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FEDEP teams with EBSCO

First Edition Design eBook Publishing now submits fiction, non-fiction, academic and poetry eBooks to EBSCO.

Sarasota, FL, USA – February 23, 2012 — In addition to its unequaled array of ebook distribution points http://www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com/html/distributionchannels.html, FEDEP (First Edition Design eBook Publishing) will now also submit eBooks, including fiction, non-fiction, academic and poetry to EBSCO (Elton B. Stephens Company).

“We are honored to be associated with such an outstanding company,” said Deborah E. Gordon, CEO of First Edition Design Publishing. “This rounds out our academic distribution and makes our eBooks available to millions of additional end users of EBSCO’s content services through library and educational systems. We look forward to working with them.”

EBSCO is the leading database and eBook provider for libraries and other institutions with more than 375 full-text and secondary research databases and more than 300,000 eBooks and audiobooks available via the EBSCOhost platform. EBSCO provides unparalleled access to world-renowned content in all subject areas including magazine and journal articles available via EBSCOhost® and H.W. Wilson, eBooks and audiobooks and Digital Archives. EBSCO’s content services the research needs of tens of thousands of customers representing millions of end users from K-12 students to public library patrons, from academic, corporate and medical researchers to clinicians and governments around the world.

In March 2011, EBSCO’s president Tim Collins said, “A big part of what we’re doing right now is our work behind the scenes that will culminate in releasing ebooks and audiobooks for delivery via EBSCOhost. We have a very robust plan to expand our ebook offerings over time.” (source: InformationToday.com March 2011)

EBSCOhost, stands as one of the most-used for-fee sites on the Internet serving upwards of 100 million daily page views. EBSCO’s NoveList division provides Readers’ Advisory and Library Services Resources – a variety of services to help empower libraries, engage readers and connect communities.

EBSCO is headquartered in Ipswich, MA, USA and has offices in: the UK, Australia, Japan, Germany, Africa, India, and the Czech Republic.

FEDEP http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com, based in Sarasota, Florida, USA leads the industry in eBook distribution. They convert, format and submit eBooks to Amazon, Apple, Barnes and Noble, Sony, Google, Kobo, Diesel, 3M, Ingram, Baker and Taylor, Nielsen, scores of additional on-line retailers and libraries, schools, colleges and universities. Their reach is to over 100,000 distribution points in more than 100 countries. The company also has a POD (Print On Demand) division, which creates printed books and makes the available worldwide through their distribution network.

Media Contact:
Tom Gahan
First Edition Design Publishing
PO Box 20217, Sarasota FL 34276
631-369-0063
tgahan@firsteditiondesign.com
http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

U.S. Spanish Children’s Book Sales Climb

Amazon Spain launch and U.S. book sales indicate next big market. November is National Picture Book Month.

Midvale, UT, November 22, 2011 – Publishing is evolving and crossing borders like never before, as is children’s literature. Amazon.com’s recent entry into Spain and the explosion of Spanish-language ebook platforms are indicators of the next big publishing market.

Sales of Spanish language books in the United States demonstrate significant demand–including for children’s literature in Spanish. Bilingual author Karl Beckstrand has seen an increase in demand for his Spanish-language and bilingual picture books and e-books.

This year Beckstrand has had three titles on Amazon’s “Hot New Releases” in Spanish list. His Spanish titles outsell the English versions, though most of his titles come with an English/Spanish pronunciation guide. Positive national reviews by the Horn Book blog and ForeWord Reviews don’t hurt either.

During November, National Picture Book Month, Beckstrand expects record sales–not because of the added emphasis–but because, lately, every month is a record sales month. Customers are not all likely to be to Spanish-speakers. It may be that individuals, schools and families agree with Amazon: an additional language is a good idea.

Considering that native Spanish speakers are more common than native English speakers worldwide (the only other native language more common than Spanish is Mandarin, according to Time and Wikipedia), Amazon’s lead should be followed. Beckstrand’s picture books may be a good start.

