All Discussions Tagged 'a' - The Book Marketing Network2024-03-29T04:59:12Zhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/forum/topic/listForTag?tag=a&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe power of thinkingtag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2016-02-09:523145:Topic:6764982016-02-09T11:16:07.177ZLars Anderssonhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/LarsAndersson
<p>I had a magical experience!</p>
<p>I was sharing my profiles and book pages to one of my author friends here from Sweden and I thought I got all sites to her. </p>
<p>After a while, I found in my thoughts that have this page also but there was no way for me to remember this site and its name so I forget it.</p>
<p>15 minutes later after I have got no emails from this site for a long time I got a mail about, a comment. I did not see first where it was from but I opened the links and VOLA I…</p>
<p>I had a magical experience!</p>
<p>I was sharing my profiles and book pages to one of my author friends here from Sweden and I thought I got all sites to her. </p>
<p>After a while, I found in my thoughts that have this page also but there was no way for me to remember this site and its name so I forget it.</p>
<p>15 minutes later after I have got no emails from this site for a long time I got a mail about, a comment. I did not see first where it was from but I opened the links and VOLA I found the missing page.</p>
<p>Very amazing and fantastic and it just verified the power of the knowledge I am sharing in my book.</p>
<p>So I recommend that you should learn how to make things happen to you and read my book a few times. </p>
<p>On my <a href="http://theforceoftheuniverse.com/" target="_blank">homepage</a>, you will find a lot of good things to improve your life. </p>
<p>Have a magic day!</p>
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<p></p> I recently joined The Book Marketing Networktag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2014-10-16:523145:Topic:6430422014-10-16T14:53:48.196ZKeith Meyershttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/KeithMeyers
<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I recently joined The Book Marketing Network, because I wanted to network with other writers and tell them about my new eBook. I just finished writing, "Keith Meyers Blogging Nibbles: The Successful Way To Make Money Online." Please, feel free to take a look around my website: "Keith Meyers Tech Tips." I am offering my eBook at a discounted price to anyone that visits my website and subscribes to my monthly newsletter. It's my way of saying, "Thank You!"<br></br><br></br>Here is…</p>
<p>Hello All,</p>
<p>I recently joined The Book Marketing Network, because I wanted to network with other writers and tell them about my new eBook. I just finished writing, "Keith Meyers Blogging Nibbles: The Successful Way To Make Money Online." Please, feel free to take a look around my website: "Keith Meyers Tech Tips." I am offering my eBook at a discounted price to anyone that visits my website and subscribes to my monthly newsletter. It's my way of saying, "Thank You!"<br/><br/>Here is the link to my website:</p>
<p><a href="http://keithmeyerstechtips.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://keithmeyerstechtips.blogspot.com/</a><br/><br/>Here is the link to my new eBook:</p>
<p><a href="http://keithmeyers-bloggingnibbles.myinstapage.com.instapage.com/" target="_blank">http://keithmeyers-bloggingnibbles.myinstapage.com.instapage.com/</a></p> Pricingtag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2012-11-24:523145:Topic:5483292012-11-24T16:36:04.329ZNeil Ostroffhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/NeilOstroff
<p>I’ve been reading a lot of threads lately about Amazon and Kindle and how Amazon is changing the algorithms to promote books that are more expensive. It makes good business sense if you think about it. You need to sell five ninety-nine cent books or just one five dollar book. If you put equal amount of promotion into each book, naturally the five dollar book will make more money if both books benefit equally from the same amount of promotion. Make sense? There is also the ‘perceived value’…</p>
<p>I’ve been reading a lot of threads lately about Amazon and Kindle and how Amazon is changing the algorithms to promote books that are more expensive. It makes good business sense if you think about it. You need to sell five ninety-nine cent books or just one five dollar book. If you put equal amount of promotion into each book, naturally the five dollar book will make more money if both books benefit equally from the same amount of promotion. Make sense? There is also the ‘perceived value’ aspect of book buying. People will eagerly download free books because, well, they’re free. It doesn’t matter if they’re terrible. But I think people who download a ninety-nine cent book opposed to a five dollar book will have the preconceived notion that the five dollar book will be better and the ninety-nine cent book may have some flaws. So, on January 1<sup>st</sup> 2013 I will be raising the price of my books to $2.99 each. I believe my novels are worth the price since they’ve all been through the ringer professionally, gotten great reviews, and have been edited by some of the best in the business. Check out the free sample chapters on Amazon.</p>
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<p></p> Holidays are coming!tag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2012-11-19:523145:Topic:5471012012-11-19T19:50:06.572ZNeil Ostroffhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/NeilOstroff
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<p>I’m just amazed at the number of Kindle and Nook ads that I’m seeing on television. It seems just the other day that people were scorning ebooks as a fad that would never take off. Well, guess what? People were wrong. Kindles and Nooks are selling by the millions now. I foresee a near future where paperback books, like music CD’s and large boomboxes, will be an oddity, a relic from the past. Now, I’m not talking about coffee table books and photography books, and the book as a work…</p>
