Aug

13

Become an Assessment Generator beta tester and get free assessments for a year!

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As Published & Profitable members know, I’m a great believer in online assessments, checklists, and worksheets created using Milana Leshinsky’s AssessmentGenerator. Her AssessmentGenerator makes it easy to create online assessments, such as true-false tests, multiple choice tests, and open-ended questions, without programming knowledge. You can preview the types of worksheets I’ve created here.
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Jul

14

Chuck Frey’s Mindmapping Resource Center offers 1-stop access to products, tips, user surveys, and more

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Chuck Frey’s Innovation Tools has long been respected as one of the leading commentators and sources of informed and impartial information about mind mapping software. Chuck has recently relaunched his blog and gathered together in one place a variety of product guides, reports, and newsletters which, until now, were not easily accessible in one [...]

Jun

27

June end of month group coaching and discussion call

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Friday’s upcoming event for authors
During our usual end of month coaching event, following my brief presentation of a new idea, Published & Profitable friends and members can discuss their publishing projects in a group environment. . Benefit from the experiences, insights, and perspectives of others. Learn how others have overcome, and are overcoming, [...]

Apr

25

Let Graham Van Dixhorn and Susan Kendrick show you how to Write To Your Market with back cover copy that will sell your book

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Friday’s upcoming event for authors Learn how to leverage your book’s contents into a strong and compelling back cover sales copy by attending an exclusive Published & Profitable interview with book coaches and marketing consultants Graham Van Dixhorn and Susan Kendrick, author of the Book Cover Coaching Blog and their special report, From Back Cover [...]

Apr

4

New Harper Collins publishing imprint to eliminate author advances and bookstore returns

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An article in today’s Wall Street Journal describes how a new imprint being started by Harper Colins publishing, responding to the profit crunch affecting trade publishers, will eliminate the traditional advance paid to authors at the start of a book project. In addition, bookstores will not be able to return unsold copies to the [...]

Mar

21

Wall Street Journal article points to possible merger between Borders and Barnes & Noble

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Close on the heels of a recent announcement that Borders is testing a series of “concept” stores with increased face-out displays of books, even though this requires cutting the number of different titles displayed in each store, comes an article in today’s Wall Street Journal (Friday, March 21, 2008), discussing a Borders sale to Barnes [...]