-Demand" service for shoppers in an effort to consign to history the idea that you can walk into a bookshop and not find the book you want.<br /><br />The idea is, that you can choose from any of some 400,000 titles and print the one(s) you choose right on the spot. Blackwell's goal is to extend this to a million titles by the summer, and to spread out more machines to the rest of its sixty stores once it works out pricing.<br /><br />Currently, they charge shelf price for in-print books, and 10 pence per page for those out of print (about $55 for a 300-page book), but are analyzing customer behavior to get a better pricing model. Says Blackwell chief executive Andrew Hutchings: "This could change bookselling fundamentally. It's giving the chance for smaller locations, independent booksellers, to have the opportunity to truly compete with big stock-holding shops and Amazon ... I like to think of it as the revitalization of the local bookshop industry."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.blackwell.com" target="_blank">Their website notes</a> that in addition to getting books printed in-store, in the future you will be able to order titles via their site too. (They also mention that one of the titles you can print is the 1915 Oxford Poetry Book, which includes one of Tolkien's first poems, "Goblin's Feet.")<br /><br />Just as importantly, you'll also be able to bring in your own book to print from two PDF files, one for the book block and one for the cover. That should get your penmanship going!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-79999366538242996952009-04-14T13:39:00.010-05:002009-04-15T09:49:35.999-05:00Eating My Words - Thanks "Weev!"So it goes...Amazon has been right...sort of...this big brouhaha about gay and erotic books losing their sales ranks was either/or:<br /><br />1. The doing of the (by now) infamous Internet "troll" calling himself "Weev." This is a link to his <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/brutal_honesty/3168992.html" target="_blank">Monday Live Journal blog posting</a>, written by him or someone claiming to be him.<br /><br /><center><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkICKlLp6sgX7G8mSBSixcf_-7kFhstWmn1WXrvETA94JLFll0cMA-yDkD-x3girV8vjkKAyOkV39GN7XPc2RwQeo-xqt8EnXO1aIzneIf9y_rBNEYp8l2vIFvXaEVwRSsxdmw-fO99dA/s1600-h/weev.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPkICKlLp6sgX7G8mSBSixcf_-7kFhstWmn1WXrvETA94JLFll0cMA-yDkD-x3girV8vjkKAyOkV39GN7XPc2RwQeo-xqt8EnXO1aIzneIf9y_rBNEYp8l2vIFvXaEVwRSsxdmw-fO99dA/s400/weev.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324625325875126530" /></a><br /></center><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br /><br></br><br />Short quote:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"Here's a nice piece I like to call 'how to cause moral outrage from the entire Internet in ten lines of code.'</span>"<br /><br />2. Not to be outdone, Mike Daisey, a theatrical monologuist and author of <span style="font-style:italic;">21 Dog Years</span> about working at Amazon, says the Sales Rank yank was the result of a French employee of Amazon confusing the codes for "adult," "erotic," and "sexuality."<br /><br />This, however, doesn't completely explain why books about straight pornography were unaffected. Daisey says "the Amazon [editing] system is mostly hand-built, and often super idiosyncratic, very Millennium Falcon meets Battlestar Galactica."<br /><br />Either/or, I'm eating my words. Sorry, Amazon, about falling for this gripe storm!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-1039141709639064132009-04-13T13:30:00.003-05:002009-04-13T13:43:47.777-05:00Amazon's GBLT and Erotica “Glitch”As you probably know by now, Mark Probst's post -- he is an Amazon Advantage publisher like us -- on a <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/" target="_blank">Live Journal</a> blog about the disappearance of the Amazon sales ranking for two recently-released gay romance books, has created a virtual netstorm. Probst also posted the explanation, received from Amazon Advantage Member Services representative Ashlyn D: "In consideration of our entire customer base, we exclude 'adult' material from appearing in some searches and best seller lists. Since these lists are generated using sales ranks, adult materials must also be excluded from that feature."<br /><br />As word spread via blog postings and Twitter (where #amazonfail became the top "trending" topic), people asserted that sales rankings and other search-matching features had disappeared from what appeared to be many gay and lesbian books on Amazon, as well as erotica/erotic romance titles. (Without a sales rank, a title cannot appear on a category bestseller list, and it is said to inhibit other kinds of search matching and recommendations as well.)