Announcement

ePublishingDaily.com is going on hiatus … for a short while!

Yep … sorry to do this to you folks but I have to put this blog on the back-burner for three months.

Friends and collegues would know that I have recently landed a consulting role at an up-and-coming web 2.0-type company. It was a 3-6 month copywriting and technical writing position that was initially slated to be a 4 hour, 3 days a week thing (time enough to still run this blog).

But … things change.

The contract has been expanded (7-10 hours a day, 6 days a week for 13 weeks) and it was something I just couldn’t refuse - frankly, this will set me up for the next 12-18 months to really ramp up my own online business … full time.

Because of this, I just couldn’t do justice to ePublishingDaily.com - damn it! Just never enough hours in the day, huh! :-)

So … keep my rss feed in your reader because I’ll be back…

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The Carnival of Entrepreneurship #5

Welcome to Week 5 of the Carnival of Entrepreneurship. Originally slotted in at HomeOfficeVoice I’ve since said bye-bye to that blog and moved on to where you are right now - ePublishingDaily.com - so lets get the ball rolling.

I recieved more than enough submissions so it was a tough choice picking out what I thought were the best seven. So, Enjoy!

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David Daniels, hailing from Toronto, Canada offers up If Customers Aren’t the Enemy, Then Who is? Take a guess at who really is the enemy and what to do about it!

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I’m a big believer in PMA (postive mental attitude) and using audio products as a motivator for both personal and business performance (think: Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins and Wayne Dyer), so Jim Rohrbach’s You Become What You Listen To … was one post that caught my attention immediately.

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Press Releases if done properly can be the best sort of publicity for your enterprise. But Jim Logan writes about one night of reading press releases (why would you do that!!!) and it made him think: The Problem With Press Releases And Most Corporate Communications.

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Steve Pavlina is a guy many people admire on the Internet … and none more so than by me. His personal development articles are a must read for every entrepreneur. Simply titled Time Management, make yourself a coffee or three, sit back and read.

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Yaro Starak is a fellow Aussie who writes both Entrepreneurs Journey and his newly accquired Small Business Branding blogs. In his post, Joint Ventures Are The Way To Go, Yaro offers up a case study on how joint ventures might just be the best marketing vehicle for your enterprise.

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Some guy called Scott Allen … heck, he’s the guy that came up with this Carnival idea. In The Price of Money Scott discusses the pros and cons of venture capital against bank loans and ends up talking about how it’s not all that hard to go public (ie: IPO). Great food for thought when thinking of financing your venture.

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B5media blogger, Liz Strauss makes the formal introductions: “Business, meet Blogs … Blogs, meet Business … shake hands and get into niche-brand marketing” with her post Business, Blogs, and Niche-Brand Marketing

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And there you go folks, 7 posts for entrepreneurs that caught my attention.

Next week’s carnival is being hosted by Business & Technology Reinvention - click for more details

BTW, have I mentioned my new blog ePublishingDaily.com? No, okay … well it’s basically all about eBooks - how to create them and how to sell them. Having journalism in my veins I also cover the eBook industry. My main audience is you, the blogger looking at monetizing their blogging efforts via eProducts … thanks for listening!

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How Do You Read Your eBooks?

When I first started thinking about setting up ePublishingDaily.com - during the silly season - I went through the whole research phase that every startup goes through.

I outlayed some hard-earned money (not everything’s for free on the Web) to conduct various surveys and focus groups on the eBook industry to help me get a clear picture.

One of the questions was: How do you Read your eBooks?

Computer Monitor: 63%
Laptop: 19%
PDA: 8%
TabletPC: 7%
eBook reader: 3%

The survey size was 496.

A few thoughts:
I was surprised by the low number of eBooks read on PDAs.

What didn’t surprise me was that the vast majority read their eBooks on their computers.

I wonder with all these new eBook readers being released this year what the results will show in 12 months time?

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