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Signalman Publishing Announces Release of “Searching for America”

Posted on May 25, 2011 by admin

Orlando, FL / May 25, 2011 – Can you imagine living in a United States without a Constitution? The rule of law? Peace, stability and opportunity for all? This is the unsettling and even terrifying world in which we find ourselves in R. Thomas Roe’s third novel, Searching for America. In a frightening look at our possible future, Roe explores what could happen by extending out the current trends of runaway government debt and disregard for the U.S. Constitution.

In Searching for America, we follow civil servant Stuart Martin as he is ripped away from a comfortable society he thought he knew and understood to a land where thugs are the hunters and the every-day citizen becomes the prey. Chaos reigns, forcing small communities to either band together and take matters into their own hands or perish forever. Law and order needs to be established. Actions need be taken to stop the madness and Stuart is the new man for the job in his community. Together with a group of like-minded neighbors, Stuart organizes defense teams, sets up supply and logistics capabilities and even a legal system that serves as the only government possible in a country that has collapsed from its own weight of debt and economic mismanagement.

Searching for America perfectly illustrates the consequences that could result for the United States where everyone seems out to “get theirs” and forget about anyone else. National debt? That is someone else’s problem. In Searching for America, Roe brings to life with an unimaginable horror what could happen if current trends continue.

Searching for America (ISBN: 978-1-935991-07-6, Trade Paper, 472 pages, $17.99, Fiction/Action & Adventure) from indie book publisher Signalman, is distributed through Ingram and available wherever fine books are sold.

About R. Thomas Roe

Mr. Roe is an award winning author who resides in Florida and has practiced law for forty years. His other novels include The Gaelic Letters and Palm Beach Gold.

About Signalman Publishing

Signalman Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Kissimmee, Florida. Signalman has a wide range of thought-provoking literature from non-fiction titles on economics and military strategy to literary fiction.

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Media contact:
Joel Ramnaraine
Phone: (407) 343-4853
Email: info@signalmanpublishing.com
http://www.signalmanpublishing.com

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“Get the Job You Want in IT: Insider Strategies for a Successful Job Search Campaign” Released now available for the Kindle, Nook, and in the iBookstore

Posted on May 3, 2011 by admin

Orlando, FL / May 3, 2011 – Signalman Publishing announces today that its title, Get the Job You Want in IT: Insider Strategies for a Successful Job Search Campaign by Ian O’Sullivan and John McClure is now available for the Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble nook and through the Apple iBookstore for e-readers everywhere.

This relevant and practical book for IT professionals is very timely considering today’s tight job market—which extends even to the once hot fields within Information Technology. With layoffs over the past couple of years along with a reluctance by corporations to hire, today’s IT professionals feel the need to improve their job hunting skills in order to gain an edge as they embark on what they hope to be a successful job search campaign.

With decades of experience as managers in corporate IT shops, Ian O’Sullivan and John McClure reveal the insider strategies that will help IT professionals in today’s job marketplace gain that edge going into their search campaigns. “I see too many folks coming into interviews still not getting it,” explains co-author Ian O’Sullivan. “They make fundamental mistakes that potentially cost them a job offer.” O’Sullivan continued.

Co-author John McClure added, “We wrote this book to help those already in the IT field, or those who are looking to be hired in IT better understand what IT managers are looking for when they are making decisions on who can fill an open position.”

O’Sullivan and McClure have teamed up in this useful guide to help their colleagues discover and employ proven strategies to land the job that they want in the Information Technology field. Get the Job You Want in IT outlines a simple 12 step process for conducting a successful job search campaign. Many people are looking either to enter the IT field or, if they are already employed, looking to make a change. This book walks the candidate through each step of the process from determining their own skills, talents, and strengths, to understanding the inner workings of an IT shop to the critical steps of networking, resumes, interviewing, and compensation negotiation.

About the Authors

Ian O’Sullivan has more than twenty years experience in the Information Technology field including extensive management and leadership positions with Fortune 500 companies in the areas of application development and solution delivery. As a Technology Management Consultant, Ian implemented software construction best practices optimizing product quality, reliability and timeliness for major U.S. corporations. Ian is an expert at building and leading successful teams in delivering enterprise level software solutions.

John McClure has twelve years experience in corporate America as an IT manager encompassing most of the functions of an IT shop including software development and solution delivery, project and product management, and network systems and infrastructure support including enterprise help desk management. John has a Master’s Degree in Information Systems from Hawaii Pacific University.

