Do you have a video on YouTube? Want to dress it up? Jump on over to Slide.com for some amazingly free tools to make your videos stand out. Plus, this is where you can find those cool “slide show” tools that places like Amazon.com uses to have their books rotate in a little circle. You’ll know what I mean when you see it, so be sure to check it out and you’ll definately be standing out from the crowd.

 

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Think there is no such thing as a free book listing? Think again! For absolutely no fee of any kind self-publishers may display their book’s cover, a blurb and a link to their own website.

Mark Landsberg, founder of http://www.selfpublishersplace.com , says, “Book lovers deal directly with authors cutting out the expensive middlemen. We have a unique sales plan and work tirelessly to help authors promote their books. Our international forum is open to all. Whether you are a writer or a reader please check out our new site and let us know what you think. We value your input.”

According to the American Booksellers Association, for the fifth consecutive month, retail sales at bookstores exceeded last year’s results. Preliminary figures recently released by the Bureau of the Census show an increase in bookstore sales in November 2007 of 7.5 percent compared to November 2006.

More good news is that the American Booksellers Association welcomed 115 new bookstores that opened for business in 2007. This was the third year in a row that the number of bookstore openings topped one hundred.

Social Bookmarking and Article Promotion with Onlywire: The Only Social Bookmarking Tool You Need
By Robert Watson, published Jul 07, 2007, Reprinted from Associated Content

AC writers need to promote their articles, and one of the most popular ways to do that is with social bookmarking tools. You might not get a good deal of pageviews directly from these tools, but you will boost the pagerank of your articles, as almost every decent social bookmarking site has a pagerank of at least 5 (some are as high as 8 or 10).

Savannah Morning News reporter Joel Weickgenant provides readers with an in-depth look at the ongoing saga of the ELEMENTAL in his story on the art and poetry book project, published both offline and on the Internet. However, true to the changing nature of journalism as impacted by computer technology, the reporter also logged a blog account of his interview with the project’s creators, the artist Luther E. Vann and this poet. To get the story behind the story please click or paste the following url: http://savannahnow.com/node/428310 .

For the original article itself, paste or click this url: http://savannahnow.com/node/428917 .