I've sent the following suggestion to both Amazon.com and AARP.
The new amazon.com 'Kindle DX(http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0015TCML0/) Wireless Reading Device, with 9.7" Display', would be helpful to countless seniors who have diminishing vision (the reader also includes audio book capability). I think AARP and Amazon.com should team up to offer a discounted "Senior-Friendly Kindle DX" through AARP. I believe, once the senior community learns about the Kindle DX, the market for this vision-assistance product will expand exponentially. I will be buying one of these for my mother (91 years old) who lives with my wife and I (we are both AARP members). Thank you for considering this idea.
Let's pass along this idea, turn it into a senior's consumer campaign. All of us can benifit: AARP, Amazon.com, the ebook publishing industry, and all us senior citizens. A classic win-win effort!
(Contact AARP, Amazon.com, and ebook publishers with the idea today.)
Last month the Bainbridge Island Chamber Of Commerce hosted a luncheon with speaker presentations on the subject of Social Marketing and Social Networking. Very enlightening for individuals and especially small business owners. You can download my review, including timely tips from this event at: http://www.kavedragenink.com/pdfs/BBC_COCLunch_16Sept09.pdf Special thanks to Shannon Evens (http://practicallocalsearch.com), Jenn Putman (http://www.jennergy.com), and Elizabeth Scott; and to our own B.I.-C.O.C. MC, Kevin Dwyer! You small business entrepreneurs, consider joining your local C.O.C. -- a great place to meet your working community.
The KillWare Chronicles, Book III - "The Accidental Prisoner" - is finished. Polishing draft, pooling input from faithful readers, final draft should be ready by end of month, then off to press. Watch for it. Coming soon to a dump near you!
For over ten years I have been the managing editor of Scandia Patch Press, Poulsbo, WA. What started as a local 10 acre farm has become a steadily growing small press that uses Print On Demand technology and the Internet to reach a worldwide customer base. "Scandia Patch Press brings together the realms of folk art and local American history in order to preserve unique perspectives of common life." On 12 July 2009, owner and founder of Scandia Patch Press, Dwight R. Droz (1912-2009), passed away peacefully. Go to scandiapatchpress.com for "Midnight Obituary for The Midnight Poet - Dwight R. Droz ".
Working on the final book of the The KillWare Chropnicles, book III "The Accidental Prisoner" -- here at the secret cabin, Lake Chelan. Jan is here too, writing and painting (or drawing, to be technical). Hope to finish the first draft! The God of serious art...and not so serious?...only knows. Back in town mid-July. Stay tuned!
