Wing Tang Wong

author: Stephen Windwalker asin: B001377NBI binding: Kindle Edition list price: $1.99 USD amazon price: $1.59 USD

The Amazon Kindle publishing platform presents a tremendous opportunity for magazine publishers of all shapes and sizes to connect with motivated readers. In this comprehensive article, author Stephen Windwalker provides a helpful and richly detailed work-around for magazine publishers to bring their current and back-issue content to the Kindle platform and begin building a digital readership now, without having to wait for Amazon to open the "front door" of its "Kindle Magazines" newsstand.  read more »

author: Stephen Windwalker asin: B0010K8GYQ binding: Kindle Edition list price: $9.99 USD amazon price: $7.99 USD

A 3500-word article by Stephen Windwalker, Harvard Perspectives Press, December 2007. If you are interested in this content but don't yet have a Kindle, check out indieKindle.blogspot.com. Publishing a Kindle edition of your book or manuscript is easy, but don't waste the opportunity by being hasty. Take the time to understand and use the tips and tactics in this article to optimize your document and your Kindle product detail page for maximum search and marketing power with Kindle, Amazon, and the Web.  read more »

On The Matter of "Cruft"

For those who know me, I have a habit of building out a sizable online footprint, then after a year or so, just retract them back, save for a handful, which I migrate or rebuild. Part of this exercise is due to hosting migrations, but part of it is to clear out "cruft" that builds up on my sites.

By cruft, I mean... posts which really don't add much value to the site, for me, or for people visiting and reading the site.

However, what survives has a tendency to be improved upon, even if it seems worse off at first.

This site is a new site. :) So thankfully, it has no bar by which it is being judged.

However, my other blogging sites do have a history.. and a good deal of "cruft".  read more »