PWG Writers Archive

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

In the Nook: A Review of the Nook ePublisher by Barns and Noble

Simple Nook Touch eReader

Months back, I was told about a great little resource called Nook offered by Barnes & Noble that allows authors to publish their works of poetry, short stories, memoirs and basically whatever. I admit I didn't give it much thought until I went to do some writing at my local coffee spot hangout. I noticed a lot of people had these nifty little eReaders out on the tables while they drank coffee and socialized.

My fellow author pal nodded at me and smiled. "They could be reading your book right now." He remarked with some arrogance. Intrigued, I looked this new thing up online and joined. It was quite easy to get started and in no time I had nearly 50 pages of my book project saved in a working Nook file.

Now, here is the part that fascinated me. When I'm ready to publish, my book will be available for purchase both on Nook and on Barnes & Noble online eReader listings. And if I get enough sales they will print my book into hardcover and put it on their shelves. Amazing. I could become a real life novelist just that easy. I recommend anyone with a dusty old novel project sitting under their desk to give it a review.

So far, I'm proud to say my book is nearly completed using the easy to use interface and helpful resources there at the touch of a button. It formats my pages for me and lets me preview exactly what my layout will look like in published form. It's quite odd to see my own words sitting there in front of me as it would be if I were reading a Steven King novel. This is perhaps the aspect of the Nook system that is so appealing.

As enjoyable as it is to read a book online via the Nook eReader it is just as enjoyable to write with the Nook publishing platform. It's free to write using the downloadable software so I can't really use that as an excuse for not finishing my book anymore. In this respect, I guess Nook is also a motivational tool for us procrastinating future best sellers.

For more information about this product visit the B&N website at http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/nook/379003208. And publishers and writers visit https://www.nookpress.com/projects

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FAQ

1. All posts must be 150 words or more in length. There is no limit beyond that. Write as much as you like, or as little as you like, as long as it is at least 150 words.

2. There is no limit on the number of posts you can make per day, week, etc. Post to your little hearts content.

3. A valid gmail account is required in order to become a member of this community.

4. All posts must adhere to Adsense guidelines. Failure to do so may result in deletion/banning of your account either by Adsense, or by site Administrators. Use a little common sense in this regard, and you should be fine. This includes the use of things like click sharing sites and pornography. If you aren't sure, don't do it!

5. Be kind to your fellow community members. This is YOUR community. Simply treat others as you want to be treated. Again, a little common sense is all it takes here.

6. Please direct all questions to the PWG HelpDesk. They will be answered as soon as possible.

7. All images used in your articles should be properly attributed with a viable source credit. Only images that are either A) Your own (this should be noted)
B) Free and fair to use (i.e., Public Domain, or properly sourced from a site such as Wikimedia Commons, Morguefiles, etc.)
or C) Have proper permissions from the photographer or source, plainly listed with them.

All Image credits must be listed.

8. Plagiarism will NOT be allowed in any form. If you choose to steal the work of another, you WILL be banned from this site, and yes, I DO make random checks for plagiarized content.

9. Any republished work should include the site name, original date of publication, and the name it was published under, if different from the one you use here. Original work is always preferred, however.

Heroes Everywhere

Everyone wants to be a hero. We all watched superman, batman, spider man, and many other superheroes and wanted to be like them. Tell me to be a superhero do we really need to wear a costume and wear masks and have high tech stuffs? No! We can all be a hero not to the world but to a certain someone who desperately needs help. Someone who is ill, financially not stable, had a rough day, a kid who is bullied, an old man crossing streets a man staying in the streets. We can also be a hero by giving t-shirts, toys and some of your old stuffs to some unfortunate kids. I watch some videos in YouTube that inspires me every day to do something good for people. If you give something to someone unfortunate you will be much happier than the person who received it. There is a song that I would like to share with you that you can relate to other things, the song goes like this

“Love is something if you give it away

Give it away, give it away.

Love is something if you give it away

It will come right back to you

It’s just like a magic penny

Hold it tight and don’t get any

Lend it spend it give it away

It will come right back to you”

I used to sing this song when I was young. I joined a relief operation in the Philippines one time I joined a team of many teens including me it was sponsored by Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) it’s a humanitarian agency operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church for the purpose of providing individual and community development and disaster relief. I helped them give foods to the typhoon affected people each time a person came to take the package they had a big smile which is a ray of hope in their life. I don’t want to keep you here only reading but I also want you to check out some videos that might inspire you . Have a good day and don’t forget to share J

Morning Everyone!

Morning Everyone!

