With May being National Book Month, now is the perfect time for all business professionals to examine the benefits a book can have on their career. Unfortunately, many executives shy away from writing a book, because they view it as a daunting task that requires hours, days, and even months to accomplish. Then, after their book is written, they have to face the challenge of promoting and marketing their creation. As such, many executives ask themselves: “Is it worth the time and effort? Can writing a book really help build a career or promote a business?” The answer is yes. That’s why all professionals must think of writing a book as a business investment. When used to market a particular field or profession, a well-written book can generate public interest in their work.

According to business writing expert and author, Dawn Josephson, “A book is an effective marketing tool that builds credibility, attracts business prospects, and increases customer knowledge on a field.” And no matter what industry a person works in, a book has a positive impact on the person’s future. For example, a company CEO could write a book about leadership and use the book to generate additional publicity for the firm. Or, a doctor could write a book to educate the public about certain medical procedures he or she specializes in and encourage people to seek his or her care. Or, a professional speaker could use a book as a calling card for meeting planners and schedule more speaking engagements as a result. The trick is to first write the book and then get it into the hands of the readers.

Josephson’s latest book, Putting It On Paper: The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books (Ground Rules Press, $ 19.95, ISBN 0-9744966-1-8) helps authors maximize their media exposure and generate public interest in their field through book promotion. With useable examples and experience-based insight, she walks authors through the steps of assembling an impressive media kit that takes their book sales and business marketing to the next level. Josephson helps these professionals maximize the return on their book writing investment.

“The bottom line is that the more awareness a person can generate about their business or profession, the more customers they’ll attract,” says Josephson, “And the more customers they have, the higher their profits will soar.”

Dawn Josephson is President and founder of Cameo Publications, an editorial and publishing services firm. She helps professional speakers, business leaders, and authors transform their ideas into written works that promote their businesses, solidify their credibility, and give them a competitive edge in the marketplace.

For more information or a review copy of Putting It On Paper: The Ground Rules for Creating Promotional Pieces that Sell Books, please call 1-866-372-2636 or send an e-mail to marketing@cameopublications.com.

Words You Want, a respected writing firm serving the US and the world, has today announced the availability eBooks to go. Professionally written and designed, these eBooks allow anyone who has wanted to start selling eBooks and take advantage of this blossoming industry to do so quickly and without hassle.

eBook writing has become one of the most in-demand services in the modern world. As the number of print books published annually continues to fall rapidly, eBooks are becoming a powerful force and one of the most profitable niches. However, eBook writing takes time, which is not always something that buyers can afford. Words You Want provides a way around this problem, ensuring that sellers are able to have an eBook written by a professional eBook writer up for sale without any hassle or headaches.

While the offer of pre-written eBooks and other written content is not new, Words You Want offers something truly unique. Usually, any pre-written content is PLR content. That means while a customer might purchase articles or eBooks and is free to use them as they see fit, the identical product can be found elsewhere. Obviously, this is not a good solution for those who want to establish themselves as an expert or those who require original content that cannot be found elsewhere.

Words You Want offers eBooks to go that are not PLR content ? each eBook is sold only once. Upon sale completion, the purchaser owns the full copyright to the eBook in question, which means there is never any fear that the same content will be found for sale elsewhere on the Internet. This immediately helps to increase ROI.

In addition, all eBooks to go include far more than simply the text of the book. Each eBook is fully formatted by an expert eBook writer and includes a professionally designed cover, a 3D cover ideal for use on websites and a high-quality sales letter, as well. Finally, all eBooks to go offered by Words You Want also come with 10 professionally written articles submitted to 5 of the world?s top article directories to boost visibility and organic search rankings.

To see the selection of eBooks to go offered by Words You Want or to peruse the other professional writing services provided, visit the company at http://www.WordsYouWant.com.

About Words You Want: Founded by Troy and Valerie Mellema, a husband and wife team, Words You Want was born September 2006. Located in Yantis, Texas, Words You Want was developed from the customer service expertise of Troy and the love of writing from Valerie. Together they have worked to form a writing and SEO company that is focused on the needs of the client.

