Watch The Watchers - What you will find is that a few bloggers become the de facto “aggregators” for their industry so instead of watching 50 blogs you will only need to watch the one blogger who watches the 50 blogs for you and reports back with the best stuff.

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In a New York Times article (registration required, annoyingly) - Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry’s Rules - there is some good food for thought.

The article looks at what has happened to the music industry over recent times and talks about the future of publishing - will it head in the same way.
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Lets say you have just polished up your latest publication, have pdf’d it, designed a great eCover and have crafted a nifty sales page.

Have you thought about how people are going to pay you?
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“You are not an author, a publisher, or a publicist, you are an information provider.

You must provide your knowledge in any form your buyer wants: books, reports, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs, seminars, speeches or private consulting.”

And so ends Dan Poynter’s The Self-Publishing Manunal (14th Edition), the perennial Bible of self-publishing.
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Have you noticed the pricing of so many eBooks are $47, $67, $97 and so on. Why is that?

I guess it basically comes down to how any standard becomes the … standard. As with any product or service, many price points are tried and tested and once accepted they’re pushed hard onto the consumer. It eventually builds on itself and sure enough it becomes the standard by which everybody goes by.
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I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve settled down to read or review an eBook only to come away with the one thought: Geez, that was poorly designed.
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Then PDF Online is your answer.

With a tag line of “create PDF with just 3 lines of code” this is easily one of the most simplest ways I’ve come across to create a PDF document online, for free and within minutes.
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