Showing posts with label E-books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label E-books. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

#Donate #eBooks for Troops

Here is a great way to support the troops! The site, Ebooks for Troops, helps people donate ebooks and ebook readers to soldiers serving overseas. Our men and women who serve give up so much just so we can sit at home in our jammies and watch TV, you know? They sacrifice for us, not just the comforts of home but their very lives.

That’s why it’s so great that Ebooks for Troops is around to help us do something really sweet, which is to bring reading materials to the troops in the form of ebooks. Here’s a blurb from their website:

The goal of E-Books for Troops is to build the nation’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to providing e-books and e-book technology to military personnel who are deployed overseas defending our country.

Source: Working Writers

Monday, March 28, 2011

The Most Secure Copy Protection for #eBooks and PDF Documents with DRM

Brisbane, Australia (PRWEB) March 25, 2011

CopySafe PDF provides the most secure solution to copy protect eBooks and PDF documents, protecting them from all methods of copy and also preventing unauthorized distribution. CopySafe PDF with DRM options enables total control over access rights with immediate effect on documents and user access, even on documents that have already been downloaded to the user's computer.

Protect PDF solutions have been around for years but because it's distributed for use in generic PDF readers like Adobe Reader, the security for passwords and expiration can easily be thwarted and the media inside can be extracted, providing a most insecure option for mission critical data. In contrast CopySafe PDF utilizes it's own proprietary reader enabling stronger encryption and unique security protocols that can never be thwarted. The CopySafe PDF Reader is the only application that can open and display a CopySafe document, and unlike Adobe Reader the source code is not available to the public for hackers to study and reverse engineer, thus ensuring that your protected PDF cannot be exploited.

The free PDF Reader also uses CopySafe technology to provide protection from all methods of copy including Printscreen and screen capture software, and to prevent forwarding them onto others, the option of applying DRM can control who can open the document, who can print the document and even put a limit in how many times such access is given.

The Digital Rights Management (DRM) applied to CopySafe PDF does not rely on tokens like other DRM solutions because tokens, no mater how sophisticated, can be forged and redistributed. Instead, CopySafe uses unique technology that identifies a user's computer signature for rights assessment, which is much more secure as it cannot be exploited.

ArtistScope DRM is also unique with regard to the control that authors can have over their documents and their customer base. With tokens such privileges are preset and cannot be varied during the life of the subscription, but with ArtistScope DRM those permissions are managed remotely, enabling an author to have total control. From any computer in the world, an author can log in and modify document and user access rights for immediate effect even to documents that have already been downloaded.

With such total control an author can cancel a user's subscription, suspend their access for breach of TOS, cancel or suspend a document pending review or update, change the list of users permitted to use a document, upgrade users to new groups for their next document level and so on. The document management for DRM validation service can be purchased for use on the author's server or it can be rented as a ready-installed and hosted service from ArtistScope. Pricing for a hosted DRM Validation Service can cost as little as a few dollars per month.

All types of documents can be copy protected by first converting to PDF. A universal Document Converter (UDC) is bundled with the CopySafe PDF Protector software that runs as a printer-driver making document conversion as simple as send to print, and then selecting UDC as the printer, for a new PDF document to be saved to a nominated location.

The free CopySafe PDF Reader is available in eleven (11) popular languages that can be selected independent of a computer's default language, enabling a preferred language when working in foreign offices. Free trial software for CopySafe PDF Protector can be downloaded from the ArtistScope web site. The PDF Protector can be installed on a server and interfaced with web pages by using ArtistScope DLLs as DRM Add-ons for the encryption and conversion of documents uploaded to your web site.

ABOUT ARTISTSCOPE

ArtistScope is an artist-oriented company founded in 1997 to address the need for robust copy protection for the livelihood of artists. They know the technology, they know the customer, and they know the audience.

More information about ArtistScope Copy Protection & DRM

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

eBook Award Can Help Sell Your #eBook~Accepting entries: Now

To break out of the pack and rise above other eBooks, your MP900401037eBook needs to get read. Readers have to read it, love it, and blog someone who would love to read your ebook and recommend it to others. This is "word of mouth." Global eBook Awards are more than a "sticker:" they come with a built-in publicity machine.
To be successful, fiction has to get read.
To be successful, nonfiction has to be brought to the attention of its category audience.
The Global eBook Awards are designed to help you achieve these goals.

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Saturday, March 19, 2011

#Review: 13 Horror Stories by John McDonnell @McDonnellWrite

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Flash fiction is known by different names, sudden fiction, microfiction, micro-story, postcard fiction, but whatever name strikes your fancy John McDonnell’s 13 Horror Stories puts him in a category with masters of this genre.

Join the Beauty Queen, Billy and Uncle Hank, Nekhbet, Annabelle Lockard feel the fear…it’s so much stronger when the important fiction elements are only hinted at or implied.

