Publishing an ebook - Day 451

Just a nod to Farenheit 451 and also a self-kick-in-the-pants since I've been doing a lot of other things and have not published my ebook yet. It's done with proofreading, got a cover and I'm ready to share it on the KDP -- Kindle's ebook publishing arm.

It's called "Does This Start-up Make Me Look Fat?" It's about why women don't start more companies and how they should and how it's easy to do it. If you're a woman, please buy it. If you're a man, buy a copy for every female you know!

Madeon / Mashup

Check out this Madeon remix -- a song of songs:

RIP Steve Jobs: We Were Just Not Ready.

The news came just after dinner in Boston. The grown-ups were in the kitchen still eating, my 16-year-old son had finished first and asked to be excused. He was in the dining room on the MacBook Pro.

"Did you see this?," he called, "Steve Jobs RIP?"

"No!" I said, leaving the table and my programmer husband behind. "That can't be right, let me look."

I went to Twitter -- it was spilling across the screen like blood.

"Oh no," I said.

We were warned and we all had friends who were one or two connections away, so we knew Steve Jobs was very sick, but we just didn't want to think of a world without him.

"I figured he wasn't the kind of CEO who hands over a company easily," my husband said as he came into the dining room to join us, "in August, that news, that he was stepping down, it was almost worse."

We were just not ready to even imagine it. It's one leap of faith and imagination Steve could not help us make. He'd helped us imagine a brave new world of computing, but not this.

RIP Steve Jobs.

Steve Jobs' Design Mentor: Paul Rand

Deals! Deals! Deals!

Yes, a photo of a real paper book I saw in New Orleans at the Faulkner Bookstore. We did buy paper books there, rather like buying antiques.

I am buying most of my books in the Kindle version. They make it so easy and so cheap! If you have a Kindle, you KNOW they have the greatest deals they throw your way on a regular basis. When you think about the Kindle Fire, the "deal flow" will be amazing. It makes me wonder where Groupon will be after 2011 ... it will be interesting to watch!

We're all waiting on the Apple announcements ... more on this soon.

New Amazon Ad: Kindle Fire

Love the quotation by Voltaire -- are they paying him royalties?

Know your brand: Talbot's "Tradition Transformed"