SelfTOT wants to thank the men and women serving our country. Our young adult novel, Warrior's Daughter, is about a teenage girl whose father gets deployed to Iraq. The story explores many of the daily life-struggles the families of deployed service personnel experience. The staff and writers at SelfTOT want to share this story with any military family for free, as a small token of our appreciation for your sacrifice. Simply send us an email with your name, the name of your family member that's serving, where they're deployed to and you return email address, and we'll email you a free download copy of the Warrior's Daughter audiobook to listen to and enjoy as a family.
email your info to: staff@selftot.com and put "military family" in the subject box.
THANK YOU!
SelfTOT.com is looking for quality educational materials. If you are a teacher and/or educational materials developer, we would love to talk with you about listing and selling your educational products on our website. If you're anything like us, you've been developing unique, effective educational material for your on-campus and web-students for years. And, I'm guessing, in the back of your mind you've concluded that hundreds (possibly thousands) of other educators could probably benefit from your years of pedagogy and curriculum development. Even though we all know that we don't necessarily go into education for the money, perhaps you've wondered if you could profit from some of your ideas and hard-work, but have been unsure how to go about it.
In fact, there's a HUGE market for your educational materials, books, study-guides and etc., and SelfTOT just might be the conduit you need to get your stuff out there. We have high internet visibility and e-commerce/transactional functionality. Best of all, our company is staffed and owned by teachers.
Interested? Great! Shoot me an email: staff@selftot.com Please put "submission consideration" in the subject space,
or call me: Shawn Easley, VP Ops, SelfTOT at: 949-682-8448.
When I was growing up print-shops like Quick Print and Kopy Kat were nearly as common as 7-11s. In an era of budding entrepreneurism, everyone needed letter-head, brochures (so-called tri-folds), business cards, etc. However, by the late 1980s, desktop publishing took-off and the copy/printing services retailers were gone almost overnight. Personal computing has had a similar effect on many other industries: design, photography (video), music recording; and when coupled with the internet to delivery these types of goods and services, an entire new business model was born.
An article in the NYT titled, Math of Publishing Meets e-Book, Tuesday, March 2, 2010, (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/business/media/01ebooks.html?em) explores the costs and market-share of this nascent technology. Here at SelfTOT, we're bringing the associated digital savings to our customers by offering much of our catalogue as digital downloads. (We're currently featuring our two bestsellers, Warrior's Daughter and Run From Diablo; more will be released in the coming weeks. The Books, AudioBooks and Study Guides are bundled into one deep discounted download price of $9.95 per title.) At the time, our downloadable books are simply sent as PDFs via email. Our customers do not need to purchase an expensive e-Book reader like Kindle, rather, they simply open the downloaded email, and then have the choice of printing it (or burn the audiobook MP3s into CDs) or, as we imagine most will do, reading/listening directly from the screen.
Eulogizing printed books and CDs would be premature. But offering digitized products as a low-cost, environmentally conscientious and portable alternatives to traditionally produced media is sure to take-off in a big way.
Being "self taught" doesn't have to mean learning alone. Being taught with the help of Selftot's audiobooks means learning to read and comprehend better through actively reading by being read to. That's the way most of us were taught in the first-place; sitting in the laps of our parents. Selftot's "self taught" teaching strategy has developed with this basic concept as its foundation.