Shall I Tell You How It’s Done? I know what works. It’s taken years of banging my head against that virtual wall, but I now know how to sell fine-art prints over Internet. I’ ll be happy to share my findings with you. Shall I tell you how it’s done?

Although the VB.Net printer handling has improved immeasurably over that offered by Visual Basic 6 there is still a need to turn to the Windows API in order to monitor a print queue.

My main problem is that I get few orders from within New Zealand. Most of my customers are from overseas, which is great, but why am I not reaching my local market?
- Jean
Books’n'Print

This is a fairly common problem: you have a PC at home and you make some sort of connection over the internet to your server, but your application needs to print to your PC. That would be easier if your PC had a fixed, constant IP address, but your connection is dynamic so it changes.

There are many, many ways to solve this problem. So many, in fact. that I’ll probably miss one or two in this write up. If I do miss something, do let me know: it may help someone else down the line.

If you simply must have a page on your site ranked #1 on some search engine, build one with turnipberries as the keyword. You’ll get a #1 position. And you can proudly show your friends what you have achieved. But if you show it to enough friends, one is bound to ask, “So what?”

Mac OS X Server is an Apple operating system product based on Mac OS X, with the addition of administrative tools and server software. One area in which it differs from Mac OS X is in the configuration of Samba-based services.

We often have the need for simple forms that request certain actions like adding a new user, etc. A simple perl script lets us do this with a web form that then emails the results.

The example here can be modified to meet your needs. The things that you need to know are noted in comments.

“Repurposing” is a great term, isn’t it? When it comes to web writing, repurposing sounds much better than rewriting, redoing, reorganizing, or transforming-print-into-readable-web-text. But unlike most buzzwords, repurposing contains the essence of what good web writers do when they adapt a print document to the web: they change the document substantially so it fulfills a purpose on the web. They alter the print original so it communicates to web readers who read in different ways and for different purposes than print readers do.

This issue is our second one dedicated to the topic of repurposing print documents for the web. In How To Repurpose Print Documents For The Web (archived at http://www.ewriteonline.com/newsletter/issue10R.html), we offered these five questions to help you decide whether your print content is worth the effort repurposing requires:

The big question. Do you submit directly to the publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you? Based on anecdotal evidence I’ve heard, it can work either way. The bottom line is, if a publisher reads what he can sell, he’ll buy it. It doesn’t matter if it comes from an author or an agent. The trick is getting him to read it. That’s always your focus.

The purpose of this article is to consider Print-On-Demand publishing as an alternative for the aspiring author. It has its strengths and its weaknesses. You may well wonder as you begin reading this, but in the end I’m going to say some good things about it.

Actually, “versus” isn’t the best word. The two mediums are different, but they’re not mutually exclusive. Meaning, you can publish the same book in both mediums. In fact, that’s my goal. Each attracts a different group of readers and I want all the readers I can get.