Wow this is so exciting to be here, thank you for the invite and I hope I can be a positive part of this community. I love writing and enjoy reading others who write also.
A little about me, I am a single mom, working from home online trying to make ends meet by writing and blogging.
It can be done anything that you put your mind to you will be successful at. I have no choice since this is my only source of income, besides my freelance photography. I have been very successful with blogging so it does work folks.

Monday, February 10, 2014

PWG: It's Like Facebook But It Pays You.

What if Facebook paid you a portion of the millions they earn from your page views everyday? Would that be special? How about if they paid you 100% of their total revenue earned from page views? That sounds amazing, I agree. That's the model behind this new social networking blog platform called Preferred Writers Group (PWG) myself and a few fellow writers are developing.

Sharing and Commenting

If you enjoy posting on Facebook & Commenting on your friend's posts, you can do that here and earn real money. 150 - 200 words or slightly more than a paragraph is enough to be considered a post. In fact, this post has already met the minimum required for a post here. Submit a post and leave comments on your friend's post. It's that easy.

Watch Your Earnings Grow

The overall projected earnings is posted on every page. So you will always have a good idea of how well we are doing. At the end of the month these earnings are divided up by page views and every member gets paid based upon their total valid page views. Here is where PWG begins to differ from any other site. You get paid 100% of your total earnings in valid page views promptly on a monthly basis. As we grow the payouts will become weekly.

Back Link, Re-Post & Promote

As long as your content is yours, you can re-post here. You can back link to your other revenue sites. You can promote your product or articles located elsewhere with links directly from your posts. As writers ourselves, we can relate and are supportive of your need to earn. Rather than come down on you for even mentioning other earning sites, we hope to be resourceful to our members in every way possible. One of the most popular questions is, "Where can I earn money online?" Here you can tell them. You can share the links to those sites directly from your posts. Fullofknowledge.com & Yahoo Contributor Network. And even share the pros and cons of other sites based on your experience.

I'm No Hemingway

You don't have to be. A simple paragraph about your day, will earn you money on every valid page view. The same thing you would typically submit on a long Facebook post will earn you real money here. If you would like to learn more about PWG and get in on the ground floor of a great new earnings site Click the "How It Works" Link in the top toolbar!

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Join Our Preferred Writers Community!

Register For Free

Sign up for a free account with PWG by sending a valid Gmail address where you wish to receive your invite. There are several ways to contact PWG:

(1) Email us at eve.orion@yahoo.com with your valid Gmail address.

(2) Simply request a friend invite via Facebook at www.facebook.com/jaid.orion & message me your valid Gmail address for invite.

(3) Leave a comment on this post including your valid Gmail address requesting invite.

You will receive your invite within 24 hours and you can start sharing with our community!

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PWG HelpDesk

Post your questions here as a comment for support so we can discuss and resolve your issue and help others at the same time.
Thanks!
How To filter your Gmail comment notifications in Blogger
How To Prevent Blogger Notifications From Flooding My Email
How To See All Your PWG Posts In A Single Page

Siddharth

Fix for Error: "Normal 0 false false false EN-IN X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4"

Mostly this error message appears when text is being copied directly from MS Word to Blogger. MS Word adds many special formatting/fonts tags which are not recognized by Blogger. Hence it leads to above mentioned errors. Remember, these errors are not due to blogger templates.

To solve this problem, for new posts, simply write directly in blogger editor. Or - if you want to copy text from MS Word, then there are two solutions:

(1) First copy text to any ASCII Editor like Notepad and then copy it again to post on blogger.
(2) Paste copied text to the “HTML” Tab rather than the “Compose” Tab of the Blogger editor.

Fix: Allow Googlebot to Crawl Your Blogger Page.
This can be the issue if you can not locate your posts on the Google search engine.

1. Goto your blogger dashboard/settings/search preferences: Crawlers and Indexing
2. Select "Custom robots.txt" and click Edit
3. Now copy/paste this line:
User-agent: Google
Disallow:

User-agent: *
Disallow:
4. Save Changes
The "Disallow" fields have been left open to specify there are no crawl restrictions on your site by Google.
Check to see that the robot.txt is updated by searching your url address/robot.txt in your browser:
http://yoururladdress.com/robots.txt. You should see the updated robot.txt. Note: You may not begin to see your recent posts until the next time your site is crawled.

How to see only my posts in the Posts Log.
Put an ID tag in small print at the bottom of each post. I use a personal 5 digit number but it can be anything you wish as long as it is unique to your articles alone. Then in the post section, key this tag into the search box to display only your posts bearing that tag.

Related Articles:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/promotion/ht/htrobotstxt.htm
http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

Post ID 10197

PWG Offers Aggressive New Earnings Model

Post by Eveorion

Earn 100% of Your Page View Earnings
Preferred Writers Group offers writers total earnings potential, back linking, unprecedented freedom, transparency & 100% of their earnings on every valid page view.