About Signalman Publishing

Signalman Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Kissimmee, Florida. Signalman has a wide range of thought-provoking literature from non-fiction titles on economics and military strategy to literary fiction. To learn more about Signalman Publishing, visit www.signalmanpublishing.com.

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Signalman Partners with Reasons to Believe on Beyond the Cosmos

Posted on December 10, 2010 by admin

MEDIA ADVISORY, Dec. 10 /Christian Newswire/ — From the author of numerous books on recent scientific discoveries and how they point to the biblical Creator comes the classic, “Beyond the Cosmos”, in the popular Amazon Kindle format. In this book Dr. Hugh Ross, astronomer and founder of Reasons To Believe, a science-faith think tank in Glendora, California, presents the story behind a spectacular breakthrough: discovery that there’s more to the universe than just the familiar four dimensions of space and time. It now appears the universe began with six additional space dimensions that ceased expanding while the cosmos was still infinitesimally small.

“A universe of ten dimensions carries profound implications,” Ross says. “The One who brought such a universe into existence has capacities exceeding the limits of what’s possible even in as many as ten dimensions.” Thoughtful consideration of these capacities sheds new light on theological doctrines over which people have battled for centuries–the Trinity, predestination and free will, heaven and hell, and more. Ross guides the lay reader through these concepts in an understandable way while profoundly expanding their awareness of God’s awesome power and love.

“It has been very exciting to work with Dr. Ross and his excellent staff at Reasons To Believe to bring this important work to Kindle readers,” states John McClure, president of Signalman Publishing. “Now that Kindle has expanded internationally, we feel it is even more timely to bring works like ‘Beyond the Cosmos’ to Christian readers and others who are seeking to know more about the nature of God,” McClure adds.

The Kindle from Amazon is an e-book reader that has been gaining popularity, with an estimated 3 million units sold to-date. Readers can download “Beyond the Cosmos” from the Kindle Store on Amazon.com. Those with an iPhone can now read Kindle books using one of the iPhone’s newest applications.

About Signalman Publishing
A unit of Kissimmee, Florida-based Signalman Enterprises, LLC, Signalman Publishing is an electronic book publisher with a mission to bring classics of non-fiction literature to the Kindle reader through the Amazon.com portal.
Contact: Urmila McClure, 407-343-4853

About Reasons To Believe
Founded in 1986 by Hugh and Kathy Ross, Reasons To Believe (RTB) seeks to show the world that science and faith are, and always will be, allies, not enemies. RTB actively communicates this life-changing truth to believers and skeptics alike.

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Signalman and Living Stone Books Partner to Produce Wisdom of Proverbs for the Kindle and the Nook

Posted on December 6, 2010 by admin

Orlando Florida/Dec 6, 2010 — Signalman Publishing and Living Stone Books have continued their partnership in bringing quality Christian literature to e-readers everywhere. Wisdom of Proverbs by Bob Beasley has just been produced and released to the Amazon Kindle Store and the Barnes & Noble nook store.

Wisdom of Proverbs provides readers with an excellent opportunity to read God’s word with guidance, insight and understanding from the author’s own study and experiences. Based on the Mr. Beasley’s seven years of intensive study of the book of Proverbs—the wisdom literature from the Bible—this book offers exceptional guidance and counsel on how to live right with one’s family, neighbors, and with God. Full of practical advice as well as understanding of the nature of God, Wisdom of Proverbs is an excellent in-depth guide for pastors and Bible students in addition to anyone interested in this powerful book of the Bible.

“It was truly a pleasure to work on this project,” stated John McClure, president of Signalman Publishing.  “Bob Beasley has insight into the book of Proverbs like no one I have ever heard or read before; and personally, reading this book has helped me in my own walk,” McClure continued.

Wisdom of Proverbs was first released in 2000 by Legacy Press.

About Signalman Publishing
A unit of Kissimmee, Florida based Signalman Enterprises, LLC, Signalman Publishing is an electronic book publisher with a mission to bring non-fiction classics to e-book readers everywhere.

About Bob Beasley
Bob Beasley is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College and served as an Army officer before beginning his career in the real estate industry. He began in the commercial brokerage business and later developed residential properties in California, Texas, and Florida. Since being called to Christ in 1971, Bob has been involved in teaching Bible studies in his church, speaking at retreats and conferences, and teaching several businessmen’s Bible studies. He is a graduate of Westminster Theological Seminary, and currently resides in Asheville, NC.

