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The Windows Phone 7 and publishing. Everyone who has seen and tried the Windows Phone 7 hands on will agree that the typography is absolutely stunning on the new phone. If Microsoft bring out a tablet using the Windows Phone 7 OS and interface then Apple will have a very strong competitor to tis iPad and especially its iBooks app. Because reading on the Windows Phone 7 OS is going to be brilliant and and absolutely stunning.

The windows phone 7 is going to be relesed in the UK in 10 days (can’t wait!!) and in the US in about 3 weeks (Hahaha).

Are you going to get yourself a Windows Phone 7?

Will printed books be out of fashion? I don’t think so. Never. Although it may be cool and awesome to have full books on a tablet computer such as the iPad – Printed books will never go out of fashion. Sooner or later, people will realise that reading on an iPad will damage a person’s eyesight and may even make them weaker mentally (due to looking at a screen closely continuously without blinking much).

Although every now and then might not harm you but people can’t resist too much.

Because of these few reasons I think printed books will not go out of fashion.

Is the time of publishing books coming to an end? Why do I say this? With the release of the iPad and soon the Google tablet and a variety of others like the Amazon Kindle, more and more people are going towards reading book and novals on their tablet pc’s and gadgets. This has less more and more people buy less and less books for a wide variety of reasons which I won’t go into as a simple Google or Bing search will reveal all this info on a thousand websites written by ten thousand authors!

So, do you own a reading device?

Is it worth publishing a book from scratch? What do I mean by this? Should you go to try and publish a book when you have no recognition what so ever? The answer to this is no. You will fail and fail really bad which will break your morale to ever try and publish a book again.

The way to do this is to get some recognition first by doing something online or getting in touch with some publishers or even better getting in touch with authors.

The main thing to remember is that to make some good money from writing a book isn’t easy and not worth the trouble.

You might not realise but publishing a book in this day and age has become far more easier than it was say 20 years back whene you had to approach the large publishing companies with a perfect proposal, presentation, meeting, plan etc. to persuade them to take on your project.

These days, you can create your book on the computer yourself using a package such as Adobe InDesign and approach any printing company to print your book and sell them online!

Once you get a little popular, then a lot of larger publishing companies will approach you! Yes, you. Not you approching them!

With so many article submission websites, it’s possible to get your article famous on web. When you write and publish article on such websites , do consider following points:

• Try to make your article interesting by giving it a unique heading.
• Controversial writings can pull lot of views and by doing so you might even get huge list of comments linking back to your article. Try to raise points that you won’t otherwise and make people share their views
• Try to write it in points as that will make it easier to be read.
• An article written about current topics would get lot of views and is a good way to gather and share knowledge.

ePublishing also called as Electronic publishing includes digital publishing of articles, e-books, digital library and online catalogues. When you are in university , you are given athens login to access articles researched and published by top writers. It’s a fast way to reach a mass amount of readers. Many other article writing websites, for example – ezinearticles, isonare, etc provides a platform to publish your articles online. In order to do so, you need to create account in these websites, write article and publish it. Of course, it has to be approved through administrator first. Once your article is published, you can log in from time to time to see stats ( number of people who read your article).

If you are a  writer and publish books, why don’t you try to do it online. With  tools like nitropdf , you can convert word documents to PDF and place it for download on your website. You can create application for people to download and hence they can read it on their iPad or iPhones. If you write articles, then you can publish it on many article websites. There are many tools available for submitting your articles to article websites. Once you publish your article, tweet it and share it with people to get more readers. Online publishing is proving to be very time effective as you have full control over tools you wish to use.

Forums can be seen as extensive tool for research. On Forums, you can find everything and anything but it’s always useful to publish on forums related to what you are writing. For example, If you want to share your views on Soccer, it’s better to get registered on a Soccer forum, start your own topic or comment on others. This way you will get responses from like minded people who are actively looking to share and read information on Soccer theme.

If you raise a controversial topic, you would probably find people criticizing or appreciating your views and this might lead to a fruit-bowl of knowledge. Not only you will get knowledge out of Forums but if you have no knowledge about a topic, you might help yourself by finding valuable information on Forums.

With so many articles and article websites, people tend to skim over text. In order to make your article interesting you should:

• Try  and write something unique that users don’t know and make it as interesting as possible.
• If you want to lead people to a particular website ( or your website ) to make them buy products / services , then offer them some incentives in doing so. Everyone loves Free word and if you do have something free, then don’t hesitate to share it.
• Try writing in points and don’t number it. You don’t want users to give attention to only first point. By doing so gives wrong impression and people start weighing things their own way.