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<p>I’m just amazed at the number of Kindle and Nook ads that I’m seeing on television. It seems just the other day that people were scorning ebooks as a fad that would never take off. Well, guess what? People were wrong. Kindles and Nooks are selling by the millions now. I foresee a near future where paperback books, like music CD’s and large boomboxes, will be an oddity, a relic from the past. Now, I’m not talking about coffee table books and photography books, and the book as a work of art. I’m talking about commercial fiction novels; the stuff I write. Every time a new ereader ad comes on television I smile, not because the world is turning to ebooks and I’ve got my ninth coming out in a few weeks, but because this new revolution in publishing is allowing talented introverts (like me) to write what we want in peace and without worry about the marketplace. If the story is good it will find its niche. Making a living as an indie author is a slow go and there are literally thousands more books available than ever before. The big-time publishing process is slowly eroding, but the new ebook revolution gives renewed hope to those writers who would never have endured the long, arduous road it used to take to publish a commercial novel in a major publishing house, only to have the book available for six to eight weeks and then disappear forever. So bring on the holidays, and new book buyers, and indie writers with stories to tell. Bring on the holiday travel (ugh!) and all that mess. And be sure to bring along an ereader to pass the time. And perhaps, check out what I write.</p>
<p> <a href="http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com/">http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com</a></p> Writing the endtag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2012-09-24:523145:Topic:5427892012-09-24T19:28:12.962ZNeil Ostroffhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/NeilOstroff
<p>After almost eleven months of continuous, daily writing I finally wrote ‘The End” on IMAGINATION. Well, I don’t actually write those words since it’s not industry standard anymore, but I did write the final, conclusive last sentence of the novel. Ah, what a feeling! This being my eleventh book, it still never ceases to amaze me how a story can take on a life of its own. If I were to look at my original notes on the concept for the story from last year and compare it to what I actually…</p>
<p>After almost eleven months of continuous, daily writing I finally wrote ‘The End” on IMAGINATION. Well, I don’t actually write those words since it’s not industry standard anymore, but I did write the final, conclusive last sentence of the novel. Ah, what a feeling! This being my eleventh book, it still never ceases to amaze me how a story can take on a life of its own. If I were to look at my original notes on the concept for the story from last year and compare it to what I actually created, it would probably give a good laugh. In the original concept the main character was an alien. When you read IMAGINATION you’ll discover the humor in that. Though I’ve finished the novel, it is still a ways from hitting the marketplace. I need to give it a couple of good, thorough reads, looking for any mistakes or poor/boring sentences. When I can read it without pausing to correct, it will be ready for a professional edit. Not sure who I’m going to use at this point. Once those corrections are made it’s designing the cover time. I already have an idea of what I want it to be. Then to my formatter who will set it up for the marketplace. Then what? Well, to be honest, I usually feel a little depressed and disconnected after finishing a book when I’m not sure what my next book will be. Sometimes the idea for a novel won’t come for months after I finish the last one. I usually wander around in a semi-fog desperate for an idea that will keep me interested for at least the year it usually takes me to write a book. Sure, I’ll market and promote my other works and concentrate on IMAGINATION, but that still leaves hours free when I would normally be writing original stuff. I’ve tried short stories in my spare time, but I’m just not that kind of a writer. I like to develop a concept or idea fully and that usually takes me at least 50,000 words to achieve. Sometimes writing ‘The End” can almost be as scary as writing that first sentence.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com/">http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com</a></p> The futuretag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2012-07-08:523145:Topic:5343812012-07-08T18:03:49.997ZNeil Ostroffhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/NeilOstroff
<p>Lately, I’ve been contemplating the future of writers in today’s high technology society. What will become of us and the books we write? Will the paperback go the way of the compact disk? Will publishing houses disappear the way most record labels have? Will the paperback book become a lost art? I don’t know, but one thing I do know is that there will always be writers and there will always be stories to tell. What is uncertain, is what medium will sell those stories. I have several theories…</p>
<p>Lately, I’ve been contemplating the future of writers in today’s high technology society. What will become of us and the books we write? Will the paperback go the way of the compact disk? Will publishing houses disappear the way most record labels have? Will the paperback book become a lost art? I don’t know, but one thing I do know is that there will always be writers and there will always be stories to tell. What is uncertain, is what medium will sell those stories. I have several theories on what may happen in the not-to-distant future. One, and something we can all agree upon, is that ebooks will replace traditional books to a large degree. People will carry libraries of their favorites in a nearly weightless ereader the size of a sheet of paper or less. And we all know how easy it is to pirate a book and place it for free all over the internet. So, how will a writer make money? I’m nearly certain that book advances by major publishers will be non-existent within five years. I have two theories. My first, is that authors will have websites that people can join and then read the author’s books. For instance, I would charge say, 99 cents a month to read all the books I have and continue to put out. No one would really own the books but they could read them everywhere and on all types of devices. This would work extremely well if you had a large following. Imagine thousands if not tens of thousands of people paying .99 cents a month. That’s a lot of scratch. My second theory on the future of authors and their books is perhaps an author will offer their ebooks for free on websites or even as stand alone novels. The twist, there would be ads on both the site and in the book. The product would be free to the reader, but companies would pay to advertise alongside or in between the pages. This could generate quite a bit of revenue if the book became big. Imagine charging a certain sum for advertising per month and then switching it up between advertisers. Again, that’s a lot of scratch. As I see it, the traditional book industry of buying a single paperback from a single author through a bookstore or website will soon become ancient history. But for the author, this opens up a whole new way of getting the world to notice you. We’ll see what the future holds.