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Media contact:  John McClure
Phone: (407) 343-4853
Email: info@signalmanpublishing.com
Signalman Publishing website:  www.signalmanpublishing.com

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The Gaelic Letters Wins Royal Palm Literary Award

Posted on October 27, 2010 by admin

Orlando, FL / October 27, 2010 – The Florida Writer’s Association announced that The Gaelic Letters has won second place in the Thriller/Suspense category of the prestigious Royal Palm Literary awards.  The Gaelic Letters is the debut novel by Irish-American author R. Thomas Roe who draws upon his background in family history research and the legal profession to weave an intense story of intrigue as the main character travels to Ireland to unravel a family mystery. Mr. Roe stated that he was honored to receive the Royal Palm Literary award from the Florida Writer’s Association and appreciates all the great comments he has received on his first novel.

The Gaelic Letters follows retired attorney Quinn Parker as he traces his roots through the libraries of Georgia, Minnesota, and Utah, and then eventually to Ireland. His curiosity is peaked when he discovers a collection of old letters written in the ancient Irish language of Gaelic while rummaging around his mother’s basement after she recently passed away. When he finds someone who can properly translate these letters, he realizes that there is a whole side of his family that has remained in Ireland, straddling the line between the political conflict and becoming wealthy in the process. This family drama reaches its height as Quinn unravels the layers, exposing secrets that had been viciously protected for over a century.

Roe’s novel is a first-class drama that reveals the flawed motives of every individual concerned. Any family has drama, but this family’s is built on a century of deception that is about to crumble in front of everyone with deadly results. Roe is clearly an expert in the field of family research and, with a mastery of dialog, he is able to bring together a story that will certainly entertain as well as disturb.

The Gaelic Letters (ISBN: 978-0-9840614-4-0, Trade Paper, 409 pages, $17.99, Literary Fiction) from indie book publisher Signalman, is distributed through Ingram and available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever fine books are sold.

About R. Thomas Roe
Mr. Roe resides along the ocean in Florida and in the mountains of Colorado. He has served 26 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a full Colonel. He enjoys associations with various Irish-American groups and is an avid reader and mountain biker.

About Signalman Publishing
Signalman Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Kissimmee, Florida. Signalman has a wide range of thought-provoking literature from non-fiction titles on economics and military strategy to literary fiction.

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Media contact:
John McClure
Phone: (407) 343-4853
Email: info@signalmanpublishing.com
http://www.signalmanpublishing.com

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E-Book Fans Keep Format in Spotlight

Posted on October 22, 2010 by admin

By BRAD STONE

Sales are down this year, despite prominent books by Dan Brown and Edward M. Kennedy. Wal-Mart and Amazon are locked in a war for e-commerce dominance, creating new worries among publishers and authors about dwindling profits.

But amid the gloom, some sellers and owners of electronic reading devices are making the case that people are reading more because of e-books.

Amazon for example, says that people with Kindles now buy 3.1 times as many books as they did before owning the device. That factor is up from 2.7 in December 2008. So a reader who had previously bought eight books from Amazon would now purchase, on average, 24.8 books, a rise from 21.6 books.

“You are going to see very significant industry growth rates as a result of the convenience of this kind of reading,” said Jeffrey P. Bezos, chief executive of Amazon.

Sony, maker of the Reader family of devices, says that its e-book customers, on average, download about eight books a month from its online library. That is far more than the approximately 6.7 books than the average American book buyer purchased for the entire year in 2008, according to Bowker, a publishing industry tracking firm.

The e-reader market also has a new competitor, the Nook, introduced by Barnes & Noble on Tuesday. It will sell for $259.

The book-buying numbers at Amazon and Sony may not by themselves indicate a new interest in reading. Owners of Kindles may be shifting all their book purchases to Amazon. Owners of e-book devices tend to be among the most passionate book buyers, so their behavior may not be reflective of the overall market.

Even so, fans of the reading devices suggest that the convenience of using these products, which offer a sense of control and customization that consumers have come to expect from all their media gadgets, has created a greater interest in books.

Patti Howard is among the converted. “It’s been a long time since I felt this way about books,” said Ms. Howard, a medical transcriptionist from Birmingham, Ala., who for years confined her book reading to 10 minutes before bed until she got an Amazon Kindle in August.

Ms. Howard now buys books any time she wants. She recently downloaded a fantasy novel at 2:30 a.m., immediately after finishing the previous book in a series. She reads during her snippets of daily downtime, like during the wait to pick up her 9-year-old son from school. Her new reading pace is one novel a week.

