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An active life can make it tricky to read every book you would like to. Often we don’t see how long journeys and various other chores take up large chunks of our time. A demanding job, taking care of kids or looking after your house all cut down the free time available for your hobbies. If you really love learning and are finding it difficult to fit it in, time in the car might provide a chance to enjoy an audio-book. With user friendly download technology, you can relish Brimstone by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child available from Download Audio Book Online, or audiobooks brought to life by Alan Colmes without ever turning a page. In today’s busy environmant multi-tasking has become the norm. Audio books like Innovate Like Edison by Michael J. Gelb and Sarah Miller Caldicott by Download Audio Book Online fill the squandered moments in life, whether it is minutes spent waiting at the physician’s surgery or perhaps buying groceries. A tremendous variety of audio books are now available to download in mp3 format these include Without Fail by Lee Child, so make use of your mp3 player and use the opportunity to check out the current biography, for example audiobooks written by Jimmy Buffet without carrying cumbersome books with you. Audiobooks extend a multitude of benefits like the ability to rent or buy many titles and peruse them at your own pace. Do you wish to learn Spanish? Try audio books! Maybe innovative sales techniques are your thing, you may even explore religious or spiritual trends.

A tremendous selection of literary genres and titles exist. It really doesn’t matter if you like natural history, or if you are nuts over horror even interested in health and fitness, you can access many titles at once. Options are wide open; it’s easy to take a subscription to a rental service or make a purchase.

Reading will invariably have its place, even so the thousands of audio titles available are so handy. A author or actor can enhance the experience of numerous books. Simply reading a book is not quite the same as listening to an audio title performed by Francesca Simon, with the all the refinements of an actual rendition. Listening to audio titles recounted by Fern Michaels will bring more depth to your reading experience and often mean more than words on a page.

So next time whenever you think about buying a volume you might never find time to read, do not forget about audio-books as a different option.

Advantages: Complex characters, plot told from different viewpoints, realistic morality
Disadvantages: Depressing

The first book of the Song of Ice and Fire series is my first foray into George R.R. Martin’s world. Before I was introduced to his work, I was mainly a Robert Jordan fan. Upon reading A Game of Thrones, I realized that I was missing a huge part of the high fantasy genre.

From beginning to end, I was not sure whether or not I really liked the book. The plot was interesting enough. If it’s worth anything, I spent a couple of sleep-deprived nights reading A Game of Thrones! Now that I think back, I would say that the complexity of the characters and the plot as a whole is what made me hold back. Other fantasy novels usually define the line between good and evil very clearly. We have the good characters on one side and the evil powers on the other. George R.R. Martin manages to reflect reality by emphasizing the moral gray areas. Characters are not boxed into single moral categories. There is no clear protagonist. A “good” character is not totally likeable. An “evil” character seems to be a nice person on the inside. Good and bad is so maddeningly intertwined you can’t help but see a reflection of the real world.

This book is not for the faint of heart. If you are looking for light reading, free of violence and sex, you might not want to read A Game of Thrones. There were times when I thought Martin was overdoing it a bit. I decided I would just chalk it up to artistic freedom.

Another frustrating aspect of the book is that as the story progresses, it seems that the “good” guys are getting killed off one by one. If that isn’t enough to make you depressed I don’t know what is. Of course this is only the first book in a yet uncompleted series -the story is yet to unfold.

The storyline is gripping. It leaves you craving for more. One good thing about discovering this series at this late date is that you wouldn’t have to wait for the next few books to be written. A Feast for Crows, the fourth and latest book of the series, has been out since last year. Once you start with A Game of Thrones, you might want to pace yourself so as not to have to wait too long for the fifth book.

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Since the birth of publishing, authors have been forced to deal with the middlemen of this industry; the publishing houses. Often some of the best authors are turned away at the door because they are not “recognized” enough. Sometimes the best talent is rejected because big publishing houses just do not have time to look over all of the manuscripts. Well the times have changed. Now authors can self publish their material for next to nothing in the form of an ebook. While many traditionalist stubbornly claim that “customers won’t buy ebooks”, nothing could be further from the truth. Some ebook authors make exorbitant amounts of money. What’s better is they get to keep most of their profits. If you are thinking about writing a book, consider publishing it in ebook format. Here are some of the benefits of ebooks…

Lower costs than self publishing

Larger returns than many traditional publishing offers

Work on your own terms

Constant and growing profits

Here are some of the downfalls of self publishing ebooks:

You must learn online promotion strategies

Effectively you are the author, distributor, webmaster and many more positions

May require some knowledge of web design, book design etc etc

As you can see, digital publishing is not all fun and games. If you are serious about promoting your book online you should understand that you will no longer be just an author. You also take over the publisher’s role and become your own distribution agent. If you’re willing to sit down and do a little learning than transforming your book into digital format may be the right thing for you to do.

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Planning to offer free e-books to your email subscriber list?
Here are five ways to be sure that e-book gets saved to their
desktop as opposed to getting tossed into the Recycle Bin.

1. Keep it simple.

Your free e-book should be a sample of what’s to come…
marketing secrets revealed by a pro who knows what it takes to
sell on the web! Keep it informative and entertaining, but don’t
give away the whole story or there will be nothing left for the
piece de resistance. What’s the climax? Why, that upcoming
smoking promo that will be your seasonal cash cow, of course!

2. Keep it specific.

I can’t stress enough how much more credible you will appear if
you reveal the details as opposed to “keeping it distressingly
vague” like so many would-be marketers often do.
Emotionally-charged copy is super, but don’t forget to answer
every single Who What When Where How Why in EVERY chapter that
you write!

3. Keep it clean.

ALWAYS choose a font that’s easy to read, no matter what line of
business you’re in. This will be a book with lots of text. Book
fonts are very different from headline fonts, and to confuse the
two means an unprofessional look that means your e-book won’t
make it past the SAVE AS prompt. Text should be 10-12 point, and
no larger. Also avoid “busy color schemes, like bright blue text
against a red table, as they do tend to vibrate.

4. Keep it organized.

I know it’s dull, but you MUST give your e-book numbered pages,
a set of chapters and a Table of Contents where your reader can
easily look up what he’d like to learn. Think of how much
happier you feel when you can skip right to the section that you
want to read most at that particular time. Your reader feels the
same exact way as you do! So impress him with a little
organization.

5. Keep it brief.

Again, this is supposed to be F*REE information. Please do not
stress yourself out with hours of blood, sweat and tears in an
effort to create what should be a simple but informative
e-guide. Make it easy on yourself; outline your topic into three
or four sections, sub-categorize again, divide into main points
and then fill in the details. All told, you should have no more
than 15 pages (and no less than 8 if you want to be considered
an expert.)

That’s it, simple as pie and your e-book is packaged and ready
to ship via email express. Congratulations! You’re on your way
to graduating to Pro Marketer status.

Copyright 2005 Dina Giolitto. All rights reserved.

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