Premio Publishing has been delighting readers since 2004. Nationally lauded (ForeWord Reviews, Horn Book blog, Midwest Review), our activity picture books–including a cookbook for kids, Spanish/bilingual books with pronunciation guide and English, Spanish or bilingual text, and ebook mysteries–feature minority characters, capture attention and create repeat readers. Distribution via: Ingram, Brodart, Baker & Taylor, Follett/BWI, Amazon, Nook/Kindle/ibooks/Kobo, Premiobooks.com

Contact:
Hysen Lowry
Premio Publishing & Gozo Books, LLC
648 W. Wasatch Street
Midvale, UT 84047, USA
801.953.3793
info@premiobooks.com
http://premiobooks.com

Uncommon Sense Story Motivates Readers to Change Their Lives

Turner offers a look at what we need to do to truly change our lives and how to accomplish our goals. He now shares these lessons and strategies he learned creating a multi-million dollar professional development company that teaches other businesses how to achieve corporate growth.

Valley View, OH, Wednesday – September 28, 2011 — “If you’re not growing, you’re going.”

This is the mantra of Darryl Turner, author of Uncommon $ense, a story about the human struggle with change. Turner said his main character, “Charlie,” is on the brink of failure, but instead becomes successful when he accepts the mentoring of a younger co-worker. The author, an international motivational speaker, sales trainer, and CEO of The Darryl Turner Corporation, said the book was “inspired by the thousands of Charlies my team and I have had the privilege to help over the last two decades.”

“My book is on how we struggle to deal with and process change. It’s a confidential personal struggle,” Turner said. “The topic for the book comes from personal experience,” he said.

“I wrote about what I know and what I help people overcome everyday.”

Turner offers a look at what we need to do to truly change our lives and how to accomplish our goals. He now shares these lessons and strategies he learned creating a multi-million dollar professional development company that teaches other businesses how to achieve corporate growth.

“The goal is to inspire people emotionally to take steps they would not normally take,” Turner said. “Adapting to a model not of your own is tough.” Uncommon $ense is about what people go through, Turner explained. “It’s a 100 percent real life accurate story. People can relate to the characters.” And when they have finished Uncommon $ense, the author said, readers will have a “significant call to action.”

“Don’t settle for common sense and average results,” Turner said, “set your sights much higher. Set them toward acquiring Uncommon $ense.”

Turner said he gained inspiration to write the book from his Christian faith and pastor Glen Berteau, who penned the forward for Uncommon $ense. The author and his wife of 29 years, Darlene, have four children ages 26, 20, 18 and 5. He has published numerous business related articles.

To order Turner’s new book, visit http://www.halopublishing.com. For information about the author, visit http://www.DarrylTurnerSeminars.com or http://www.DarrylTurnerCorp.com. His podcasts are available on iTunes.

Press & Media Contact:
Lisa M. Umina, Publisher
Halo Publishing International
5549 Canal Road
Valley View, OH 44125
877-705-9647
lisa@halopublishing.com
http://www.halopublishing.com

Amy Winehouse’s “Personal Painter” Releases Art I Love

Book includes Sam Shaker’s work along with instruction for developing artists.

United States and London, Thursday – September 08, 2011 — Artist, jazz club owner, and celebrity confidant Sam Shaker’s first book, Art I Love, is a rarity in its category – an art book that tells a readable, engaging story.

Part autobiography, part instructional guide, and part historical account, Art I Love (2012, Hola Publishing International, an Imprint of Halo Publishing International), chronicles Shaker’s development from Parisian street artist to recognition as Europe’s premier creator of commissioned celebrity portraits. His subjects have included the late Amy Winehouse (who called Shaker her “second dad”), actor Kevin Spacey, singer/songwriter Adele, and model Kate Moss.

Shaker describes Art I Love as, “approachable for newbies, academic enough for students, and serious enough for history buffs interested in the cultures of Paris and Spain and how these cultures were influenced by artists of various periods.”

Art I Love is the product of decades of diligent work and the culmination of an improbable journey to professional recognition. A self-described “huge Picasso fan,” Shaker studied art and graphic design at the Leonard da Vinci Academy, and was awarded a diploma in Fine Arts. Soon after, he left his native Cairo for Paris to pursue a career as an artist. After years of sporadic success – and nearly starving to death – he left art behind, albeit temporarily, to launch and operate Jazz After Dark, which would eventually become a successful music club in London’s Soho district.

It was at Jazz After Dark that an encounter with Kate Moss spurred Shaker to create again. She commissioned him to paint her portrait, the London media took notice, and Shaker had quickly established his reputation as a specialist in celebrity portraits. Many of these works are reproduced in Art I Love.

