eBook88.com Webmaster Speaks

http://www.eBook88.com was the second web site developed by me. It had been several years since then - and continues to be doing very well (getting good positioning on Google and more than 20% of my visitors bookmarked the site every month). We also get a constant stream of ebook submits.

I started getting interested in ebooks in the early 2000 when I wrote my first ebook for music teachers. I saw a need for sopranino recorder ebooks because it was close to impossible to find even a print copy! Yes, I was a music teacher at school then and had been in the education field for 20 years. I decided not to charge anything for something I worked day and night for 3 months in addition to paying for the software and hosting to distribute the book. Promoting the teaching of recorder music seems to me more important than anything else and I really didn't want any teachers to pass the book by just because they have to pay for it!

But the effort pays off in other ways ... in the sense that it got me so interested in ebooks that I have decided to design a web site (now ebook88.com site) and learn html coding in the process. Before that, I was "computer phobic" and had zero knowledge in programming - but developing this web site became an obsession and my bookshelves are now filled with programming books (on Javascripts, HTML, CSS, C++), and computer magazines. My interests have widened greatly and so have my skills in IT. I could say it's a "freedom" and it's a blessing because this new found "interest" suddenly opened many opportunities for my career.

I was a silent "behind the scene" manager of this site and had observed so many things that I thought I'll start this blog to communicate my thoughts!