The Yosemite Conservancy has switched on a live streaming webcam of Yosemite Falls.
Yosemite Falls is, arguably, one of the most beautiful tall waterfalls in California. With a fall of 2,425 feet, it is the tallest waterfall in North America.
For the live stream, click HERE.
To view all the webcam options, click HERE.
To visit the Yosemite Conservancy website, click HERE.
To support the Yosemite Conservancy, click HERE.
(live cameras by Pixelcaster).
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Stephen King’s new novel won’t be released as an ebook.
“Maybe at some point [there’ll be an ebook]” King told the WSJ, “but in the meantime, let people stir their sticks and go to an actual bookstore rather than a digital one.”
While this is interesting … I’m not buying the reasoning. Supposedly, he’s doing this to help out bookstores. Yet he’s releasing the book through the Most Hated Enemy Of Bookstores: Amazon and other e-retailers.
So the take-away for me is that Stephen King came up with a new way to market: make an announcement that people will chew through without thinking about it. Welcome to the wonderful world of press releases.
According to the Sand Diego Union Tribune, San Diego County has just released a Draft Environmental Impact Report regarding the Cleveland National Forest.
In 1993 the voters of San Diego County by a two-thirds vote endorsed and passed the Forest Conservation Initiative, which protected the forest from what the U-T called a “Death Sentence” of development.
The new Draft Environmental Impact Report seeks to replace the riparian and rangeland habitat with urban sprawl. According to the DEI, the plan’s SIGNIFICANT impact in the forest is “unavoidable” because the county must put housing in San Diego’s last remaining wilderness area. Continue reading
I’ve read a press release for a new Memphis, TN based self-publishing service with a unique ‘crowd-driven’ pricing model, and read through all of the information on their website. I have not, as yet, used this service. It sounds interesting, and it is a sales model that could be beneficial to both authors AND readers.
For authors, this may be something to look into. You initially put your book up on Screwpulp as a free book. As your books gains traction (‘as you promote your book’ and you get ‘good reviews’ is what the site says) the value of your book increases. The more popular the book becomes, the more money you’ll make.
For readers, you’ll have to give a review before you can download free books, and you can only download one free book at a time (you’re free, of course, to purchase as many books as you want at any time).
According to Digital Book World, eBooks pushed the total net book sales over $27.1 billion for 2012. eBooks were 20% of trade publishing net sales for 2012, beating the 2011 eBooks sales figure (15%) handsomely.
From the DBW article:
The BookStat report shows prices are fairly stable for trade, ebook growth has slowed but contributes significantly to book sales overall, and that both romance and YA are growth genres, according to Ned May, VP and practice leader at Outsell Inc., who presented the stats at today’s MIP event.
The complete BookStat report will be released in June, and it will show a net new dollars figure for eBooks of $995 million.
You can read the original article HERE.
