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New free PDF magazine on productivity and GTD (getting things done) has just launched. You can download the first edition here. First edition includes interview with GTD guru David Allen.

It’s quite an interesting project I would say, first of all it’s going to be free. Secondly, it’s going to be PDF magazine. And thirdly, it will focus on productivity only. Let’s see how it will progress over time. I wish them Good Luck!

In their own words…

Productive Magazine (PM) is (going to be):

• a regular magazine (monthly or bi-monthly - yet to be determined)
• featuring the best articles (blog posts) from best productivity bloggers
• Downloadable in a nicely-formatted PDF format
• for FREE

URL: www.productivemagazine.com

Jay Conrad Levinson is the author of the best-selling marketing series in history, “Guerrilla Marketing,” plus 30 other books. His books have sold 14 million copies worldwide. His guerrilla concepts have influenced marketing so much that today his books appear in 41 languages and are required reading in many MBA programs worldwide.

Here is a PowerPoint presentation by Jay that contains over 90 field-tested tactics to get your business into the frontlines. download here

Normally, this book The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II written by Dave Balter who is also the author of the book called Grapevine: The New Art of Word-of-Mouth Marketing costs $45.00 at Amazon.

It’s a new book published in 2008, the interesting part is - author has decided to release the PDF version free of charge. You can download the ebook here.

I think he has done a right move. Because how many of you guys have finished the whole (100 over page) ebook (any ebook) reading from your computers? I haven’t… If I really like the book, I will rather buy the hardcopy. So, I’m sure if the book is good, the free version will actually increase its hardcopy sales.

After all, he is a word-of-mouth marketer, so he knows what’s he doing. Because surely free book like this will create a lot of buzz on the net.

Download the eBook: The Word of Mouth Manual: Volume II

As you know SitePoint had a facelift for its marketplace. In fact, it’s now called Marketplace 2.0.

In conjunction with launching their Marketplace 2.0, Sitepoint is offering a promotion. Actually if you are a frequent user of sitepoint.com’s marketplace, this is quite a nice promotion.

You get 30 Free credits + Free eBook “Flipping Web Sites For Profit” valued at $29.95 for every 100 Credits you buy for the rest of April.

Book Contents

• Site Flipping Demystified
• Buying a Site
• Adding Value
• Selling a Site
• Resources
• Site Valuation Worksheet

Popular blogger Leo Babauta has gone Open Source, he says it’s okay to steal my content now. He is allowing people to use his blog’s content in any way people like. After this, I am sure his blog posts will be popping up in many blogs throughout the internet (especially when people are out of ideas and have nothing to post about).

His ebook Zen to Done is very popular too, selling over 1,000 copies within two weeks. It’s an ebook about productivity that is created out of his blog’s content. Currently selling at $9.50. If you do not want to go through his blog’s archive, you can buy this book.

In the same post, he argues that going open source won’t hurt his PageRank and his eBook sales. As you know Google sometimes punishes for duplicate content, when people start copying his content, his blog might get punished. He also talks about other interesting issues regarding copyright, check out his post.

In my opinion, he will do just fine, I think going open source will bring only good things for him. He will get free advertising and his readership will jump many many folds in the near future (currently he has more than 36,000 RSS readers).

What’s your opinion on Leo’s move? Do you think other bloggers should follow his suit?

Caroline Middlebrook has written an ebook on WordPress. The ebook is 41 pages long, it’s especially useful for the beginners who are migrating from blogspot to their own domain name.

These are the major sections of the ebook:

Chapter 1: Getting and Installing WordPress
Chapter 2: Basic WordPress Administration. 10
Chapter 3: Installing a New Theme. 13
Chapter 4: Setting up Adsense On Your Site. 16
Chapter 5: WordPress Plugins. 20
Chapter 6: Creating Your Site Content
Chapter 7: Final Thoughts
Appendix 1: Uploading Using FTP.. 33
Appendix 2: External Resources

You can download it here.

If you have been gaining weight lately (i have), then you should read The Blogger Proof Workout, Vol. 1 that was written by Israel of FatManUnleashed.com. Israel had started his blog as the last attempt to loose weight. At the same time, he will be blogging about his progress.

It’s a seven page free ebook that has some innovative workouts that you can do right at your blogging space.

