Some interesting book data from Smashwords

Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, is good at looking at trends in the publishing (and epublishing) world.  He speaks at important conferences on the subject.  He is a champion of indie publishing, and not surprisingly, since Smashwords is founded on the demand for distribution of indie published ebooks.  But I like the way he drills […]

A Facebook Advert

Last night on UK tv there was a very interesting documentary on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook.  I was particularly interested in the rationale behind Facebook, and the privacy versus advertising issues.  If you  Like a product, then the product owner can use that link (automatically) to send an advert to the pages of all your […]

What I learnt in April

This post summarises a lot of thoughts in April, as I didnt want to interfere with the A to Z Challenge. It was a busy month – the Challenge itself, the promotion to visitors to the site who in turn increased my number of followers (hi, follower!), the last free promotion of the second book […]