<br /><br />However, such anti-Semitic texts as Adolf Hitler's <span style="font-style:italic;">Mein Kampf</span> and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Protocols of the Elders of Zion</span> remain within the ranking system while much less offensive books like the ones named above, are considered too "adult." In other words, if you're a writer who has written openly about sex, gays, and gay sex, Amazon considers you worse than an anti-Semitic writer who helped initiate pogroms and concentration camps.<br /><br />Yesterday evening Amazon spokesman Andrew Herdener responded, "We recently discovered a glitch to our Amazon sales rank feature that is in the process of being fixed. We're working to correct the problem as quickly as possible...things will go back to how they were before."<br /><br />Disbelievers nevertheless continued "tweeting" on Twitter (adding the hashtag #glitchmyass), while others have been looking closely at Amazon metadata for clues. Over at <a href="http://dearauthor.com/" target="_blank">Dear Author</a> they have deduced that "it appears that all the content that was filtered out had either 'gay,' 'lesbian,' 'transgender,' 'erotic' or 'sex' metadata categories." <br /><br />Raging, the culture war still is!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-48860795601712630362009-02-10T10:39:00.007-05:002009-02-16T20:43:23.825-05:00Kindle G2 -- Amazon's Breakthrough Ebook Reader500 years ago there was a new tool, called a book. It hasn't changed much. Until now.<br /><br />Amazon has been selling ebooks for years. It didn't work... until fourteen months ago when they started to sell the Kindle.<br /><center><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOjey0Q3r2WTBITH9tJtCfrHwsULrIlVp0W9AvLcsF7fBXscfwU9xXK5wIJqqi2y9qRbbVZeoXnv_QiLnTvOfueYLCpjW9SPwKi-Vi6BAQJDMR0ZF6pY6Uej4v20IZ59BLGjJDnLLM4Uz/s1600-h/kindle-2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyOjey0Q3r2WTBITH9tJtCfrHwsULrIlVp0W9AvLcsF7fBXscfwU9xXK5wIJqqi2y9qRbbVZeoXnv_QiLnTvOfueYLCpjW9SPwKi-Vi6BAQJDMR0ZF6pY6Uej4v20IZ59BLGjJDnLLM4Uz/s400/kindle-2.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5301195116999015570" /></a><br /></center><br /><br><br /><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br /><br />Now 10% of the units Amazon sells are Kindle book sales. AMAZING!<br /><br />A quick rundown on what's new and improved from Kindle v.1:<br /><br />* The location of the buttons is smooth and efficient.<br /><br />* It reads aloud! The sound is fairly good -- still computer-like, but totally listenable. I wonder, though. How will the Author's Guild feel about that? <br /><br />* The screen seems more responsive.<br /><br />* The 5-way controller lets you go to sections, preview stories, and move a cursor through documents for word searches. <br /><br />* Whispersync: Read a little on your device, switch to another one, read there -- it will keep your page wirelessly. <br /><br />* It has 7 times more storage than the original.<br /><br />* It's thinner than the iPhone!<br /><br />Ships on February 24th. Price? $359. Not a steal but certainly is worth it for the serious reader.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-47716073260828166552009-02-06T21:27:00.004-05:002009-02-06T21:43:06.432-05:00Google and Amazon to Release E-Books on CellphonesTo bolster the --finally -- growing popularity of e-books, Google is working on publishing the 1.5 million public domain books it had already scanned and made available free on PCs, on mobile devices, like the iPhone <br />and the T-Mobile G1.<br /><br />Not surprisingly, Amazon is also working on making the titles for its popular e-book reader, the Kindle, available on a variety of mobile phones. <br /><br />The company, which is expected to unveil a new version of the Kindle next week, did not say when Kindle titles would be available on mobile phones. The Kindle currently offers about 230,000 titles.<br /><br />Googleís move greatly expands the number of e-books that you can read on the go. However, the public domain books available through Google Book Search are not likely to be the most popular titles, as they are older <br />books for which copyrights have expired. <br /><br />In contrast, the Kindle library includes scores of newly released books, including many current best sellers.<br /><br />Google promises to make other books available on mobile devices in the future, including out-of-print titles and current books it scans with the permission of publishing companies. Thank you, Google!