Business

Free Kindle Reader

We’re pretty excited about the Kindle. It’s a powerful digital book reader with a great number of features, not the least of which is you can download any of some 450,000 book and periodical titles from Amazon. The Kindle is an expensive toy for some and a wonderful learning tool for others.

Just recently Amazon announced a free software version of the Kindle reader for your PC. We’ve installed it and had a look and we’re quite impressed. It is easy to use and gets the job done without a lot of fuss. You can get your own copy HERE and start reading Kindle books today.

Selling Strategies You Can Make Use of If You Are Selling Via eBay

By Shakira N. Smith

The auction powerhouse, eBay, is one of the greatest avenue to make it big in the industry of online selling. eBay has been the top site to visit when it comes to auctions and it has remained the top site for customers who are in search for anything and everything. There are several selling strategies that you can make use of in order to attract more customers to your site or to your page. Today, we will try to cover as many selling techniques you can use, whether you are a newbie or a veteran seller.

WordPress Multi-User

This website is created using the WordPress website engine. There are two versions of WordPress available for use on your own servers. One is for a stand-alone website (like this one) and the other is for multi-user sites (see MSMOsites)

Andrea Rennick operates a WordPress website which is not only run on WordPress, it is a tutorial site for using WordPress. You can find her site here:

http://wpmututorials.com

She also offers a free e-book titled Installing WPMU, in PDF format, which you can find here:

http://wpmututorials.com/files/2008/12/installing-wpmu.pdf

Main Street Mall Online

msmo-200 Main Street Mall Online is a virtual shopping mall featuring merchandise specific malls where sellers offer their products and/or services in their own stores. It is a premium selling site with all the features of much more expensive venues however there is a single monthly flat rate for services. There are no listing fees and no sales commissions.

Amazon Kindle

After many years of false starts and fitful fluctuations in the publishing industry it looks like the time has come for a new approach to the serious distribution of professional quality e-books. There is a small number of quality contenders in the e-book reader market but it appears, at least at present, that the number one choice climbing to the top is the Kindle from Amazon (shown left).

It certainly doesn’t hurt that America’s number one online retailer is seriously in the mix. The Kindle is exclusive to Amazon and features a proprietary publishing format (AZW) and supports several others including TXT, Audible (formats 4, Audible Enhanced (AAX)), MP3, unprotected MOBI, PRC natively; and PDF, HTML, DOC, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP through conversion.

AZZ Cardfile

One of the most useful utilities I’ve found for my computer is AZZ Cardfile (http://www.azzcardfile.com/). It’s like a Rolodex, scratch pad, address book, birthday list, to-do list, and general database all in one.

The website says, “Azz Cardfile incorporates many useful tools in one piece of software: simple and powerful, totally customizable organizer software without predefined fields, Recipe Software, Contacts Database, Address Book, Rolodex, Contact Management Software, Simple Database, Organizer for Notes, References or any other items.”