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In August 2021, ecommerce and omnichannel retailers have many topics to choose from for content marketing, including back-to-school shopping guides, informative ebooks, MTV’s 40th birthday, presidential jokes, and items with an international flavor.
Content market is the process of creating content, publishing it, and promoting it to attract, engage, and retain an audience of customers. Content marketing can help with search engine optimization and pay-per-click ads.
Sometimes, however, it can be challenging to know what topics to address. What follows are five content marketing ideas you can use for your business in August 2021.
In June 2021, the National Retail Federation surveyed back-to-school and off-to-college shoppers about the forthcoming academic year. More than two-thirds (64%) believed that school would be primarily in-person this fall. What’s more, about 26% of surveyed shoppers had already started to look online as they plan purchases.
An NRF survey found that most back-to-school shoppers expect in-person classes this fall.
These results may indicate a robust back-to-school retail season.
While your online shop will almost certainly want to deploy ads and email, don’t leave out content. For August 2021, create back-to-school shopping guides for every age group — elementary school through college, as well as parents.
The guides should be specific to the industry your online store serves. For example, a store that sells household cleaning supplies could publish the “Definitive Guide to Back-to-school Stains and How to Remove Them.”
This guide would feature cleaning supplies and, perhaps, cleaning supply bundles or kits aimed at common back-to-school stains. One section of the guide could address how to remove grass stains from a soccer or football uniform. Another article might focus on removing mud from carpets.
Let August 2021 be the month you do something extraordinary with your content marketing. Create an ebook related to the products your business sells that are 10-times better than anything else available.
And then use that ebook to generate site traffic, leads, and sales. This approach is tried and true. Consider BigCommerce, for example. The company creates excellent ebooks and guides. It uses these for lead capture, but a B2C seller could easily use the concept to build an email list.
B2B SaaS companies such as BigCommerce have been using ebooks to encourage traffic, capture leads, and make sales for years.
Next, BigCommerce creates lots of blog posts around the topic of the guide. The posts often draw content from the ebook.
The ebook you create can also be repurposed into several articles, such as this direct-to-consumer example from BigCommerce.
Take this idea and apply it to your products. For example, an online store selling house plants could create a 30-page ebook titled “The Ultimate Guide to Growing Plants in an Apartment.”
Music Television — MTV — was revolutionary when it launched on August 1, 1981. Anyone old enough to remember early MTV probably remembers watching hours of music videos played back-to-back with little interruption. The channel changed how a generation related to music. This explains the first video played on MTV: The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star.”

For your company’s August 2021 content marketing, use MTV’s 40th as a springboard to focus on 1980’s nostalgia as it might relate to your store’s products. You could do this in a few ways.
If your business is music-related, treat the anniversary as history or analyze how MTV impacted the industry. If your products are not music-specific, use MTV as a landmark and compare its launch to your company or the popularity of your products.
Here is an example. Say that you have a direct-to-consumer brand selling beard oils and beard grooming supplies. You could publish an article with a headline of “Did MTV Give Rise to the Modern Beardsman?”
In the example, a store selling beard grooming products could create a humorous article about how MTV may have encouraged beard growth.
This article could analyze the first 100 music videos played on MTV in 1981, counting the number of men shown in the videos and calculating the percentage with facial hair. This percentage, which is near zero, would be compared to the percentage now appearing on MTV. The article could be funny.
If there is a way to connect MTV’s 40th anniversary to beard grooming products, there is likely also a way to connect your products to the milestone, too.
If your company’s brand is casual, consider creating content for Presidential Joke Day on August 11, 2021.
President Ronald Reagan started presidential joke day, but any president can get in on the laughs. Shown here are presidents Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
As an example, you might produce a video. Ask 10 of your company’s employees to tell a favorite presidential joke and release the combined video on social media or promote it with email.
If you need some inspiration, read Andy Simmons’s article from Reader’s Digest, “17 Sick Presidential Burns to Steal on ‘National Presidential Joke Day,’” or Julia Davis’ Mental Floss article, “9 Presidential Jokes for Presidential Joke Day.”
You will find jokes about presidents and from presidents. Here is a one-liner from President Eisenhower: “An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-Southern Methodist football game and doesn’t care who wins.”
Finally, as you contemplate National Joke Day, take a moment to remember its origin. During a microphone check before giving a speech on August 11, 1984, President Ronald Reagan said, “My fellow Americans. I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”
The “joke” was not broadcast live, but a recording was later leaked.
Ecommerce has made retail international. And content knows few borders, too. So a blog post hosted on an ecommerce site in China, Germany, or the United States can reach customers worldwide.
In August 2021, aim at least some of your company’s content at an international audience. This doesn’t necessarily mean that you need to make significant changes; rather, think of ways to include readers or viewers from outside of your region.
For example, look at men’s apparel retailer Mr. Porter. A recent post, “The Best-Dressed Men Of June 2021,” featured males photographed at events around the world.
Mr. Porter’s article has an international feel.
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January 5, 2022 By Michael Kozlowski Leave a Comment