“You wanted to feel fear, right?…Yes, I heard it’s the strongest emotion…”

John McDonnell believes in the power of imagination. He writes horror, sci-fi and romance. Visit John’s flash fiction blog to find out more about his stories.

Reviewed by Lynnette Phillips, Avid Book Reviews

Friday, March 18, 2011

#Review: The Adventures of Larry the Alien by John McDonnell @McDonnellWrite

The Adventures Of Larry The Alien

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Larry is an anxiety-ridden, fruity-drink-guzzling, shape-shifting alien who’s been sent to earth to monitor our species. After sending the local Mafioso to the crustaceous period as a personal favor to his friend and neighborhood bar owner, Murphy, he goes home to take up residence with same to the objections of Murphy’s wife, Dolores, and the delight of his mother-in-law, Edna.

Larry becomes fast friends with Edna, tries to be useful to Dolores and fills in at Murphy’s bar becoming a favorite with the customers.

The multi talented John McDonnell has created a perfect existence for the marooned but talented sometimes problematic Larry. He also writes horror, sci-fi and romance. Visit John’s flash fiction blog to find out more about his stories, Larry’s adventures and John’s new adventures.

Review by Lynnette Phillips, Avid Book Reviews

Monday, March 14, 2011

New Kindle Exclusive: Seven Books by World-Famous Physicist Albert Einstein #ebook

NEW YORK & SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--(NASDAQ: AMZN) — Open Road Integrated Media LLC and Amazon.com today announced that Open Road has published seven digital books by iconic physicist Albert Einstein exclusively in the Kindle Store. Open Road has added new photographs and biographical information from experts at the Hebrew University Einstein Archives, introductions written by Neil Berger and new covers to previously published print editions (a portion of which have been available digitally in the public domain) to create new Albert Einstein Archives Authorized Editions of the works. These books are available starting today for download exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore).

“These books cover everything from the Theory of Relativity to Einstein’s own letters chronicling his thoughts on life. We’re excited to make these books available for Kindle device owners and app users, and think readers will enjoy them.”

“As part of our mission to bring iconic books to E, we are proud to digitally publish the authorized ebooks of a selection of Albert Einstein's most important writings,” said Jane Friedman, CEO and Cofounder of Open Road Integrated Media LLC. “In partnership with Philosophical Library and Hebrew University, we have curated fascinating material about Einstein’s life that will both attract new readers and appeal to diehard fans. We are excited to be kicking off the launch of these classic titles with Amazon today, for what would be Einstein’s 132nd birthday.”

“Albert Einstein is one of our most important thinkers,” said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President of Kindle Content. “These books cover everything from the Theory of Relativity to Einstein’s own letters chronicling his thoughts on life. We’re excited to make these books available for Kindle device owners and app users, and think readers will enjoy them.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was born in Germany and became an American citizen in 1940. A world-famous theoretical physicist, he was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics and is renowned for his Theory of Relativity. In addition to his scientific work, Einstein was an influential humanist who spoke widely about politics, ethics and social causes. After leaving Europe, Einstein taught at Princeton University. His theories were instrumental in shaping the Atomic Age.

This selection of Einstein books was designed for readers interested in Einstein’s seminal works in physics, his collaborations with colleagues, and his broader philosophy. The seven digital works that will be exclusive to the Kindle Store are:

  • “Essays in Humanism”: An inspiring collection of the great thinker’s views on a rapidly changing world;
  • “Essays in Science”: An homage to the men and women of science, and an exposition of Einstein’s place in scientific history;
  • “Letters on Wave Mechanics: Correspondence with H. A. Lorentz, Max Planck, and Erwin Schrödinger”: A lively collection of Einstein’s groundbreaking scientific correspondence on modern physics with other contemporary giants in his field: Schrödinger, Planck and Lorentz;
  • “Letters to Solovine: 1906-1955”: A provocative collection of letters to his longtime friend and translator that spans Einstein’s career and reveals the inner thoughts and daily life of a transformative genius;
  • “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”: An inspiring collection of essays in which Einstein addresses the topics that fascinated him as a scientist, philosopher and humanitarian;
  • “The Theory of Relativity and Other Essays”: E=mc2: It may be Einstein’s most well-known contribution to modern science, but how many people understand the thought process or physics behind this famous equation?
  • “The World As I See It”: A fascinating collection of Einstein’s observations about life, religion, nationalism, and a host of personal topics that engaged the genius’s intellect.

Open Road has digitally published these titles as part of its ongoing publishing partnership with Philosophical Library.