<br /><br />Unlike the version of Google Book Search for PCs, which displays scanned images of book pages, the mobile version simply displays text, allowing users to download printed material more quickly over wireless networks.<br /><br />Several book reading programs are already available for the iPhone and other mobile devices, including Stanza from Lexcycle the eReader from Fictionwise, and TextOnPhone, which I've just started to test:<br /><br /><center><br /> <object width="445" height="4338"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWd8J8C3Gaw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/QWd8J8C3Gaw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></center><br /><br />No, this is NOT me in the video....<br /><br />Having started to do some reading on my iPhone, I find it is not my preferred way of getting immersed in a book. On the other hand, once the <a href="http://www.makeitv.com/index.php/3m-launches-first-pocket-projector.html" target="_blank">micro-projectors, like this one from 3M</a> get built into smartphones, I could see that changing. I bet that's when the e-book market will REALLY take off.June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1222597716356258084.post-5527480938704641592009-01-28T10:54:00.004-05:002009-01-28T11:03:09.278-05:00Do Book Sites and Videos Really Help to Sell Your Book?Truth be told, no one quite knows. Web presence seems to have taken the place of the book tour, especially in this tough economic environment. To see how that works, here are some examples:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">"I Was Told There’d Be Cake"</span><br /><br />Sloane Crosley's (herself a publicist at Vintage/Anchor) book, “I Was Told There’d Be Cake,” was released along with an accompanying Web site. It featured photographs of intricate dioramas, video and enough new material to fill a second book. Her observation: “I don’t know how well the success of book Web sites can be tracked, but they do get thrown into that priceless bucket of buzz.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">8 percent of book shoppers visit author Web sites</span><br /><br />A survey released last June by the Codex Group, a research firm that monitors trends in book buying, found that 8 percent of book shoppers had visited author Web sites in a given week. It didn’t, however, say how many clicked on the “buy the book” link.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Some authors think the buzz is worth the expense</span> <br /><br />A sizable industry has sprung up around building book and author sites. AuthorBytes, a multimedia company started in 2003, has built sites for more than 200 clients, including Paul Krugman, Chris Bohjalian and Khaled Hosseini. They cost from $3,500 to $35,000 — with writers paying about 85 percent of the time. The staff of 20 even includes three employees whose entire job is updating.<br /><br />“If an author is on the ‘Today’ show at 9 a.m., the clip will be up on her site within minutes,” says Steve Bennett, the company’s founder. “That’s a huge advantage, because fresh material is what keeps people coming back.”<br /><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">“The Shock Doctrine” as viral video</span> <br /><br />Some authors try to ratchet up the wow factor by including a book video. Modeled on movie trailers, these videos have become increasingly popular since 2006, with the advent of YouTube and MySpace.<br /><br />Many book videos are little better than home movies, painfully dull and almost laughably bad. But others are impressive, full-scale productions. Naomi Klein’s nearly seven-minute companion film to “The Shock Doctrine,” directed by Alfonso Cuarón with a full crew and shown at the 2007 Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals, has been downloaded more than a million times. <br /><br /><center><br /><object width="550" height="445"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/aSF0e6oO_tw&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/aSF0e6oO_tw&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object><br /></center><br /><br />“The film was a thing unto itself; it didn’t feel like an advertisement,” Klein said in a telephone interview. “But it was part of a viral phenomenon that made the book a best seller.”<br /><br />All right. I've been harping about the importance of web presence since 1999, when we started Newmedia Publishing. And the impact of Internet video since 2006. Heck, we even do what we preach: We have a web video production service and a site, <a href="http://MillionDollarWebTV.com/" target="_blank">MillionDollarWebTV</a>. Call or write if you need help!June Marshallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03852362667499796014noreply@blogger.com0