Public libraries all over the world have robust audiobook and ebook catalogs. In order to carry this digital material, they need to do business with a digital distributor, such as Overdrive, Cloud Library, Hoopla and many others. These companies have established relationships with all of the major publishers, and they all have drastically different terms. Some have circulation limits, before the title has been purchased again, while others allow for one copy for every user. Digital content cannot be purchased for a one time fee and loaned out an infinite number of times.
Audiobooks and ebooks can be listened to on a myriad of devices. The Kobo line of e-readers has Overdrive integration, so users just need to enter their library card in the settings menu and can browse their local branches collection, borrow and read, right on the reader. If you have a Barnes and Noble Nook, you need to download Adobe Digital Editions, download the ebook from the libraries website and then sideload in the book with ADE. The Amazon Kindle can have ebooks automatically sent from the library, with the download to Kindle program, but this just works in the United States. Android e-readers, smartphones and tablets can normally download the Libby, Cloud Library or Hoopla app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, these provide a frictionless borrowing experience.
Just how much do libraries have to pay for each of the big publishers, such as Hachette, HarperCollins, Penguin Random House or Simon & Schuster? Every year Good e-Reader breaks down the lending terms by the publisher,  so everyone can know. This will help the average patron understand what is going on, but also provide valuable data to public libraries. Thanks to Overdrive, for continuing to provide Good e-Reader with meaningful data.

Michael Kozlowski has been writing about audiobooks and e-readers for the past twelve years. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Ebook download site library.nu and its hosting site ifile.it have been served with cease-and-desist orders from a group of publishers, leading to the shutdown of library.nu and removal of files from ifile.it.
In the wake of Megaupload’s shutdown, anti-piracy groups are pushing through action against other sites that host or link to pirated works. Ebook link site library.nu is the latest to go dark after being served a cease-and-desist order by a group of over a dozen publishers, including Oxford University Press and Elsevier. The group alleged that the site contained links to 400,000 pirated ebooks, which were hosted on cyberlocker ifile.it, and that the two sites had generated 8 million euros ($10.4 million US) in advertising, though it’s not clear whether that’s an annual number or a total over library.nu’s roughly five-year tenure. Unlike library.nu, ifile.it is still operational, but has disabled anonymous uploading and removed ebook files associated with library.nu.
Besides being probably the biggest dedicated ebook download site, library.nu was notable for linking to a large number of academic texts, explaining the prominence of educational publishers like Elsevier in the alliance. The effort was coordinated by the German Publishers and Booksellers Association and the International Publishers Association, which say this move shows that international publishing “continues to stand up against organized copyright crime.” Unlike with Megaupload, no domains were seized, and it appears that no criminal charges will be filed. Instead, library.nu’s status page displays a brief message: “rip lnu.”
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(Second of three parts)
Last week, we looked at how Jesse Armstrong, the showrunner of the HBO hit series “Succession” satirically skewers the uber-wealthy. We saw how, in the first two seasons, media mogul Logan Roy continuously pits his power-hungry children Kendall, Shiv, Roman and Connor against each other in their bid to be his heir.

Warning: spoilers ahead.
In the third season, with no heir chosen, Kendall declares open warfare against his father, even as the siblings shift sides and jockey for control. Other characters finally get their share of the limelight. Shiv’s pathetic husband Tom Wambsgans (played alternately with pathos and humor by Matthew Macfadyen) provides much-needed comic relief, as he negatively practices the Golden Rule: doing unto Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) what his wife and the family do unto him, even as he tries his best to make his wife reciprocate his love (the only kind of genuine love to be found in the show, but at the end of the season, Tom’s pure love for Shiv may finally disappear).

On their wedding night, to Tom’s shock, Shiv tells him she wants an open marriage. She defines love as “twenty-eight different things, and they all get lumped in together into one sack, and there’s a lot of things in that sack—it needs to be emptied out. There’s fear, and jealousy, and revenge and control, and they all get wrapped up in really nice f** wrapping paper.”
Another time, Tom tells Shiv desperately, “I wonder if the sad I’d be without you would be less than the sad I get from being with you.” (This is the most romantic and saddest line in the series).

