Yesterday Amazon announced that for every 100 hardcover books sold they sold 143 Kindle versions of the same titles. This is the tipping point for the publishing industry and they are not going to like it. Just as iPod/iTunes killed the CD business (and record stores), eBooks are the end of dead tree print books [...]

I recently registered www.24PageCookbooks.com after realizing that a 24 page cookbook could work and that there may very well be a demand for them, if they are packaged right. We know these things are going to get more and more integrated with web services and this interactivity got me thinking. For example, what if each [...]

No employees.
No offices.
No tangible product or inventory.
No infrastructure.
No payment system.
No overhead.
Infinitely scalable.
Highly profitable.
Sounds like a fantasy doesn’t it? Well, it is our fantasy. You’ll note that it doesn’t say No Work. There is work but it is work for the founders and it can be done anywhere. The goods are virtual but the money is [...]

As we get ready to move out of beta for 24PageBooks, we’re already having an epiphany regarding the potential of our brief eBooks on business and lifestyles issues. This came from an accidental exchange with a friend who owns a successful business. She shared some info I sent her with her CTO who, being a [...]

As we try to get our first half dozen titles out there it is increasingly apparent that the publishing business is a total mess. Apple, Amazon Kindle, B&N’s Nook and the many other readers out there all have differing requirements for formatting eBooks. Though many use the ePub ’standard’, it is an open standard so [...]

Actually over one million of them. I am referring of course to the iPad which has recently killed the HP Slate and the (vaporware) MS Courier tablets, both of which have been discontinued. It appears that what really got killed was Microsoft Windows as a tablet operating system. This is just the first volley in [...]

As we approach the publishing of our first 24PageBooks title, I’ve had feedback from many people regarding our pricing decisions ($9.99+any applicable taxes). Most have been positive once people think through the value proposition. The 24PageBooks concept is simple: Instant Expertise on a specific topic, usually in an hour or less. So that first title, [...]

I was in a library the other day and, while browsing through the new non-fiction titles I came across this astounding title: GPS For Dummies. This is a 408 page book about global positioning systems. It is not, apparently, a highly technical book for engineers- I doubt they would read a book with ‘Dummies’ in [...]

I stopped blogging a few months ago because my life started to change for the better, workwise. I’ve been doing the pundit thing here but like many blogging pundits it doesn’t really mean anything. I sat down and made a list of all my projects and potential projects and pared them down to two things: [...]

(BTW, I totally made this up)
Apple will unveil an entirely new electronic book format next week and will provide the development tools free of charge to any publisher. Called iBooks, the software enables publishers to create interactive titles incorporating video, audio, color images and more. Books created in the format will be published exclusively via [...]