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Our number one search term over the last year has been the “cost of coverboard”. I did a search to see what coverboard was and while I wasn’t able to find out for sure, I was able to gather that it has something to do with book binding in the age old publishing business, of which we are in – albeit a digital one.

Whether it’s coverboard or “cover board”, the cost is most certainly higher than printing online, but because the barrier to entry is so low, there is much competition. However, much competition belies much good content, but while it is true that volume of publications have gone up due to the success of blogs and the like, the number of good or quality publications has only gone up slightly. It is true that certain individuals with talent that were previously denied a voice have now found their outlet online, but the majority of writers are not any better just for having been published.

Ed Dale wrote on his Facebook Page, “Self Publishing Superstars – It warms my little cottontails,” about the link, Meet The A-List Authors Of E-Book Self Publishing. The gist is that authors who self-published their books have traditionally done it out of desperation as a result of being ignored or rejected by publishing houses. Traditionally without the marketing muscle of a publishing house, most of those self-published books were doomed commercially, but the world of self-publishing is changing fast in the digital era. A growing number of authors are making a nice living selling their own e-books, often at $0.99 a pop.

So now it’s not just the Internet and blogs. E-readers are changing the publishing landscape too, but at least e-reading devices put the printed word back in your hand, and once it’s in your hand, you’ll need a cover, which may just include a little coverboard inside.

Read Pads, our reading pads web site, has changed its focus to covering tablet pc pads. There are many different types of tablet PCs as covered on our tablet comparison web site, but Read Pad PCs focuses on tablet PCs that are specifically called ‘pads’, which include the Android aPad/ePad, Apple iPad, ASUS Eee Pad, Lenovo IdeaPad, and the ViewSonic vPad.  Read Pads covers the pad PCs themselves and their corresponding accessories, cases, and covers which help protect the increasingly popular tablet PC devices.

Cost Publishing Editor and Watershawl, Inc. CEO, Erich Stauffer had good things to say about the site stating, “I believe this site has the potential to be really helpful for those people who are looking to find tablet PC pads and the accessories to go with them.” He continued by saying, “Sites like Amazon.com are not organized as well as they can be and that’s where we come in. We help organize things you can find at Amazon.com in a way that you as a consumer might browse for them – not how Amazon.com organizes them.”

This has been a busy month. We’ve been developing a new WordPress theme for use with all of our sites and it’s working really well. Let’s cover the sites recently converted to the new theme this past month.

Managing Actions was converted from a management consulting business to a web site about management consulting.  The SDN continues to create fake news and has just recently started posting about individual topics versus news-bytes from its newsletter. eAccessories has had a lot of success this past Christmas season promoting ereader accessories along with Nook Share, which promotes nook covers.  Mobile Devices continues to cover – yep you guessed it – mobile devices, but now with the new, refreshed theme. Suzanne has began writing again on her popular motivated moms blog, And They Lived Happily Ever After, which also has a new, albeit different, theme.  An Entrepreneurial Mind continues to add new posts and insights into what Erich is working on, dovetailing with eRich Online, which covers how to make money online. Learning Sets is a brand new site, but is already doing well, helping parents and teachers find educational science kits and toys for kids.  Lost Post, a blog about ABC’s LOST and pop culture in general, was also converted.  Query String, a web site that helps programmers find Google Map query string arguments, was also converted. Digitions, a blog about digital editions of books, magazines, and newspapers, has also been converted.  Geek Hand, which we wrote about in July when it was introduced, has also been converted and will soon be covering board game tournaments. Another one of our new blogs, C’outure, is now promoting high fashion clothes and accessories. Ether Fleet, formerly a network consulting service, now reports on cloud computing and GPS tracking software using the new theme. Stay Alert Energy is as bright as ever, continuing to post on how to stay alert. Erich Stauffer, the web site about the figurine designer for Arnart creations, has now branched out to cover porcelain figurines and other collectibles.  Webories, a web directories catalog, is now up and running after a long planning session.  And the last two new sites, Nookington’s and Item Processing, are both on the new theme and are providing quality content on Wii games, hardware, and accessories and items processing terms, respectively.

Stay tuned as Cost Publishing continues to grow and provide guides to those looking to find information on the Internet.  Cost Publishing works hand-in-hand with the search engines to bring you relevant information about what you are looking for online.  Follow Cost Publishing on Twitter for more up to date information.

Geek Hand Games for Geeks is the newest website in the Cost Publishing Media Group family. It debuted today to cover board games, video games, and card games to help bring geeks and games together for fun and play. Geek culture is also highlighted under television (such as ‘Chuck‘), movies, and conventions (like Comic-Con). We welcome Geek Hand to our team and hope they achieve their mission, despite the taped-glasses and pocket protectors.

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