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A group of local book authors has donated their time and wisdom to launch BookProposalWriting.com, a new website to help aspiring authors write a book proposal and land a book publishing contract for a six-figure advance.

The book publishing industry holds a closely-guarded secret to getting published by a major book publisher — the secret is writing a persuasive book proposal. Writing a successful book proposal allows book authors to earn a five or six-figure advance before they even start writing their manuscripts.

According to Brian Scott, the site’s creator, “Many aspiring authors have never heard about a book proposal or how to use one to land a book publishing contract. Instead, these aspiring authors spend several months writing their books, and then grow old shopping their entire manuscripts around to busy book publishers and literary agents. It’s no wonder why many aspiring authors become frustrated and give up. This way does not work today.”

To educate aspiring authors about using a book proposal, BookProposalWriting.com offers a free online “Book Proposal Writing Workshop,” which teaches writers and book authors how to write a book proposal in seven days or less. The Workshop covers important topics such as: “Why write a book proposal first?,” “How to generate ideas to write your book proposal,” “How to write your book’s blurb for your book proposal,” and “How to write your book proposal query letter.” At the end of the Workshop, aspiring book authors can download a free sample book proposal and use it as a working template for their own work-in-progress proposals.

Besides offering a free book proposal workshop, BookProposalWriting.com offers many free how-to articles and audio articles on writing, designing and selling a book, as well as many instructional videos showing step-by-step how to write different components of a book proposal.

BookProposalWriting.com also offers several free downloadable products covering book writing, book marketing, and self-publishing. A few of the website’s products include: “Hot Topics in Book Writing,” “How to Get a Literary Agent,” “Sit Down and Write that Bestselling Novel,” and “Copyright Protection for Book Authors.”

BookProposalWriting.com is not just for authors who want to publish their books the traditional way, but also for self-publishers and independent e-book authors. “Even if you decide to self-publish or write a book as an e-book or a mobile digital book, you should know how to write a book proposal,” said Scott. “If your self-published book becomes a big success, you may want to pitch your book (or book ideas) to a major book publisher or film agent to reap in the financial rewards.”

Visit Book Proposal Writing and let professionals teach you how to write a book proposal and sell your book idea for a six-figure advance.

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Pandora Books are pleased to announce their recent collaboration with READ International, the student led book project charity.

Founded in 2004, READ International have established themselves as a national network of student volunteer led book donation projects, based at over 45 British universities. The charity arranges free book collections from UK schools, and once collected these books are sorted and those that meet the criteria and match relevant syllabuses are redistributed to schools in East Africa. READ International also utilise those books that are unsuitable by either recycling the books to generate funds or reselling them.

Since their first shipment of books in 2005, READ International have shipped a total of 850,000 books to East Africa and by the end of this year will ship their millionth book!

As a supplier of books to Britain?s schools for over 20 years, Pandora Books have been committed to developing the literacy skills of children and teenagers through their book collections for schools program. With working alongside READ International and providing books for their book distribution programme to secondary schools, Pandora Books have the ability to deliver their commitment to developing literacy both at home and now overseas, and to those who may have previously been denied this opportunity.

Alongside developing literacy skills, both Pandora and READ International share another common goal in their keenness to educate young people about global citizenship and sustainability. Pandora Books produce book collections that promote the importance of both, while separately READ International deliver free workshop programmes to both educate and raise awareness.

For both Pandora Books and READ International, it is clear that their new partnership will be one of great success as Hannah Mitchell, Director of READ International comments ?We are delighted to receive a donation from Pandora Books. These school books provide a perfect accompaniment to our suite of donated text books and help to promote a reading culture in Tanzania and Uganda. We are working to increase young people?s literacy rates in East Africa, whilst at the same time empowering young people to become active volunteers and world change makers. We look forward to continuing to work closely with Pandora Books in the future to ensure more young people in East Africa are able to access the right resources to support their education?