Other fans praise the benefits of e-book devices. The Kindle and Sony Reader, with their gray-and-white screens and adjustable type sizes, offer a satisfying experience with few of the distractions of other technologies.

Multiple books can also be carried in a slender device, so a reader can easily switch from Kate Morton’s “The Forgotten Garden” to Blake Bailey’s “Cheever: A Life.”

E-books can also be bought quickly and from any location, with one or two clicks on devices like the Kindle and the Nook, which use wireless networks to download books.

Brandon Watson, a researcher at Microsoft and the father of three, says he has gone from reading about a book a month to recently polishing off a book the size of Malcolm Gladwell’s “Outliers” every weekend.

He is taken by the ease of one-handed reading on the Kindle. Last month he bought the digital version of “The Bourne Identity,” even though he had the actual 500-page book in his home, because “for whatever reason, it feels cumbersome to read,” he said.

That point resonates with Candy Yates, a loan officer assistant in Newland, N.C. Ms. Yates owns a computer, a BlackBerry, and an iPod Touch and calls herself a “gadget person.” She says that paper books just feel strange to her, even though she was an avid reader as a child.

The nearest bookstore is also 30 miles away in Boone, and the collection at the local library does not interest her, she said. The Kindle cannot pick up a wireless signal in her home town, but she can plug it into her PC and buy books online.

Such testimonials do not persuade everyone. Many book publishing executives say that e-book sellers like Amazon have a strong interest in heralding a new age of reading, because they must persuade skeptical publishers that a higher sales volume of e-books will offset the eventual loss of profit if the most popular digital editions continue to be sold for $9.99. For now, sellers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble subsidize that price.

Some publishers are also not quite willing to accept the notion that books can make a mainstream resurgence.

“Given the fact that people now have the Internet, almost 24-hour football entertainment in the fall, tennis matches from around the world, TV shows out the wazoo, and movies, do you really believe that people are going to be reading more because they can get it on a screen?” said John Sargent, chief executive of Macmillan, owner of imprints like Farrar, Straus and Giroux and St. Martin’s Press. “I don’t see the scenario.”

The music industry, which stumbled badly during its transition to digital formats, also offers lessons. E-book piracy does not yet constitute a major problem in the United States, but there are warning signs.

Shayna Englin, a political consultant in Washington who purchased a Kindle this year, also says she reads more than ever: a book a week, about three times her old pace.

But she has actually never paid for an e-book. Exploiting a loophole in Amazon’s system, Ms. Englin has linked her Kindle to the Amazon account of some nearby friends, allowing all of them to read books like “The Lost Symbol” at the same time — while paying for them only once.

“I read much more, I tend to read faster for some reason, and I read a greater variety of things,” said Ms. Englin, adding that this is nearly the same as lending a physical book to friends. “We haven’t really looked closely at Amazon’s terms of service. But I do suspect we are breaking the rules.”

Motoko Rich contributed reporting.

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Price Drop Announced for the Kindle2 Along with a New International Wireless Feature

Posted on October 7, 2010 by admin

SEATTLE—October 7, 2009—Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that it is lowering the price of its #1 bestseller Kindle to $259, down from $299.  Also today, Amazon.com introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices—Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless.  Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless now enables readers to wirelessly download content in over 100 countries and territories.  Readers can pre-order Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless starting today for $279 atwww.amazon.com/kindle and it ships October 19.

“Kindle is the most wished for, the most gifted, and the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items we sell on Amazon, and we’re excited to be able to lower the price,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder and CEO.  “We’re also excited to announce a new addition to the Kindle family—Kindle with global wireless.  At home or abroad in over 100 countries, you can think of a book and download it wirelessly in less than 60 seconds.”

Kindle wirelessly downloads books, newspapers, magazines, blogs, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution 6-inch electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper.  Kindle utilizes the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so you never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot or sync with a PC.   Readers can wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download books in less than 60 seconds, automatically receive newspaper and magazine subscriptions, receive personal documents, and read from their library—now in over 100 countries and territories.

“Kindle has revolutionized the way we purchase and read books, by making it mobile, easy and intuitive,” said Randall Stephenson, chairman and chief executive officer of AT&T.  “We are excited to work with Amazon to help readers access books even faster and from significantly more places than ever before, including more than 100 countries and territories around the world through AT&T’s global wireless coverage.”