Shockingly, Tom discusses with Shiv the idea of being the fall guy for Logan, going to prison on behalf of his father-in-law. Shiv agrees and says that the gesture will be “gold” for her dad.
In the end, however, leveraging clan money and power, no one goes to jail.
Cousin Greg might be the underdog we long to root for, as he tries to claim his share of the family pie. But “Succession” resists any hint of redemption, and as Greg’s blunders increasingly grow less endearing and more banal, he symbolizes the parasitic hangers-on who hover around wealthy families.
My friend Lena (not her real name), who runs a manufacturing family business in Manila, hates Greg’s character most of all. She says Greg reminds her of second- and third-degree relatives who constantly demand money from the family.
“My father is the most hardworking, but my uncles and aunts constantly ask money from him, and he is too nice to say ‘no,’” Lena says.

The New Yorker film critic Rebecca Mead says, “[The show] withholds cheap catharsis. Kendall’s backsliding with drugs is only the most overt example of the show’s gothic sensibility: all the Roys have been poisoned by the toxic nature of the family fortune, and Armstrong refuses to impose on them the kind of artificial personal growth that fosters an easy bond with the audience. The closest that ‘Succession’ has come to giving its characters a respite from their crabbed emotional confinement is when Kendall, at a particularly low ebb, begs Shiv for a hug. She awkwardly complies, but only after saying in astonishment, ‘Give you a hug?’”
Other hangers-on include general counsel Gerri Kellman (J. Smith-Cameron), who Logan finally picks as CEO during the sexual harassment crisis, and company executives (all WEIRD: white, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic) whose ineptitude boggles the imagination.
Another friend, Mila, heir to a family retail empire, carps, “Logan’s people remind me of our executive committee. They have no ideas of their own. They get paid huge salaries for just saying ‘yes’ to everything my dad says.”
Lena retorts, “And whose fault is that? Beware, you don’t want your company turning into Waystar [Logan’s company].”

