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How to Identify Great Book Ideas and Writing Opportunities
How to Identify Great Book Ideas and Writing Opportunities
The first and maybe the most important step in writing a book is coming up with a great idea for some really useful or interesting book. The great idea makes the writing fun. The great idea makes the book easier to sell to a publisher. In the end, the great idea means you’ve got a shot at making good money from your writing. Unfortunately, many new writers don’t have a clue as to how to do this.
Printing’s Lingo
Printing’s Lingo
To have the tongue of the pros in printing is indispensable to understand what they are trying to convey. Another reason is for you to take advantage of the printing techniques, materials and everything that concerns printing.
Are you a person who often runs out of words when talking to the prepress staff or a printer representative? Do you always search for the right words? Well, you can do something about it by improving your printing vocabulary and speak the lingo.
To help you begin, here are the critical terms in both prepress and printer:
Prepress terms:
Bleed - the amount of spare space necessary when ink runs of the page edge.
Finished size – refers to the final size of the print item after it has been folded, trimmed and ready for distribution.
How Can You Do It?
How Can You Do It?
You know it's true. Everyone has told you. You have to spend as much time as possible listening to a foreign language. But how?
* Co-Workers - Friends - Family
If you are fortunate enough to have people around you who speak the language, spend as much time as you can with them. Be forewarned, though.
How You can Learn from Successful People when You have Limited Time to Spare
How You can Learn from Successful People when You have Limited Time to Spare
"The shortest route to success in any field of endeavour and life in general, is to seek the company of those who have a great deal of wisdom."
~ Anthony Robbins, in his book Awaken the Giant Within
Learning from Successful People
In today’s fast-paced economy, staying ahead of competition has been a great concern to many. The old deal in business has changed. Lifetime employment is a thing of the past. With the advent of automation technology, hard skills can hardly guarantee you a life-long job.
Free eBook Publishing Guide – Part 2 – Features of the eBook market
Free eBook Publishing Guide – Part 2 – Features of the eBook market
The Current State of the Market
In my first article, I outlined the massive advantages to eBook publishing, particularly for the author! Now you have become excited by that, it is time to inject a little realism! Ever since the emergence of personal digital assistants (or ‘PDAs’) and the growth of the Internet, market enthusiasts have been predicting the ultimate demise of the printed book.
This is, of course, nonsense! Traditional books do not require a power supply or batteries and can be read even when badly damaged (so called “graceful degradation”). Printed pages have better contrast and fonts are serifed, to aid the eye in scanning the text. Readers do not need technical skills or expensive and fragile devices to access them. Traditional printed books are here to stay!
Over time – and as technology improves – some of these differences will be eroded.
Educating Through Video
Educating Through Video
Video streaming technology by websites has ballooned significantly. Websites designed by amateurs and those people who have their own blog sites are starting to use videos. Video streaming is starting to grow. You might want to grow with it.
Many people from developing countries and the third-world who want to get updated or advanced education from industrialized nations are having a hard time, because of immigration or visa requirements.
Travel The Pearl Of India: Discover Hyderabad
Travel The Pearl Of India: Discover Hyderabad
Representative nicknames like the City of Pearls and Cyberabad demonstrate the truly remarkable parallel cultures that have made Hyderabad both a city of culture and a center for information technology. Hyderabad’s landscape is also graced with numerous lakes and fantastically designed industrial parks. Airfare to Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, is convenient, particularly for travelers wishing to explore the surrounding areas.
Hyderabad is centrally located in the southern region of the Indian subcontinent. At one time an independent entity, the city had been incorporated into greater India after a lengthy British rule.
Horse Breeds – Thoroughbreds
Horse Breeds - Thoroughbreds
Thoroughbreds are known as “America’s Racing Horse”. This breed of horse runs at the race track every single day around the world.
History of the Thoroughbred:
This breed of horse was originally bred in England due to the English horsemen’s desire to have a fast race horse. There are three that founded this bloodline which are: Byerley Turk, Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, named after their respective owners, Thomas Darley, Lord Godolphin and Captain Robert Byerley. All of these stallions were imported to England from the Mediterranean Middle East between 1670 and 1710.