The U.S. Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore) now has more than 350,000 books, including New Releases and 104 of 112 New York Times Bestsellers, which are typically $9.99 or less.  More than 75,000 books have been added to the U.S. Kindle Store in just the last five months.  Starting today, Lonely Planet guides are now available in the Kindle Store, joining existing travel guide selection from publishers Rick Steves, Frommers and Michelin.

“Lonely Planet is excited to make a vast selection of travel guides from Australia to Zanzibar available to Kindle customers around the world,” said Lonely Planet CEO Matt Goldberg.  “Travelers can now pack as many Lonely Planet guides as they want into Kindle’s 10.2 ounces and download new guides wirelessly while travelling around the world.”

Over 50 top U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Times (UK), Le Monde, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and the Shanghai Daily are available in the Kindle Store for single purchase or subscription, and can now be delivered wirelessly in over 100 countries and territories.  Over 35 top magazines, such as The Economist, Newsweek, Time, The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, The Atlantic, Forbes, Fortune, PC Magazine, and The New England Journal of Medicine are also available for single purchase or subscription, and can also be delivered wirelessly in the U.S. and abroad.  U.S. Kindle customers can also continue to take advantage of the Kindle Store’s selection of over 7,000 blogs and receive new posts while traveling overseas.

Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless offers customers the same features that have helped make Kindle with U.S. Wireless the #1 bestselling product on Amazon.com, including:

  • Slim and Trim: At just over a third of an inch thin (0.36 inches) and weighing just over 10 ounces, Kindle is pencil thin and lighter than a typical paperback.
  • Reads Like Real Paper: Kindle’s 6-inch electronic ink display reads like printed words on paper because the screen works using real ink and doesn’t use a backlight, eliminating the eyestrain and glare associated with other electronic displays.
  • Stores Up To 1,500 Books: Kindle’s 2 GB of memory holds up to 1,500 books and Kindle books are automatically backed up by Amazon so customers can re-download titles from their library.
  • Read For Weeks On A Single Charge: Kindle’s electronic ink display sips battery power so users can read for over two weeks with wireless turned off and up to four days on a single charge with wireless on.
  • Read-To-Me: With the experimental Text-To-Speech feature, Kindle can read most newspapers, magazines, blogs, and books out loud.
  • Automatically Syncs With Kindle and Kindle Compatible Devices: Amazon’s “Whispersync” technology automatically syncs customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless, Kindle with U.S. Wireless, Kindle DX, and Kindle compatible devices like Kindle for iPhone.
  • Wirelessly Receive and Read Personal Documents: Wirelessly send, receive, and read personal documents in a variety of formats such as Microsoft Word and PDF.
  • Instant Dictionary Lookup: Kindle comes with the New Oxford American Dictionary and over 250,000 definitions that appear instantly at the bottom of the page.
  • Choose Text Size: Kindle lets readers customize their reading preference by providing six different text sizes.
  • Bookmarks, Notes, and Highlights: By using the QWERTY keyboard Kindle users can add annotations to text, as well as highlight and clip key passages and bookmark pages for future use.

Kindle with U.S. & International Wireless will be available for shipment to customers in over 100 countries around the world on October 19.  Media can visit the Kindle Media Room at http://www.amazon.com/pr/kindlefor additional media resources and to request an interview.

About Amazon.com
Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel; Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial.

Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Examples of the services offered by Amazon Web Services are Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon SimpleDB, Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), Amazon Flexible Payments Service (Amazon FPS), Amazon Mechanical Turk and Amazon CloudFront.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk, www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.cn.

As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

Kindle devices are sold through Amazon Digital Services, Inc.

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Soar Beyond the Cosmos Again with Astronomer Hugh Ross

Posted on September 13, 2010 by admin

Orlando, Florida/Glendora, California. September 13, 2010 – From the author of numerous books showing how recent scientific discoveries point to the God of the Bible comes a new edition of his award-winning classic, Beyond the Cosmos.  In this book Hugh Ross, astronomer and founder of Reasons To Believe, tells the story of a dramatic scientific breakthrough: the discovery that there’s more to the universe than just the familiar dimensions of space and time. The cosmos is actually a ten-dimensional system!

“A universe of ten dimensions carries profound theological implications,” Ross says. “The One who brought such a universe into existence has capacities exceeding the limits of what’s possible in all those dimensions.” Thoughtful consideration of these capacities sheds new light on theological doctrines over which people have battled for centuries—the Trinity, predestination and free will, heaven and hell, and more. Ross guides readers through these concepts in a lay-friendly way that promises to stretch your awareness of the Creator’s power and love.