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American Reading Company began its partnership with the AMETEK Foundation a decade ago, when the Foundation, which serves as the charitable arm of AMETEK, Inc., decided to bring the 100 Book Challenge reading program to the Binghamton City School District in New York. In addition to providing books, program materials, and reading milestone awards, AMETEK also called upon employees at its nearby aerospace instruments plant to volunteer as reading coaches on a weekly basis.

Over the course of the next ten years, AMETEK expanded its sponsorship support for 100 Book Challenge to schools across Binghamton, NY; Rochester, NY; West Chicago, IL; Nesquehoning, PA; and Burlington, NC. AMETEK, a manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices, operates manufacturing plants at or near all of these communities. During the 2010-2011 school year, 3,390 students across 9 participating schools logged 472,983 hours of independent reading practice, an average of 140 hours per student.

BookLikes is proud to announce that it will launch the beta version of its website June 14 at Mini Seedcamp New York. The web-tech event is perfect for the BookLikes launch, as the site provides a virtual ?e-shelf? where users can catalog their favorite books and discover new reads.

BookLikes is dedicated to all kinds of readers; it?s easy for anyone to find a good book thanks to the site?s highly sensitive algorithm. Unlike other sites, BookLikes considers factors such as reading preferences, general book information and social activity when providing a personal recommendation. Moreover, the algorithm is constantly learning from users? behavior, allowing the site to give suggestions consistently tailored to people?s reading habits.

Users can also take advantage of the site?s strong social media component. They can show off their bookshelves on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, and they can review, discuss and share their opinions with other book geeks. BookLikes? free mobile apps allow users to get information about books and what others think of them on the go. Simply scan a book?s ISBN code with an iPhone or Android phone to find out more!

CEO David Piaskowski said that BookLikes was created in response to recent changes in the book market. E-book sales have increased significantly.

?We are witnessing an e-book revolution,? he said. ?Nowadays, the bookcase at home is not enough. In the era of e-books we need e-shelves which make it possible to put traditional printed books, e-books and audio books together. This solution also enables users to organize all their books in one place and share their reading preferences.?

Although BookLikes is currently launching in English-speaking countries, other language versions are already in progress. Within six months the service will be available in six more languages: Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Japanese and Polish.

For more information, please go to http://www.booklikes.com.

Contact details:

Joanna Grzelak

Chief Marketing Officer

mobile +48 604 282 204

mail press(at)booklikes(dot)com

Office:

Serbska 6b/3

61-696

Poznan, Poland

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Based in Minneapolis, MN, My Address Book LLC has set out to reinvent the personal address book by creating a website that allows individuals to assemble a personal online address book that will never be misplaced or need updating.

By using My Address Book LLC’s online address book, members never need to worry about updating their address book – it is done automatically. This is done by allowing each member to maintain their own contact information and allowing them to choose who they would like to share it with. Members can privately share contact information such as phone numbers, email or home addresses with friends and family. In return their friends and family will share their contact information. In a short amount of time an individual can assemble an address book of everyone they know and all they need to do is maintain their own personal contact information. Whenever a member makes a change to their address, My Address Book LLC automatically updates all the online address books of the people they are sharing their address with. If a member ever moves they only need to update their address in one place to notify everyone they know.

“The biggest problem with address books, be it traditional paper address books or computer based, is that they need constant maintenance,” said Kevin Lohmann, founder of My Address Book LLC. “By using My Address Book LLC’s online address book, members can quickly and easily assemble an address book of all the people they care about and all they will need to do is maintain their own personal address.”

With the online address book, all of an individual’s contacts can be added in just a few minutes using just their email addresses. When a user adds a friend or family member to his or her online address book, MyAddressBook.biz automatically sends a request for that person to create their own online address book. When the request is accepted, the new address is immediately added to both address books. This allows members to assemble a complete address book in a short amount of time.

My Address Book LLC will never sell or share personal information without permission from the member. “Your privacy is as important to us as it is to you,” said Lohmann. The company is offering a free basic account to new members. To sign up for a free account or to learn more about “the always available online address book”, visit http://www.MyAddressBook.biz.

