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DIY Ideas At Home: Make Best Out Of Waste [Mary L. Parker] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. DIY Ideas At Home - Make Best Out Of Waste Here in this book I am going to share with all some creative ideas on how to use old and waste material in your house. You will be amazed to know that you can make useful and creative items from those materials at your home only. I myself tried these ideas and get praised by family and friends. So

Amazon may not be a self-published author's best friend - exorbitant markups take a big bite out out of author profits.

DIY Ideas At Home - Make Best Out Of Waste Here in this book I am going to share with all some creative ideas on how to use old and waste material in your house. You will be amazed to know that you can make useful and creative items from those materials at your home only. I myself tried these ideas and get praised by family and friends

'Out of Print' Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only about six years - counting from when Amazon introduced its Kindle in 2007.

Blog entry about a study that looked at the differences between readers' experiences reading on a screen versus reading hard-copy.

A successful example of the Long Tail Theory, Oak Knoll Press, publisher of rare, out of print books, managed to increase its sales this year-despite catering to a niche audience-by focusing on what loyal customers ask for instead of what doesn't sell.

SEATTLE — A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon. Speaking Tuesday at the online retailer's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said that adding color to the Kindle's "electronic ink" display is a difficult technical challenge and that a color screen is "still a long way out."

Crowdfunding out-of-print books.

Always good to see small groups thinking outside the box and pooling their money to try something innovative.

Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

Negative customer feedback prompts a speedy response by Amazon.

Awesome company. Be sure to check out the Mirasol story. I heard about this technology from a Forbes article on the thinnest, lightest e-reader by Qualcomm. 

Barnes & Noble, the giant that put so many independent booksellers out of business, now finds itself locked in the fight of its life, with Amazon.com lurking in the background. 

Here some FREE online seminars and training sessions on various topics in publishing. They are from a year or two ago but many are still useful and relevant today. Check it out!

Features for the SimpleTouch by Nook. Competition for Amazon Touch coming out.

More disheartening news about newspapers.

Clever approach to marketing an e-book

Crowdfunded ebook operation that is just releasing it's first "unglued" edition, that is, not proprietary to any device and free to all who want to download it.  What's cool about Unglue.it is that they're attempting to raise money for specific publishing projects to compensate authors, and get their work out to anyone who can download it.  It's early and success is not guaranteed, but it's a cool idea!

Conventional wisdom says that entrepreneurs who start a Web-based business will do so with VC money. Read enough stories of Internet ventures that enjoy lucrative exits in the millions (in some cases billions) of dollars, and it's easy to assume that the only path to success is to begin by securing deals with investors who are far less interested in helping a start-up build a substantial brand as they are in realizing a return as quickly as possible. Bootstrapping simply isn't sexy anymore. But for many start-up publishers, bootstrapping is a way of life, and VC money isn't an option.