This latest edition of Beyond the Cosmos updates discoveries affirming extra-dimensional physics and string theory, building on earlier support for the biblical account of cosmic origins. As with earlier editions, it offers visual aids to help you understand and appreciate biblical truths that exceed human ability to visualize—truths that set the Bible apart from all other “holy books” in the world. If you seek a fresh, expansive vision of God’s magnificence, a view that will inspire—even supercharge—your worship, this book offers it to you.

Beyond the Cosmos, third edition, is available direct from Reasons To Believe or from your favorite retail or online bookstore. It’s also available from the Kindle Store on Amazon.com. Those with an iPad or iPhone can now read this and other Kindle books using the Kindle reader application.

About Signalman Publishing

Signalman Publishing, a member of the Small Publishers Association of North America, is an independent press specializing in e-books and non-fiction literature that challenge and encourage readers.

About Reasons To Believe

Founded in 1986 by Hugh and Kathy Ross, Reasons To Believe (RTB) bridges the gap between science and faith, showing the world that science and faith are, and always will be, allies, not enemies. RTB actively communicates this life-changing truth to believers and skeptics alike.

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Signalman Announces Release of “Palm Beach Gold”

Posted on August 30, 2010 by admin

Orlando, FL / August 30, 2010 – How sweet life would be if all ethical issues were cut and dried—just hit the “Easy Button” on decision making. Choose the guy in the white hat over the guy in the black hat. Choose the straight-and-narrow path to follow and not the crooked path. However,  those over the age of 35 know things just aren’t that Sesame Street simple. Life is messy.

R. Thomas Roe’s second novel, Palm Beach Gold, follows attorney Jake Fox, who, after working in a large law firm, realizes he has lost something of himself. He decides to strike out on his own in Palm Beach, Florida where he meets a young couple with a growing gold coin business. When the husband suddenly dies in an airplane accident, Jake lands the biggest case of his life. Since Jake is now out on his own, he has to mortgage everything in order to finance the case and bet that it is a winner.  The problem: would his principles survive? His client, the grieving widow, is a knockout, but there is more inside her ambitious mind than meets the eye.

Palm Beach Gold perfectly captures the moral dilemmas that confront most of us at many points in our lives. We work to survive and survive to work, but what is the meaning of it all if we can’t hold true to our inner self and core set of values? Aviation enthusiasts and legal buffs may appreciate the technical accuracy and the level of detail that the author keeps as he relates the story.

Palm Beach Gold (ISBN: 978-0-9840614-9-5, Trade Paper, 330 pages, $16.99, Literary Fiction) from indie book publisher Signalman, is distributed through Ingram and available wherever fine books are sold.

About R. Thomas Roe

Mr. Roe resides along the ocean in Florida and in the mountains of Colorado. He has served 26 years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and retired as a full Colonel. He enjoys associations with various USAF groups and is an avid reader and mountain biker.

About Signalman Publishing

Signalman Publishing is an independent book publisher based in Kissimmee, Florida. Signalman has a wide range of thought-provoking literature from non-fiction titles on economics and military strategy to literary fiction.

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Media contact:
John McClure
Phone: (407) 343-4853
Email: info@signalmanpublishing.com
http://www.signalmanpublishing.com

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Amazon Announces New Generation Kindle

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin

SEATTLE, Jul 28, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — (NASDAQ:AMZN)–Millions of people are already reading on Kindles and Kindle is the #1 bestselling item on Amazon.com for two years running. It’s also the most-wished-for, most-gifted, and has the most 5-star reviews of any product on Amazon.com. Today, Amazon.com is excited to introduce a new generation of Kindle. The all-new Kindle has a new electronic-ink screen with 50 percent better contrast than any other e-reader, a new sleek design with a 21 percent smaller body while still keeping the same 6-inch-size reading area, and a 15 percent lighter weight at just 8.7 ounces. The new Kindle also offers 20 percent faster page turns, up to one month of battery life, double the storage to 3,500 books, built-in Wi-Fi, a graphite color option and more–all for only $189, and still with free 3G wireless–no monthly bills or annual contracts. Also today, Amazon introduced a new addition to its family of portable reading devices–Kindle Wi-Fi. Readers who don’t need the convenience of free 3G wireless can now enjoy the new generation Kindle for the lower price of only $139. The all-new Kindle and Kindle Wi-Fi are now available for pre-order at www.amazon.com/kindle3G and www.amazon.com/kindleWi-Fi, and will ship to customers in over 140 countries and 30 territories beginning August 27.