But whatever their fawning or ineptitude, there is no excuse for Logan to humiliate these hangers-on. One scene is particularly painful to watch: the paranoid Logan forces his executives to play “Boar on the Floor,” and they oink and crawl in front of him during a corporate retreat in Europe.
(To be concluded next week)
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Want free ebook downloads so that you never run out of reading material? Here are the best sites for downloading free ebooks.
If you have an ereader, there's enough reading material available to keep you busy for a lifetime—and that's just the books available for free.
But free ebook downloads are hard to find unless you know the right websites to visit. As such, to help you out, this article lists some of the best sites that offer free ebooks for you to read.
Overdrive is the cleanest, fastest, and most legal way to access millions of ebooks—not just ones in the public domain, but even recently released mainstream titles.
There is one hitch though: you'll need a valid and active public library card or to be a student to have access to these free ebooks. Overdrive works with over 30,000 public libraries in over 40 different countries worldwide. In addition to free ebook checkouts, you can also listen to audiobooks for free.
If you can access the service, you will have instant access to the latest The New York Times Bestsellers. The list updates weekly, so you'll never miss out on a hot read.
Library Genesis is a search engine for free reading material, including ebooks, articles, magazines, and more. As of this writing, Library Genesis indexes close to three million ebooks and 60 million articles. It would take several lifetimes to consume everything on offer here.
Both fiction and non-fiction are covered, spanning different genres and types.
Since it's a search engine, browsing for books is almost impossible. The closest thing you can do is use the Authors dropdown in the navigation bar to browse by authors. Even then, you'll have to get used to the terrible user interface of the site overall.
It's better to search instead for a particular book title, author, or synopsis. The Advanced Search lets you narrow the results by language and file extension.
The legality of Library Genesis has been in question since 2015 because it allegedly grants access to pirated copies of books and paywalled articles, but the site remains up and open to the public.
Unlike the other sites on this list, Centsless Books is a curator-aggregator of free Kindle books available on Amazon. Its mission is to make it easy for you to stay on top of all the free ebooks available from the online retailer.
Note that some of the "free" ebooks listed on Centsless Books are only free if you're part of Kindle Unlimited. Unfortunately, Kindle Unlimited might not be worth the money.
Note: Since Centsless Books tracks free ebooks available on Amazon, there may be times when there is nothing listed. If that happens, try again a few days later.
Another of the best free ebook download sites is Project Gutenberg. It's a charity endeavor, sustained through volunteers and fundraisers, that aims to collect and provide as many high-quality ebooks as possible. Most of its library consists of public domain titles, but it has other stuff too if you're willing to look around.
As of this writing, Gutenberg has more than 60,000 free ebooks on offer. They are available for download in EPUB and MOBI formats (some are only available in one of the two), and they can be read online in HTML format.
You can browse the library by category (of which there are hundreds), by most popular (which means total download count), by latest (which means date of upload), or by random (which is a great way to find new material to read).
ManyBooks is a nifty little site that's been around for over a decade. Its purpose is to curate and provide a library of free and discounted fiction ebooks for people to download and enjoy.
Much of its collection was seeded by Project Gutenberg back in the mid-2000s, but it has since taken on an identity of its own with the addition of thousands of self-published works that have been made available at no charge.
Downloads are available in dozens of formats, including EPUB, MOBI, and PDF, and each story has a rating out of five stars.
Feedbooks is a massive collection of downloadable ebooks: fiction and non-fiction, public domain and copyrighted, free and paid. While over 1 million titles are available, only about half of them are free.
The split between "free public domain ebooks" and "free original ebooks" is surprisingly even. A big chunk of the public domain titles are short stories, and a lot of the original titles are fan fiction. Still, if you do a bit of digging around, you'll find some interesting stories.
Most of the ebooks are available in EPUB, MOBI, and PDF formats. They even come with word counts and reading time estimates, if you take that into consideration when choosing what to read.
Between the three major ebook formats—EPUB, MOBI, and PDF—what if you prefer to read in the latter format? While EPUBs and MOBIs have basically taken over, reading PDF ebooks hasn't quite gone out of style yet, and for good reason: PDFs offer universal support across platforms and devices.
If you want to stick to PDFs only, then you'll want to check out PDFBooksWorld. While the collection is small at only a few thousand titles, they're all free and guaranteed to be PDF-optimized. Most of them are literary classics, like The Great Gatsby, A Tale of Two Cities, Crime and Punishment, and so on.
For other formatting issues, we've covered everything you need to convert ebooks between different file types.
Open Library offers an easily searchable directory of all the free ebooks that are available on The Internet Archive. You might be surprised at the number of books available. The total library is pushing towards 1.5 million items.
On the Open Library's homepage, you can readily find the books in which you might be interested thanks to the scrollable categories. Some of the most popular categories include Romance, Kids, and History. You can even find some textbooks lurking in the catalog.
The site is open source and anyone can edit the information available for each book.
Free-Ebooks.net offers thousands of free ebooks. The content is broadly split into six categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance, Sci-Fi, Self Help, and Business.
To be able to download free ebooks from Free-Ebooks.net, you will need to sign up for an account. An account is free to create. Once you have an account, you can download up to five free titles every month.
In addition to English, books are available in dozens of other languages.
If your child is a bookworm, you could find yourself spending masses of cash on new titles. Unless, that is, you find a reliable source of free ebooks for kids. As such, the International Children's Digital Library is a godsend for anyone who has young readers in the house.
Books are available in a variety of lengths and reading difficulty levels. You can even search by criteria that might stimulate kids, such as the color of the cover. Each book is listed in a specific category for easy searching.
Titles are available in four languages: English, Persian, German, and Yiddish.
Don't forget about Amazon Prime. Specifically, Prime Reading, which grants access to thousands of free ebooks in addition to all of the other amazing benefits of Amazon Prime. You can easily get a free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime and start reading today.
The best thing about many free ebooks is that they don't have DRM. This means you aren't limited by how many devices you can read them on. So, what are you waiting for? Grab some free ebooks!
