Abbott ePublishing Re-Launches, Adds Line of Free eBooks

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Friday, June 3, 2011

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Abbott ePublishing Re-Launches, Adds Line of Free eBooks

Abbott ePublishing, publisher of affordable, original electronic books, has re-launched and has announced a new line of free eBooks to compliment its inventory of affordable titles.

The site, http://www.abbottepub.com, which first launched in March, 2009, got an update that will allow it to offer more to its customers, says owner Stephen Abbott.

"The site is sleeker, it has more eBooks than ever, and, for the first time, offers nearly a dozen FREE eBooks to our customers,” he said. “Some are heavily edited public domain or out-of-print works. All are ‘value-added,’ and include wonderful cover art, great editing, and some very nice fonts that add to the texture of each eBook.”

Titles offered for free include Marcus Aurelius’ “Meditations,” works by Thomas Jefferson and Sun Tzu, the Roman philosopher Seneca, and the classic “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill. For the full list, see http://www.abbottepub.com/free.html.

Abbott ePublishing features a varied and growing list of titles, in subjects as varied as religion, history, politics, fiction and literature, self-improvement, philosophy, business, and biographies.

The site is seeking unpublished authors to expend its inventory.

The publisher prides itself on offering affordable eBooks, most under $5, in an age when major online booksellers charge an average of $12 for electronic books.

Abbott ePublishing publishes eBooks in .PDF (Adobe’s Portable Document Format) and in Mobipocket, which are compatible with the vast majority of e-readers.

Abbott ePublishing is a division of Abbott Media, a New England-based publisher of downloadable, affordable electronic books (eBooks) in various formats. They can be found online at abbottepub.com.

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EXCITING eBook: A New Calendar for The World

A New Calendar for The World
NEW from Abbott ePublishing 

Now, exclusively from Abbott ePublishing, comes a book offering creative new changes that would revolutionize the calendar.

You'll read about the hysteria in 2012 about the "end" of the Maya Long Count Calendar inspired a new look at our Western calendar, which, after nearly 500 years, is outdated, confusing and seemingly out-of-sync with how we live today.


This eBook will inspire you with the tenacity and genius of would-be calendar reformers and their often brilliant ideas.

You'll read why past calendar reforms have failed, including those of the French and Soviets, and will learn how the history of calendar reform has been fraught with frustration as well as inspiration.

You'll read about new calendar concepts, including:

• The 13-Moon Calendar: Inspired by the Maya
• The Symmetry454 Calendar: Beautiful Symmetry
• The 13-month "Sol" Calendar: Updating an Old Idea
• The New Earth Calendar: A Worthy Hybrid
• The 30x11 Calendar: A Gentle Update of our Calendar

PLUS, you'll explore MANY incredibly creative, experimental "out-of-the-box"calendar reform proposals like the Metric Calendar, the Pentacontad Calendar practiced by the ancient Mesopotamians in the 3rd Millennium BCE, the 17-Month "Tree" Calendar, and the Fortnight Calendar.

These ALONE will inspire hours of creative discussion!

This EXTRAORDINARY eBook is offered in Adobe PDF and Mobipocket formats (both of which are usable in many, many eReaders and handhelds) for the low price of

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Oil Rig Company’s “Safety” Bonuses Generate PR Nightmare

By Stephen Abbott, Abbott PR

It read like a late April Fool’s Day joke. The company investigators say bore a great deal of responsibility for the Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster that resulted in the most horrific oil spill in history awarded its executives BONUSES for their performance in 2010. For having its “BEST YEAR” for SAFETY.

Yes, it was true. According to the company’s annual proxy statement, which was issued April 1, it had given $19.5 million in bonuses for attaining “115% of its target” for safety in 2010.

The story broke internationally on Monday, April 4, and the ramifications were huge. The company was savaged online, in the print media, and on network and cable news channels for their hubris and audacity, equaled only by the Libyan leader’s creation of an annual “Muammar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights.”

The claim was that, other than that huge oil spill (which the company blames on British Petroleum employees) it had leaked very little oil at all last year.

That’s kind of like saying, “other than that iceberg thing at the end, the trip on the Titanic was very safe!”

The bonuses were even more nonsensical considering that in 2009, the company withheld all executive bonuses after incurring four fatalities that year, "to underscore the company's commitment to safety,” reported the Wall Street Journal.

By the following day, the company announced that some of the bonus money would be put into a fund for the 11 who died on the April 20, 2010 explosion when BP’s Macondo well blew out.

But few were satisfied with this concession.

"Some companies just don't get it," said William Reilly, former co-chair of the presidential commission that investigated the disaster. "I think Transocean just doesn't get it."

THE PR TAKEAWAY:

Sometimes PR people must be the “Jiminy Cricket” of corporate boards, and not only mention what a HORRIFIC PR disaster a move like this would be, but how morally reprehensible it would be, not to mention how inconsistent it would be with past policy.

The continuing failure of corporate America to see public relations as a management function is detrimental, and this is just one more example of that failure.

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Stephen Abbott is the principal of Abbott PR. For more information, contact AbbottPR.com

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Advent Messages of Hope for Harried and Hurting People

Just published by Abbott ePubilshing: "Advent Messages of Hope for Harried and Hurting People" by Patricia Cole Williams

During the Christmas season, it's easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of shopping, wrapping presents and baking cookies that one forgets the true meaning of the holiday - to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.

The Advent season is designed to refocus our lives on Christ. In this beautiful and moving eBook, Patricia Cole Williams presents a detailed package of prayers meditations that do just that.

From the introduction:

"Frankly, the whole idea of the holidays is so exhausting to many people that they dread what should be the most wonderful time of the year. Instead of looking forward in eager hope and exultant expectation, people are grumpy, unhappy, broke, focused on everything that’s wrong in their lives and families and the world. Really, it’s just too much for most of us. Many people would rather skip the holidays. Or they manage to soldier through, knowing that eventually January will come, bringing with it calm and ordinary days. I propose we stop."

This wonderful eBook is just $1.99!

Buy here: http://www.abbottepub.com/advent.html (Available in .pdf format. Kindle-ready. Readable on your desktop or laptop with a free eBook reader from Adobe.)

Abbott ePublishing is a publisher of interesting, affordable electronic books. They can be found online at abbottepub.com.

My first fiction work, published by Abbott ePublishing

I'm proud to announce the publication of my first fiction book with Abbott ePublishing, Short Journeys: Flash Fiction by Stephen Abbott.

Short Journeys is a collection of flash fiction stories featuring strange abilities, and how the protagonists deal with them, stories of the paranormal and otherworldly, time travel, and (a favorite subject of this author) people who can live for an extraordinarily long time.

You’ll also be treated to a mystery for you to solve and more than a few that plumb the depths of human terror.

Most of these 18 works are “Flash Fiction” stories, here defined as constituting stories of either exactly 500 or 750 words in length.

But as a bonus, a short-short story of mine, The Cell, is included an appendix. It is a bit longer than the others, and is set to be adapted into an upcoming short novel I'm writing.

The eBook is being offered for the rather incredible introductory low price of $2.49, and is available in Adobe .pdf and Mobipocket editions. It's Kindle-ready, readable on most handheld devices.

Buy here: http://www.abbottepub.com/fiction.html.