About MyAddressBook.biz

After Kevin Lohmann was married, he realized that keeping an address book up-to-date is a constant task. In an attempt to solve the hassle of using an address book Lohmann created a mutually beneficial program that allows anyone with internet access to create an online address book with an automatic updating feature. My Address Book LLC was created in May of 2004 and released the following September.

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People donate over 60 million books a year to charity groups such as Friends of Libraries, and those groups in turn sell them at book sales. A recent survey reveals that not only are book lovers buying millions of those books, but fledgling entrepreneurs are building small businesses re-selling those books online.

Book Sale Finder recently conducted a comprehensive survey of charity book sale organizers and attendees (used book dealers and other book buyers). The survey results detail the many reasons for buying books at these sales. Most attendees are looking for bargain books to read or to add to their collections; established booksellers use charity book sales as the biggest source for their stock. But particularly noteworthy are the many retirees, homemakers, and part-timers who run profitable home-based book selling businesses using tools and services available online.

The survey results also provide such information as which states have the most charity book sales (in 2010 there were 7,263 sales), how much the charities receive from the sales, where book dealers sell books, the size of their stock, and their annual revenues.

Full reports are available at http://www.BookSaleFinder.com/Surveys.

ABOUT BOOK SALE FINDER –

Since 1994, BookSaleFinder.com has been telling people where to find non-profit and other used book sales, as well as used book auctions, fairs, and other book events. Currently Book Sale Finder publishes details about more than 7,000 sales held annually in the USA and Canada, and has over 20,000 weekly Sale Mail subscribers.

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Book-Club-Offers.com was launched in 2003 to guide visitors to the best book club offers available online. Now, three years later, thousands of visitors have used the site to join book clubs online. The site features all the major book clubs, Doubleday Book Club, The Literary Guild, and Smart Reader Rewards from Book of the Month Club. The various categories of book clubs include general interest and bestseller book clubs, mystery, science fiction, and romance book clubs, special interest book clubs, children?s book clubs, and audio book clubs.

?One of the major requests we got from Book-Club-Offers.com visitors,? said site designer Cory Edwards, ?was the need for a better way to compare book clubs and choose the right one.? Since the best book club is different for each person, the editors of Book-Club-Offers.com painstakingly recorded over fifteen variables of information about each club. They then selected the top three book clubs from each category to be prominently displayed at the top of the page, and listed all book clubs from the category below. Visitors are given the option to choose up to three book clubs from these lists and compare them side-by-side on six highly important variables, including price, selection, payment options, and more.

Book-Club-Offers.com also offers a comprehensive review of each book club and its current offer along with numerous articles on joining a book club. The list of frequently asked questions addresses many of the questions that the editors receive about book clubs including how they work, why they charge so little for books, and how to contact customer service for the various book club providers.

Visit Book-Club-Offers.com today to find, review, compare, and join book clubs online.

About Book-Club-Offers.com:

Book-Club-Offers.com is a website for finding, reviewing, comparing, and joining book clubs. The site features compare pages that make it easy to compare book clubs. Book club providers include BooksOnline, Scholastic, Highlights, Harlequin, Simply Audiobooks, Audible, and Jiggerbug. Related book club sites include http://www.Canada-Book-Clubs.com, a site that features Canadian book clubs, and http://uk.Book-Club-Offers.com, a site that features UK book clubs.

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Covering a span of 10 years into the war on terror since 9/11, the book presents a respectful graphic representation of the events from that day. Included are images from two administrations, specifically actual events including the demise of Bin Laden, and numerous pages explaining and engaging children with the concepts of freedom. The graphic novel coloring book measures 8.5″? wide x 11? tall with 36 pages of best quality paper available in coloring books ? making it a useful teaching and learning tool for all mediums including, crayons, markers, pencils and even paints. Created with a need and desire that demonstrates honesty, reverence, integrity, and good character the book is exciting, with a historic and an educational perspective. A PG rating is established with this book as it deals with the truth and a portion of the proceeds from this book go to charity.

Really Big Coloring Books,