Shaker met Amy Winehouse long before the singer achieved international superstardom. “She came to my club, and the admission charge was £3. She said she didn’t have £3, so I told her she could pay me next time,” he recalls. The unlikely friendship blossomed in the years that followed. “She was creative, kind, talented and a very genuine person. She loved art, music, and writing. She never forgot her friends and people like me who gave her a helping hand in her career. She was very loyal to me and never commissioned any other artist to paint her portrait.”

Art I Love also offers a wealth of practical instruction for art students. Techniques, based on Shaker’s own learning experiences, are provided in regard to planning a painting, selecting appropriate materials, working from live subjects versus working from photos, and addressing the nuances in skin tones, shading, facial proportions and similar challenges encountered by the developing artist.

About Sam Shaker
Sam Shaker was born in Cairo, Egypt and studied art at the Leonard da Vinci Academy. The father of three grown children, he owns and operates Jazz After Dark, a popular London music club and art gallery.

A prolific portrait painter, Shaker’s recent subjects have included Prince William and Kate Middleton, The Beatles, Kate Moss, Kevin Spacey, Pete Doherty, Adele, Mark Ronson and many others.

About Hola Publishing International:
Since 2002, Halo Publishing International (HPI) has produced more than 200 titles in adult fiction and non-fiction, children’s, inspirational, sports and recreation, and other categories. Hola Publishing International is Halo’s imprint company.

Visit http://www.halopublishing.com for details.

Press & Media Contact:
Lisa Umina
Halo Publishing International
P.O. Box 60326, AP #726
Houston, TX 77205
(216) 255-6756
Lisa@HaloPublishing.com
http://www.halopublishing.com

First Edition Design eBook Publishing Launches UK Division

ePublisher now doing business in 17 currencies.

Sarasota, FL, Friday – July 22, 2011 — eBook Publisher and Master Distributor First Edition Design eBook Publishing opened their UK division this week. With the addition of on-line address www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.co.uk and capabilities to now exchange seventeen different currency rates, the company continues its international expansion.

“We now distribute eBooks worldwide to over 3,500 on-line outlets including libraries and schools. This is in addition to major on-line eBooksellers that includes, but is not limited to, Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Google eBooks, Sony and Diesel,” said First Edition Design, Inc.’s CEO Deborah E. Gordon. “We have been receiving a flurry of inquiries and orders from overseas. Our new international arena allows clients to easily access us and process orders quickly in a currency that is familiar to them. It’s also more expedient for our global distribution partners to process eBook sales in their native currency.”

About First Edition Design Inc:
First Edition Design eBook Publishing, headquartered in Sarasota, Florida USA, is a licensed Apple Developer and Microsoft Solution Provider. They convert digital files and reformat them to usable eBook file formats such as HTML, Java, .mobi, ePub, PDF, RFT, LFR, PDB and plain text. As a Master Distributor First Edition Design Publishing submits properly formatted eBook files to Amazon Kindle, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes & Noble’s BookNook, Border’s, Kobo, Google’s eBookstore, Sony, Diesel’s eBookstore and worldwide to over 3,500 additional internet distribution points, including libraries, schools, and on-line eBook retailers. Visit www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com for more details..

Press & Media Contact:
Tom Gahan
First Edition Design Inc
PO Box 20217
Sarasota, FL 34276
Tel. 631-369-0063
Fax. 617-249-1694
tgahan@firsteditiondesign.com
http://www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com

Litdotorg Endorses First Edition Design eBook Publishing

Support grows as First Edition Design ePublishing surges ahead.

Sarasota, FL, Wednesday – July 06, 2011 — As soon as eBook publisher and Master Distributor First Edition Design eBook Publishing entered the burgeoning eBook business, endorsements for the company’s services began to roll in.

Don Windle, a Books and Products reviewer at http://www.eBookChronicles.com said in an on-line article on June 5, 2011, “You’ve spent months or perhaps years writing your book. It’s finally complete and you want to deliver it to the world. What’s the next step? Where do you go from here? You might want to check out First Edition Design eBooks!”