Like all Kindle books, Einstein’s books are "Buy Once, Read Everywhere"—Kindle customers can purchase them and read them on the $139 third-generation Kindle device with new high-contrast Pearl e-Ink, as well as on iPads, iPod touches, iPhones, Macs, PCs, BlackBerrys, Windows Phones and Android-based devices. Amazon's Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

About Open Road Integrated Media

Open Road Integrated Media LLC (www.openroadmedia.com) is a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences. The company’s ebooks offer a 360-degree world of existing and originally produced premium content that is marketed through a new proprietary platform.

Open Road’s Author Brand Program focuses on extensive backlist catalogues, while its Publishing Partner Program is based on co-marketing of ebooks with originating publishers. Open Road publishes new titles that are “born digital” in the company's E-riginals program.

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Saturday, March 12, 2011

#Review: The Lost Coast -- A Larison Short Story by Barry Eisler

Larison is a man haunted, a man with a secret trying to stay unnoticed, unacknowledged, unidentified. Ten days north of Los Angeles he finds himself traveling Route 101 and in the sleepy college town of Arcata. Why not chance a quiet night out?

By Lynnette Phillips, Avid Book Reviews

Sunday, February 27, 2011

A Call From the Dark #kindle $.99 #YA–What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a movie rental store at ten o’clock at night?

41K7Viz2urL._SL160_What would you do if you found yourself trapped in a movie rental store at ten o’clock at night? Just you and a one prank-calling psycho right out of a B-Grade horror movie.
Fifteen-year-old Stacey has just started working part-time in the Video Saloon, a run down, cruddy old video store. She needs the money, as her widowed father is finding it increasingly difficult to cope at home and work.
She also finds herself involved in a pirated DVD ring where it’s easy to get in, but not so easy to get out. The ring leader wants revenge, but Stacey discovers revenge can work both ways…

A Call from the Dark – Available @ Amazon for $0.99

Monday, February 21, 2011

#NewBook: The Bellwether by James W. Nelson (A Disaster Novel) #ebooks

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Walcott, ND (PRWEB) February 18, 2011. Located in a little house on the prairie in the sandhills region of the outback of eastern North Dakota, Nuclear Sundogs Publishing is a new, mostly fiction publisher of paperback books dealing with contemporary issues and current events.

Nuclear Sundogs Publishing supports one author, James W. Nelson, of Walcott, North Dakota, whose work includes three novels, two books of short stories, and his autobiography.

A fourth novel The Bellwether, a disaster novel, is free to read online (individual chapters) under SubRon7 at http://hubpages.com. At the end of each chapter is a short synopsis of the next chapter. Read the entire novel at http://free-ebooks.net, which in eleven days, has garnered 1841 downloads.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2011

Tweet This! Twitter for Business e-Book [Kindle Edition]

Tweet This! Twitter for Business e-Book
O.K. I wasn't too sure I even needed (or wanted) to read this book...but I'm glad I did.

While reading I realized I wasn't getting the full benefits Twitter has to offer. I decided to promote my blog, Avid Book Reviews, and within a couple of days I began to see results! Alright, after just a couple of days the results are subtle but they're there...really.

Even if you've been using Twitter for awhile read Section 2, "Understanding the Basics". You'll be amazed at what you've been missing. I learned to use At Replies (@), Hash Tags (#) and the search feature more effectively and slowly my number of followers started to increase. Find out about Twitter applications like SocialOomph that help you monitor and automate your tweets and the benefits of Direct Messages as opposed to @replies.

If you've got something to promote (a business, a nonprofit orgnization, a community project, whatever) make sure you read the section entitled "Acheiving Twittertopia in 30 Minutes a Day (or Less) Create a Marketing Plan".

Maybe best of all, this is a quick read. If you're like me you want to just get on with the instruction and try it and with Tweet This! Twitter for Business you can do just that!

By Lynnette Phillips, Avid Book Reviews




Friday, January 28, 2011

Updated Jan 28, 2011 Top 10 Most Popular eBooks @ free-ebooks.net

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Monday, January 10, 2011

FREE Books for E-readers - Links

Tick Tock - Free Preview: The First 28 Chapters
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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know 
Millions of people found e-readers in their Christmas stockings and they are finding thousands of books in  e-reader format to enjoy. They’re reading anywhere, at any time but they have to buy the books for the e-readers. Well, maybe not always. Here’s some places you can find free e-books in the format you’re looking for.

 1. Amazon offers over 2.5 million books for their Kindle device (Kindle apps are also available for your PC, Mac, iPhone, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android phone)
2. Gutenberg one of the original sources of free ebooks
3.
Barnes & Noble offers free NookBooks
4. The Novel Network get unlimited free Novels, Comics, Newspapers & more!

5. Free eBooks.net online source for free ebook downloads, ebook resources and ebook authors

Publishers and authors sometimes present free ebooks as a promotion such as James Patterson.

You’ll be able to find children’s and young adult books, cookbooks, self-help books, novels, fiction and non-fiction, romances…






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