Janette Toral shares latest developments in life as a book author and publisher.
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A year after the book Blogging from Home was launched, I decided to post a copy of its content online. This includes 2 podcast and 9 demonstration videos to complement it.
I think a book sales cycle is 1 year maximum. Afterwards, especially for non-fiction, the book is no longer a hot item unless it becomes a requirement for schools. However, as technology evolves so fast, a lot of things can also change in a short span of time.
Information wants to be free
In my opinion, a learning material loses its value if it is only shared to a few. This is also the reason I’m happy to discover Scribd as a method in sharing published works online without necessarily giving it away.
Posting the book online was already in my calendar since last month. After reading Chris Anderson’s book FREE, got the final push to do so.
This is also an experiment and will be observing if posting the book, videos, and podcast online can trigger opportunities. Will see.
One site that I have been looking at lately is Scridb. This allows publishers to post their work online for the world to see. I’m currently exploring this as a possible medium to publish my works in the future depending on how things will turn out.
As a trial, I uploaded our first DigitalFilipino StatsReport that was released last June 2002 - the Filipino Online Shopper Report.
DigitalFilipino Stats Report - Filipino Online Shopper (1st Issue)
Last November 24, I just made an announcement about my upcoming book as part of the E-Commerce Series I mentioned earlier. This is the Internet User’s Guide to E-Commerce Policies.
Target release date is February 2009. (I had to admit though that if I’ll be able to do this fast enough, pouring all heart and love, 2 to 3 books in the series shall be released all at the same time.)
Each chapter will have a mind map and a guide per page explaining the details of the policy.
The book will have 18 chapters. Here is a mind map overview of the content.
(click on the image above to view the full size)
The outline of the “Internet User’s Guide to E-Commerce Policies” shall be as follows:
More info:
My next book project will be the most ambitious to date. This is to update my e-commerce book but split them into a series to ensure ample coverage.
My priority topics will be in the area of search engine optimization, e-marketing, social networks, e-payments, and make money online.
I know that this project will be tough. But I guess that is the only way that I can set my offerings apart from the rest.
Additional topic suggestions and your insight will be more than welcome.
Two weeks ago, I just released the book Blogging from Home. For this blog post, I’d like to reflect on where I did well and the areas that I’m still working on to date.
I have additional activities in mind to further propagate the book and will post them here once executed.
I’ve decided a few days ago that I shall be focusing my time hereon in publishing books and research reports. I gather a lot of information and experiences online.
This gets shared through my columns and blogs. However, compiling them in a book will certainly make it easier to disseminate these information.
This coming August 13 to 15, I’ll be launching my 4th book, Blogging from Home, during the 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit. If you have time, you can visit our booth anytime at the event to check out our book.
The book’s regular price is ten dollars (US$10). But you can avail of its launch price of eight dollars (US$8), plus three dollars (US$3) shipping within the Philippines, should you purchase on or before August 15.
This book is designed for aspiring bloggers and newbies who wants to have a perspective on how starting, managing, promoting, and even profiting from a blog takes place. As you may well know, my blogs are mostly simple ones created with various free blogging services. With that, there’s nothing really rocket science with what I do in blogging and have documented them extensively in the book.
This book should have been easy to do, I thought. Yet it took more than a year to finish its manuscript. With so many blogging books out there, I struggled in figuring out my niche. There was even a point of frustration that made me want to cancel this project.
However, I’m glad to have found my voice that allowed the writing and editing of the manuscript done in two weeks.
I’m thankful to have a good friend, Tony Bucu, who handled all of my book layout requirements since I started. He is a rare gem indeed. His current endeavors in entering the music scene is very challenging and hope you folks can check out and buy his work.
I hope you can drop by this August 13 to 15 and look forward in catching up with you.
Hello everyone. The Internet and Mobile Marketing Association of the Philippines (IMMAP) is organizing It’s All Geek to Me! The 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2008 to be held at Hotel Intercontinental, Ayala Avenue, Makati City on August 13 to 15, 2008.
IMMAP is giving away two (2) delegates pass to this event.
Should you like to participate and win one of the passes, this is what you have to do:
1. Make a blog entry about It’s All Geek to Me! The 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2008 and cite why you like to attend this three-day event.
2. Your blog post must have a link to the following:
3. Post a comment to this blog entry and give me the url link where your post can be found.
Deadline for submission of entries is on July 24, 2008. We will post all entries received here and update this weekly.
IMMAP shall review the submissions and picked their most-liked post.
The winners of the delegate pass shall be announced here on July 31. I hope you can join and see you at It’s All Geek to Me! The 2nd Internet and Mobile Marketing Summit 2008
Hello everyone. I’ve decided to come up with a part 2 of my writing project identifying new and emerging blogs that are making an impact to its readers in 2008. These are blogs that
started anytime from July 1, 2007 to the present. They are gradually
gaining a considerable amount of readership and influence.
This writing project will not be possible without the support of sponsors such as PRC Board Exam Results, RegaloService.com, and Fil-Am Yellow Pages.
Who can join?
I encourage you to join and yes your favorite Friendster friends blog can be included in your entry. Cheers!
For more information, visit the Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs writing project page.
A few days ago, my daughter, "J3", informed me that she has an impostor in Friendster.
I’ve been warning J3 of her excessive Friendster - ing. She just love this community as she has so many friends in it. Due to her young age and of the people she met, it can’t be helped that "girl politics" also comes into play.
Then this, a person created a Friendster profile using her identity, re-posted all her pictures and put vulgar sexual insinuation remarks in it. As a parent, this was horrifying.
Through this experience, I was able to put to test how Friendster handles complains:
I was already thinking of taking a legal action if the profile has not been put down in order to find out the identity of the person who did it and make them accountable for it. I’m glad that I did not have to reach that point.
Evaluation of Friendster support
The fact that the profile was deleted was a great relief to me. I think they also need to have more support people working for them in order to improve the response time. The lack of response after using the "report this profile" was very disappointing.
So to prevent what happened to J3 from recurring again, I gave a list of do’s and don’ts or else Friendster will be blocked from our home PC.