But some rules like “Received email: 5 pushups” wouldn’t work for me, because I get so much of email everyday, if I were to do 5 pushups for every email received, I would have to make mushups the rest of my life non-stop. But I guess the point is, to use your blogging environment to help you loose weight.

It’s an entertaining and funny ebook, look forward to the second volume.

When I newly started blogging I had posted about ChangeThis.com (in early 2005). But then I had only few readers, now that I have few hundred readers. I think it’s time to re-post about this wonderful idea and website. I am sure most of you will find it very useful. ChangeThis is a website that has lots of business articles (in PDF) that are free, nicely designed and without ads.

Articles are divided into Business, Technology, Culture, Politics and Other. They are written by well known authors like Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki, Tom Peters, Joel Spolsky etc. Below are some sample articles that you might find useful, see archive section for all articles.

100 Ways to Help You Succeed/Make Money - by Tom Peters In this first installment, you’ll find 50 short, wonderfully sweet nuggets of advice that you will love, love, love. Download | View Online

How To Be Creative - by Hugh MacLeod MacLeod, an advertising executive and popular blogger with a flair for the creative, gives his 26 tried-and-true tips for being truly creative. Each point illustrated by a cartoon drawn by the author himself. If you’ve ever felt the draw to do something creative but just haven’t been able to pull it together, you’ll love this manifesto. Download | View Online

25 Ways to Distinguish Yourself - by Rajesh Setty According to Setty, “being part of the commodity crowd erodes your value.” You need to rise above the crowd by following Setty’s 25 ways. Download PDF | View Online

100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down - by Michael Iva So, you’ve got an idea. A big idea. But will your idea take flight? Not if you let your concept be killed by all the usual excuses you hear from your managers, your bosses, your spouses—excuses motivated by fear or possessiveness. In this wide-ranging manifesto, Iva offers you ways to persuade someone to embrace your idea, to not be swayed by negative responses, and to utilize your creativity. Download PDF | View Online

In FAQ section, for the question “Why are you doing this?” they have answered such:

Because we’re tired of the yelling, tired of the irrational posturing, and tired of the lies. We decided to do something about all three. Our bet is that smart people will embrace being talked to with respect and will spread the word.

We have no secret plan. No ulterior motive. We wanted to see if it would work. The fact that you’re reading this sort of implies it did, at least a little.

www.ChangeThis.com

I am sure you have already heard about Amazon’s new ebook reader, called Amazon Kindle right? (see pic left)

Well, I guess Amazon wants to beef up its Kindle sales for the upcoming holidays. Because now Amazon associates (referrers) can earn 10% in affiliate sales for every Kindle sale, compared to 4% that they normally get for other Amazon products. Ten percent translates to $39.99.

Associates are eligible to earn 10% in referral fees on both the Kindle device and content. With Kindle priced at $399 you can earn $39.99 on each Kindle purchase you refer. We do not yet pay referral fees on subscription content such as Kindle newspapers, blogs, or magazines, but we will be announcing that support in the near future.

There are close to 900 people who have left reviews for Kindle at Amazon’s website. The current rate stands at 3 stars, which is considered quite low. Some of the complains were the price, people complained that it was priced too high. That it didn’t support PDF, Word and other document formats. And some complained about the design, that it was not that nice looking.

Some people have suggested that Sony’s eBook Reader was a better option, since it is cheaper by $100 and supports PDF, TXT, RTF, and Microsoft® Word files. It also plays MP3 and AAC files.

Currently Amazon is out of stock for this Sony eBook reader. But if you want, you can always purchase it from Sony.com though.

Conclusion

So, I would say Kindle is a good candidate for making money for this holiday season. Because $39.99 per sale is a good money. But if you want to buy eBook reader for yourself, then have a look at other ebook readers from other manufacturers. I personally think ebook reader should be able to read at least PDF files.

www.amazon.com/kindle

You can now subscribe to the digital editions of Microsoft MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobb’s Journal for free. MSDN is primarily for programmers who are using Microsoft technologies while the Dr Dobb’s covers almost all languages and platforms.

Just login here using your Windows Live ID to subscribe to MSDN Magazine and Dr. Dobbs Journal Digital editions.

Read sample MSDN Magazine Sep 2007 issue here.

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