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If you are a bookworm, you know it’s not easy to maintain your book library with new titles constantly releasing every now and then. And, it’s even more troublesome to carry the books around while travelling. Kindles are a great alternative to physical books as they have an e-ink display, last for weeks and can be brought about anywhere. But, what if you cannot afford a Kindle? Well, you can use your smartphone, tablet, or laptop as an e-reader too. Here are some of the best apps where you can read books for free:
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An ideal eBook reader should at least have these five features:
Out of the many apps, we have analyzed and brought to you the 7 best apps that are available for download on your device to read books.
Pros: Perhaps the most versatile app. Google Play Books supports most of the formats, including EPUB. It supports PDF uploading as well, which means you can directly upload to the app and read books from third-party websites. Additionally, the app allows you to make changes to the text and colour attributes, view the book’s original pages, add a bookmark, and even hear the book read aloud. The Google Play Books also come with dark mode, an offline dictionary, and an option to enlist the volume keys to turn pages. All in all, it is a wonderful app. You can also get free classics right on the app, and during sales, you can pick up many books for free.
Cons: The biggest con of Google Play Books is, once you upload a book, it takes a lot of time to process. Also, there is no support for Amazon books or .MOBI format.
Pros: It’s rated to be the best eBook app out there. Much like Google Play Books, the Amazon Kindle app also allows users to customize font, text size, colour, and line spacing. In addition to this, the app lets you mark and annotate text passages, use an X-ray feature to get more details on characters and other elements, and also bookmark your current page. Additionally, if you need the definition of a certain word, simply highlight it to see a dictionary or Wikipedia entry pop up on your screen with its meaning. You can also sync your data with Goodreads. Amazon provides a ton of free books and classics. Apart from this, during sales, you can get eBooks for as low as Rs 49. 
Cons: That said, the app has a few shortcomings. Firstly, the Amazon Kindle app is entirely tied up with the Amazon store, which means you have to be logged in to your Amazon account all the time. Secondly, the eBook reader app does not allow you to directly upload third-party books. There are some workarounds, but they are a little tricky to use and don’t offer support for cloud sync. All the books from third-party websites will stay locally on your device.
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Pros: It is a built-in reader for eBooks and audiobooks for Apple devices. You can download the books within the bookstore as well as upload your own eBooks and PDFs to the app. Besides that, the Apple Books comes with the option to adjust font type and size, theme, and brightness, as well as bookmark pages, annotate text and make notes. You can turn on the scrolling view to scroll down to read the book instead of swiping left from the app’s settings. Pressing down on a word gives you the option to copy it, look for its meaning, highlight, make a note of it, search for it through the book, or share it with someone else. The Apple Books also has a search feature that takes you to a specific word or page number. Apple does provide free classics, and occasionally, surprises readers with free books.
Cons: The biggest downside of Apple books is that its limited availability. The app is only available in the app store for iOS, iPadOS and the recent M1 series Macs. Also, there are fewer features compared to full-fledged readers like the Amazon Kindle.
Pros: Oodles books is another excellent app for reading books. It offers a range of eBooks as well as audiobooks for free. You can also import and read your books on the app. Other features of Oodles Books include bookmarks, dictionaries, and the ability to share a particular text, as well as change the font size, dark theme, and simple navigation. The app is ad-supported; however, you can get rid of them with a premium account, which costs Rs 300 a year. 
Cons: The disadvantages of this app include ads, which could easily annoy an avid reader. Also,  the user interface is pretty outdated. It looks like you are using this app on a 5-year-old phone.
Pros: Moon+ Reader is a unique app in terms of its design. It has a scrolling feature like a web page for navigation. The app also has an auto-scrolling feature so you can read hands-free. In addition to this, there are tons of customization options such as 10+ themes support, a Real page turning effect with adjustable speed/colour/transparency, 5-page flip animations, and much more. The Moon+ Reader supports sync and has over 60,000 eBooks from Project Gutenberg available for free. The app is also localised in 42 languages, giving access to a wider range of audiences. All the basic functions such as Highlight, Annotation, Dictionary (Offline or Online, support Google), Translation, and Share are available.
Cons: As for the disadvantages, the app’s availability. The Moon+ Reader is only available on Android mobile phones. Other than that, the UI could be slightly confusing for new users at times. There also isn’t wide support for EPUB 3, which supports both audio and video. Not to mention that the PDF reader is only available on the pro version, which is disappointing.
Pros: If you are a fan of comics, then Comics by ComiXology is the stop for you. The app has many free comics for you to read and a smart lists feature that automatically sorts your collection by purchase. It also recommends new comics based on your reading history. The Comics by ComiXology also has a built-in guided view that scrolls automatically and scales the comic according to the length of the page. Some other features of the app include a vast collection of manga, graphic novels, and digital comics from publishers like Marvel, Image, and DC. Additionally, while reading, you can use the app’s features like brightness control, zoom, reading modes, and direction, to enhance your overall experience. The app supports .cbz and .cbr files as well, which you can download directly from the store if it is DRM-free. 
Cons: The cons of Comics by ComiXology are slightly peculiar. You can’t let friends borrow issues in your library, and you can’t purchase comics directly from the iOS app.
Pros: This app lets you read books downloaded from the Kobo store as well as imported from your device, in PDFs or EPUBs format. This app provides many books for free and you get good ones during sales at a very low price. Regarding the app’s features, tap the screen, and a series of icons appear on the lower right. From here, you can play with the font style and size, layout, and theme. You can also opt to use the volume keys to turn each page and tweak the page transition. Highlighting a word retrieves its definition or allows you to annotate it. You can also bookmark a page and view a list of chapter headings and other details.
Cons: There aren’t many disadvantages to this app. It’s mostly good; however, The UI could benefit from a little polish. There are some noticeable lags in the app and the book library is a bit limited.

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Did you know 90% of the global internet population is using a mobile device to go online?
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