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The Award was granted to Marilyn Tam as author of LIVING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS, on Saturday evening, August 20, 2011 in the category of inspirational/visionary non-fiction. The book was also nominated in the categories of self help non-fiction and psychology non-fiction. When informed of the award , Waterside Press Publisher, William Gladstone commented,” Marilyn deserves this award. Living the Life of Your Dreams was written as a way for Marilyn to share with others the secrets that have enabled her to not only live the life of her dreams but to help millions of people in their life journeys.”

Mr. Gladstone additionally stated,”Waterside has been at the forefront of many developments in book publishing and we are heartened that Waterside Press’ focus on immediate time to market for short as well as full length books is now available to our clients. The world of book publishing is changing rapidly and authors, agents and publishers need to offer multiple rapid venues for publishing their works. To win an award with our very first publication is gratifying and indicates that our new rapid to market publishing model will be successful for authors and their readers.”

For additional information about author Marilyn Tam please go to http://www.marilyntam.com/about.html , For information about LIVING THE LIFE OF YOUR DREAMS go to http://www.marilyntam.com/books.html . For information about the global ebook awards go to www.awardsforbooks.com. For information about Waterside Productions Inc and Waterside Press, please use the menu options at the top of the page.

Waterside Productions is a leading global Literary Agency and a major force in books internationally.

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Who makes money on non-fiction any more?

The truth is, there’s a new information product BOOM going on right now on the Internet. And authors who package their information in the right ways are able to make huge profits from their work. It’s important to understand that nowadays, the book is not the only way, or even the most important way to package your information. Imagine if you could take the same information you would use to write a fourteen dollar book — and produce a product that fetches two hundred dollars!

That’s what the new information boom is all about — packaging instructional information in ways that go “beyond the book.” Online courses, webinars, teleseminar series, live webcasts, group coaching…these are the new ways of packaging information — and the income potential is greater than ever before.

Let’s look at some numbers. In the old days, if you packaged your information as a book, you might get $1 to $3 per book sold as the author. If you sold 10,000 copies, you might make $30,000 at best.

If you were to package the information in a video course, you might be able to sell that product for $99 online. If you sold only 1000 courses, your income potential is almost $100,000. Subtract anywhere from $2,000 to $5,000 for the production and delivery systems and another HALF as payouts to your sales partners…and you’re still way ahead of the old model at more than $40,000 profit. And you can still write and publish that book as essential reading for your course participants!

Of course, this is just a hypothetical example, but the point is clear: How you package and deliver your content has changed and new opportunities have opened up for authors that make this a boom time for information products and savvy authors.

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Bill Gladstone, President of Waterside Productions, Inc. speaks about the publishing industry, recent changes, and why authors should be optimistic.

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