Sandra Yuen McKay, editor of Majestic, the Official Newsletter of Litdotorg, ( http://www.lit.org ) an ePublishing and writers on-line community, endorsed First Edition Design eBook Publishing. McKay said in her column, From the Editor’s Desk, “I recommend one company I researched named First Edition Design eBook Publishing. This is really a one-stop service that’s quick and efficient. They are not a traditional publisher but an Agent/Publisher. You maintain rights to your work. All you need is a Word document or other acceptable format and they do the rest for a fee depending on what services you’d like. They will take your document and turn it into an ebook. They will provide a eISBN designation, marketing tools, a website if you like, and format your ebook for each platform they distribute through which is over 1000 worldwide. They retain no royalties but pay the author monthly.”

LitDotOrg is a mixture of people and ideas that combines useful information and quality columns. Created by writers for writers over seven years ago, LitDotOrg is a portal to literature and lit related web sites on the web.

Daleen Berry, an award-winning journalist and author of the breakout memoir titled Sister of Silence said in a Facebook author’s forum post, “I’m posting this to let you know how easy it is to have your book made into an ebook. I’ve been holding out for a while now, but so many people kept asking, I felt obligated. With skyrocketing ebook sales, though, it’s probably rather silly not to make your book available in this format, with this new tool. Using First Editions (First Edition Design eBook Publishing), I submitted my files last Friday and less than a week later, here it is!”

First Edition Design, Inc., ( http://www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com ) headquartered in Sarasota, Florida USA, is a licensed Apple Developer and Microsoft Solution Provider. They convert digital files and reformat them to usable eBook file formats such as HTML, Java, .mobi, ePub, PDF, RFT, LFR, PDB and plain text. First Edition Design Publishing, as a Master Distributor, submits properly formatted eBook files to Amazon’s Kindle, Apple’s iBookstore, Barnes & Noble’s BookNook, Borders’ Kobo, Google’s eBookstore, Sony eReaders, Diesel’s eBookstore and world-wide to over 1,000 additional internet distribution points, including libraries, schools, and on-line eBook retailers. Visit http://www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com for more details.

Press & Media Contact
Tom Gahan
First Edition Design Inc.
PO Box 20217
Sarasota, FL 34276
Tel. 631-369-0063
Fax. 617-249-1694
tgahan@firsteditiondesign.com
http://www.firsteditiondesignebooks.com

Halo Publishing International Expands Author Services

New Publishing Options Include eBooks and Spanish Translations.

Valley View, OH, March 31, 2011 — Halo Publishing International ( http://www.halopublishing.com ) authors now have the opportunity to offer their original work as an eBook or Spanish language publication. For nearly a decade, Halo Publishing International has been helping authors throughout the world launch their original books. This year, the company is expanding to offer creative clients these two new services.

Halo Publishing International is an independently owned publishing company dedicated to helping individual writers self-publish books. More than a publishing company, Halo (Helping Authors Launch Originals) is a community that passionately believes in its authors and their messages. With offices in the United States and Mexico, the company specializes in designing, producing, publishing, and marketing books for independent authors.

Beginning April 15th, Halo will introduce the production of eBooks for fiction books to be available on Kindle and ePub readers. Halo’s new imprint company, Halo Publishing Internacional, ( http://www.halopublishing.com ) will publish Spanish language books and eBooks. Authors interested in producing a book in Spanish can get assistance with translation, production, printing and distribution. Hola Publishing Internacional will work with Vibra TV, located in Mexico City, to produce Spanish commercials that will introduce the new line of books.

“Halo is dedicated to providing the best available self-publishing resources and keeping up with new technology, which allows authors to present in a better modern way,” said Halo Publisher Lisa Umina. “We are making these changes in order to better serve our authors.”

“Trying to become a published author can be a difficult and lonely process, but it doesn’t have to be,” said Umina, an award-winning author herself. “The Halo Team has developed a dynamic approach to publishing. We are committed to ensuring that our authors retain the rights to their work and guide them, step-by-step, through the publishing process.”

During the past 10 years, Halo has established itself as a leader in the self-publishing industry and has helped countless authors realize their dreams while bringing the best of self-published books to a worldwide audience.

Visit Halopublishing.com or call 877-705-9647 for information.

Press & Media Contact:
Lisa M. Umina, Publisher
Halo Publishing International
5549 Canal Road
Valley View, OH 44125
216-255-6756
lisa@halopublishing.com
http://www.halopublishing.com