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   Take Control Ebook Signing at Smile's Macworld/iWorld Booth

   Adam C. Engst

   One casualty of the modern ebook world is book signings. One of the
   most ego-boosting days of my life as an author was when a company
   bought a boatload of my 'Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh' books and
   gave them away at a book signing promotion during the Macintosh Volume
   Buyer event before Macworld Expo in Boston in the mid-1990s. There's
   nothing like signing book after book while the linesnakes out of sight
   around a corner to make you feel like a best-selling author, even when
   you know everyone got their copy for free.

   With ebooks, it's harder to have an in-person event, and even harder,
   if you do, to sign those digital copies. But while talking with Jean
   Macdonald of [1]Smile, I realized that we actually do now have the
   technology, thanks to Smile's [2]PDFpen for iPad app.

   So, at 3:00 PM on Friday, 1 February 2013, at the Smile booth in the
   Appalooza section of the Macworld/iWorld show floor, Joe Kissell and
   Michael Cohen will be signing copies of their Take Control ebooks:
   '[3]Take Control of PDFpen 5' and '[4]Take Control of TextExpander' for
   Michael, and '[5]Take Control of Your Paperless Office' and a slew of
   other titles for Joe. Of course, you'll need to have the ebook in
   [6]PDFpen with you, but Michael and Joe will each have their own
   stylus. Tonya and I plan to be hanging around as well to see how this
   sort of digital book signing works out, so if you want to say hello or
   ask any questions, this will be a good time to catch a number of us in
   one place.

   And yes, I've added this signing to the [7]TidBITS Events calendar. See
   you there!

References

   1. http://smilesoftware.com/
   2. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdfpen/id490774625?mt=8
   3. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/pdfpen-5?pt=TB1158
   4. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/textexpander?pt=TB1158
   5. http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/paperless-office?pt=TB1158
   6. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pdfpen/id490774625?mt=8
   7. webcal://p02-calendarws.icloud.com/ca/subscribe/1/1fykyeloNsBN_opxg3XN1vHn2aNkFQXaJ4OU7qCtkByNyW66ZiQ5u45FsnrUOp12GSWenFRvinLtm6E3HdtYK1nXJlwEy1YuiJogx7aU-C0

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