Kindle offers the largest selection of the most popular books people want to read. The U.S. Kindle Store now has more than 630,000 books, including New Releases and 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 510,000 of these books are $9.99 or less, including 80 New York Times Best Sellers. Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books are also available to read on Kindle. Kindle lets you buy your books once and read them everywhere–on Kindle, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

More than 235,000 books have been added to the Kindle Store in just the last six months, including New York Times Best Sellers “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest,” “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks” and “The Passage.” The Kindle Store also recently added 20 contemporary classics from the Wylie Agency’s new “Odyssey Editions” imprint that are available for the first time as e-books and exclusively in the Kindle Store, including John Updike’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit series, Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita,” Norman Mailer’s “The Naked and the Dead,” Philip Roth’s “Portnoy’s Complaint” and Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man.”

“Kindle is the best-selling product on Amazon for two years running. We lowered the price to $189 and sales growth tripled. Now, we are excited to introduce a new generation Kindle that is smaller, lighter, and faster, with 50 percent better contrast. Readers are going to do a double take when they see Kindle’s bright new screen and feel how remarkably light the smaller 8.7 ounce design feels in one hand,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Founder & CEO. “If you don’t need the convenience of 3G wireless, we have an incredible new price point–$139 for Kindle Wi-Fi. Kindle Wi-Fi has all the same features, same bookstore, same high-contrast electronic paper display, and it’s even a tiny bit lighter at 8.5 ounces. At this price point, many people are going to buy multiple units for the home and family.”

All New, High-Contrast E-Ink Screen, Read in Bright Sunlight: The new Kindle uses Amazon’s all-new electronic ink display with 50 percent better contrast for the clearest text and sharpest images. No other e-reader has this screen or this level of contrast. Unlike LCD screens, Kindle’s paper-like display looks and reads like real paper, with no glare, even in bright sunlight.

New Proprietary Screen Technology–Faster Page Turns, New and Improved Fonts: Kindle’s all-new, high-contrast electronic ink display is further optimized with Amazon’s proprietary waveform and font technology to make pages turn faster and fonts sharper. Waveform is a series of electronic pulses that move black and white electronic ink particles to achieve a final gray level for an image or text. Amazon tuned the new Kindle’s waveform and controller mechanism to make page turning 20 percent faster. In addition, this waveform tuning combined with new hand-built, custom fonts and font-hinting make words and letters more crisp, clear, and natural-looking. Font hints are instructions, written as code, that control points on a font character’s line and improve legibility at small font sizes where few pixels are available. Hinting is a mix of aesthetic judgments and complicated technical strategies. Amazon designed its proprietary font-hinting to optimize specifically for the special characteristics of electronic ink.

New Sleek Design, Lighter Than a Paperback: The new Kindle has a 21 percent smaller body while still keeping the same 6-inch-size reading area. At only 8.7 ounces, the new Kindle is 15 percent lighter and still 1/3 of an inch thin, making it lighter than a paperback and thinner than a magazine. With Kindle you can read comfortably and naturally with just one hand for hours. The new Kindle Wi-Fi is even lighter at just 8.5 ounces.

Double the Storage, Holds 3,500 Books: The new Kindle has double the storage so you can carry up to 3,500 books.

Up To One Month of Battery Life: The new Kindle has up to one month of battery life with wireless off. Keep wireless on and your Kindle will have battery life of up to 10 days.

Free 3G Wireless: Kindle offers free 3G wireless, which means no annual contracts and no monthly fees.

Global Wireless Coverage: Kindle is the only e-reader that lets you travel the globe and still get books in under 60 seconds with wireless coverage in over 100 countries and territories.

New Built-In Wi-Fi: In addition to free 3G wireless, Kindle now has built-in Wi-Fi support. Kindle owners will now be able to connect to Wi-Fi hotspots at home or on the road. Readers who don’t need the convenience of free 3G wireless can purchase the new Kindle Wi-Fi for only $139 and download content over Wi-Fi. Amazon is offering Kindle customers free Wi-Fi access at AT&T Wi-Fi hotspots across the U.S. for shopping and downloading Kindle content–no AT&T registration, sign-in, or password required.