How It Works
The Preferred Writers Group community enables our users to engage and interact with each other and earn 100% of their ad revenue from valid page views. Yes, you read that correctly. Writers earn 100% of their generated revenue from each valid page view. You will get paid your full earnings for every view, comment, and social media share toward your posts.

How Can We Do This?
Simple. Staff/Admins are writers also. To earn here we ALL have to post and earn page views alongside our valued writers. No one is above this rule. It doesn't get any fairer than that. Join PWG & start earning your 100%!

Across The Board

No generated revenue will ever be deducted from the writers' earnings. So all additional revenue generated from other than valid pages views goes back into the community account to ensure you NEVER receive a missed/late payment. This overall earnings reserve will be clearly displayed in real time on your Earnings Tab located on the top left of every page.

Earn While Commenting
Posting is not the only way to earn here. Members can also increase their overall page views from previously submitted posts by interacting with each other. Commenting on posts increases the overall page views and thus increases your overall generated earnings when they reciprocate by leaving a comment on your posts.

No Restrictive Policies
You are free to write about anything you wish. We only ask that you follow the guidelines set by our sponsors.

- 150 word minimum per post
- Original grammatically correct content with approved images.
- Cite your sources when posting about news stories or events.
- No use of bots or IP manipulation to generate false page views
.

Remember, these tricks won't earn revenue from sponsors and thus will never earn you anything here anyway. So play fair.

Backlink To Your Other Paysites

You are welcome to link to your other revenue earning sites, posts, blogs etc. with one exception. Please do not post affiliate or referral links. It's annoying to readers and to be honest, you aren't getting paid much to do that crap anyway. Your legitimate earning ventures are always welcomed.

Register For Free

Sign up for a free account with PWG by sending a valid Gmail address where you wish to receive your invite. There are several ways to contact PWG:

(1) Email us at eve.orion@yahoo.com with your valid Gmail address.

(2) Simply request a friend invite via Facebook at www.facebook.com/jaid.orion & message me your valid Gmail address for invite.

(3) Leave a comment on this post including your valid Gmail address requesting invite.

You will receive your invite within 24 hours and you can start sharing with our community!

Fully Interactive Support

The Blogger user interface is fairly straight forward and easy to learn. You can use the Blogger help page for detailed html scripting of your posts. Your questions regarding earnings will never be sent to some spam box. They come directly to me! Contact me anytime for anything either via email or my Facebook page.

(1) Email me directly at eve.orion@yahoo.com

(2) Message me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jaid.orion

Building Our Community

Our Community is just starting out so it may be 30 days before you begin to see earnings if you are just getting in on the ground floor. But as we grow in numbers and generate more revenue, a working payroll account will be established to ensure each writer has funds available on a weekly basis. You will be able to see our real-time earnings via our Earnings Tab located on the top left of every page. And as our community grows, each writer's individual available earnings will increase incrementally. Your account will ALWAYS have funds available. It's up to you to earn your full potential. This ensures you will NEVER experience a late/missed payment!

Transparent Earnings Tab

You will notice at the top left of every page our Earnings Tab. This is a real time accounting of our monthly progress and available earnings per member for the month. This tab includes:

- Our total members to date

- Our real time monthly earnings

- AdRate/1000 views (RPM)

- Potential earnings each member has available. Example: ($100/10 mbrs = $10.00 available to you)

- The rollover sum is the unclaimed earnings generated from last month.

About Rollover Earnings
All generated income must be earned from valid page views only with no exceptions. Additional revenue generated from organic traffic, etc. are carried over to the writers’ account each month to ensure we always have enough to pay our valued members!

Rollover Earnings / total members = available monthly earnings payroll
$1000 / 10 members = $100 available to each member

Analytics

You will get paid for every valid page view based on our Google Analytics Reports... Period. If it counts to our Advertisers it counts for you and you get 100% of your page view earnings. No questions asked.

Example:

Total Valid Page Views: 100,000

Average earnings/page view: $0.008 x 100,000 = $800.00

Your Valid Page Views: 5000

Your Earnings: 5000 x .008 = $40.00

The average Rate/1000 views fluctuates and can be (RPM)

Getting Paid

As mentioned we are a new community so payouts will begin on a monthly basis to start. Once we build up our earnings, we will move to a bi-weekly payout. Then finally payouts will be sent automatically each week. Our progress will be posted on our Earnings Tab located at the top left of every page for full transparency.

Your Dashboard

You can review the views of your posts as well as those of fellow members via the "Dashboard". Your Dashboard can be easily located on your top toolbar. From your Dashboard you can:

- Create a New Post

- Review/edit your posts

- See your current number of page views/comments

- Google + Shares & More
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