Quieter Page Turn Buttons: Quieter page turns means you can read all night without disturbing your partner.

Share Meaningful Passages: Share meaningful passages with friends and family with built-in Twitter and Facebook integration.

Simple to Use: Kindle is ready to use right out of the box – no setup, no software to install, no computer required.

Books in 60 Seconds: With fast, free wireless delivery, you can start reading books on Kindle in less than 60 seconds.

Massive Selection: The Kindle Store has over 630,000 books, including 109 of 111 New York Times Best Sellers, plus audiobooks, periodicals and blogs.

Free, Out-of-Copyright Books: Over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright, pre-1923 books such as “Pride and Prejudice” are available to read on Kindle.

Low Book Prices: Over 510,000 of the 630,000 books in the Kindle Store are $9.99 or less, including 80 New York Times Best Sellers.

Free Book Samples: First chapters of Kindle books are available to download and read for free before you decide to buy.

Read Everywhere with Whispersync: Kindle books can be read on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off.

Worry-Free Archive: Books purchased from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime.

Improved PDF Reader: The new Kindle uses an improved built-in PDF reader with new dictionary lookup, notes and highlights, and support for password protected PDFs.

New WebKit-based Browser (experimental): The new Kindle uses a new web browser based on the industry-leading open source Web browser engine, WebKit. The updated browser is faster, easier to navigate, and provides a new “article mode” feature that simplifies web pages to just the main text-based content for easier reading. Web browsing with Kindle over 3G or Wi-Fi is free.

New Voice Guide: With Text-to-Speech, Kindle can read out loud to you. New Text-to-Speech enabled menus allow customers to navigate Kindle without having to read menu options. In addition to listening to books aloud, users now have the option of listening to content listings on the home screen, item descriptions, and all menu options.

New Lighted Leather Cover: The all-new Kindle cover features an integrated, retractable reading light that lets you read comfortably anytime, anywhere. The light is a permanent part of the cover, so it’s always with you, and hides away into the cover when not in use. The high-quality LED light illuminates Kindle’s entire paper-like display, adding brightness without adding glare. Amazon’s patent-pending hinge system secures Kindle in place and conducts electricity from Kindle’s battery to the reading light, eliminating the need for batteries. The conductive hinges are gold-plated to ensure a reliable electrical connection. Gold is used because of its ability to make good electrical contact even with low force and for its corrosion resistance. The Kindle cover is sold separately.

Customers can discover full details and pre-order the new Kindle and Kindle Wi-Fi starting today atwww.amazon.com/kindle3G and www.amazon.com/kindleWi-Fi.

For new high-resolution images of the new generation Kindle, visit www.amazon.com/pr/kindle/images.

About Amazon.com

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth’s Biggest Selection. Amazon.com, Inc. seeks to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible prices. Amazon.com and other sellers offer millions of unique new, refurbished and used items in categories such as Books; Movies, Music & Games; Digital Downloads; Electronics & Computers; Home & Garden; Toys, Kids & Baby; Grocery; Apparel, Shoes & Jewelry; Health & Beauty; Sports & Outdoors; and Tools, Auto & Industrial. Amazon Web Services provides Amazon’s developer customers with access to in-the-cloud infrastructure services based on Amazon’s own back-end technology platform, which developers can use to enable virtually any type of business. Kindle and Kindle DX are the revolutionary portable readers that wirelessly download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution electronic ink display that looks and reads like real paper. Kindle and Kindle DX utilize the same 3G wireless technology as advanced cell phones, so users never need to hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. Kindle is the #1 bestselling product across the millions of items sold on Amazon.

Amazon and its affiliates operate websites, including www.amazon.com, www.amazon.co.uk,www.amazon.de, www.amazon.co.jp, www.amazon.fr, www.amazon.ca, and www.amazon.cn. As used herein, “Amazon.com,” “we,” “our” and similar terms include Amazon.com, Inc., and its subsidiaries, unless the context indicates otherwise.

Forward-Looking Statements

This announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Actual results may differ significantly from management’s expectations. These forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that include, among others, risks related to competition, management of growth, new products, services and technologies, potential fluctuations in operating results, international expansion, outcomes of legal proceedings and claims, fulfillment center optimization, seasonality, commercial agreements, acquisitions and strategic transactions, foreign exchange rates, system interruption, inventory, government regulation and taxation, payments and fraud. More information about factors that potentially could affect Amazon.com’s financial results is included in Amazon.com’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and subsequent filings.

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