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com/">http://www.neilostroff.blogspot.com</a></p> Not so goodtag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2012-07-02:523145:Topic:5336872012-07-02T18:50:22.385ZNeil Ostroffhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/NeilOstroff
<p>So once again, I’ve made a blunder (I think) in my sponsorship ads. Last Friday, DROP OUT was Kindle Nation Daily’s sponsor. <a href="http://kindlenationdaily.com/2012/06/kdd-june-29/" target="_blank">http://kindlenationdaily.com/2012/06/kdd-june-29/</a>According to their own estimates more than 150,000 readers were exposed through their means. I probably exposed the link to another twenty or thirty thousand people through my promotional efforts. I figured it was a good day to place the…</p>
<p>So once again, I’ve made a blunder (I think) in my sponsorship ads. Last Friday, DROP OUT was Kindle Nation Daily’s sponsor. <a href="http://kindlenationdaily.com/2012/06/kdd-june-29/" target="_blank">http://kindlenationdaily.com/2012/06/kdd-june-29/</a>According to their own estimates more than 150,000 readers were exposed through their means. I probably exposed the link to another twenty or thirty thousand people through my promotional efforts. I figured it was a good day to place the sponsorship because of the upcoming Fourth of July. I assumed readers would be anxious for some holiday reading by the poolside or on the beach. I, myself, was at the beach all last week at Wildwood Crest New Jersey. Our checkout date just happened to be the Friday of my sponsorship. So, after posting notice and the link on all my writer’s sites and blog in the morning, I merrily packed the car and headed home, thrilled to check my sales numbers when I arrived. I cruised out of the island pretty easily, but then we got to the expressway. Oh my God! Traffic was backed up for miles and miles. It was crazy. People honking. People getting out of their cars and looking down the street. People scratching their heads in frustration. Thankfully, the cars were all going toward the beaches and not away, like I was. So, as I drove onward relieved that I wasn’t involved in that mess, it suddenly occurred to me that today was a HUGE travel day. People weren’t going to be lounging around poolside or scanning their Kindles for books. They were going to be traveling. I had booked a sponsorship on a day when most people won’t be reading anything. The last sponsorship for DROP OUT was a few months ago with Kindle Fire Department, and that yielded impressive results. With that hopeful thought in mind I tried to put sales out of my head and concentrate on driving. Three hours later, tired and hungry, I pulled into my driveway. Not one for suspense, I went straight into my office, turned on my computer, and waited with tingles along my spine for the machine to boot. After what seemed like an eternity, the screen flickered to life and I was online. Fingers trembling, I typed into my account. I looked at a few sales of my other books and then lowered my eyes to DROP OUT’s numbers. It felt like a lead weight had dropped into my stomach. My biggest fear materialized into truth. My sales for DROP OUT after the sponsorship were hardly affected, just a few more than normal. I sighed with disgust at my own stupidity for booking the date. If nothing else, I’ve learned this about sponsorship. Don’t sponsor on the weekends even though most people say you should. I’ve discovered most sales come during the week when people are bored at work and fiddle around online to pass the time. That’s when they discover you. Don’t book sponsorships on sites with less than 10,000 hits a day. The percentages against making enough sales to cover the cost run against you. And the hard lesson for me, never book a sponsorship on a known travel day. Hopefully, sales will magically increase and I can put a plus on the income side of this sponsorship instead of a negative.</p>
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<p>Author of historical romance Grace Elliot, invites you to view her latest blog post.</p>
<p>This festive season Grace takes a fresh look at the story of Dick Whittington and ponders exactly how Puss earnt him a fortune.…</p>
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<p>Author of historical romance Grace Elliot, invites you to view her latest blog post.</p>
<p>This festive season Grace takes a fresh look at the story of Dick Whittington and ponders exactly how Puss earnt him a fortune.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Exactly how did Puss make Dick Whittington’s fortune?</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">As a child I remember a Christmas treat of being taken to the London Palladian to see ‘Puss in Boots.’ This is a version of the story of a poor boy, Dick Whittington. He heard rumours that London was paved with gold and gathered all his possessions into a spotted handkerchief and, along with his pet cat Puss, went to the city ...</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;"><a target="_self" href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2865901595?profile=original"><img width="300" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2865901595?profile=original" class="align-center"/></a></span></p> Fatherhood Role In Societytag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2010-05-29:523145:Topic:3174352010-05-29T20:23:30.594ZSimeon Johnsonhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/SimeonJohnson
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: #e6e6e6; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 9pt">Role Model Fathers Who Made a Difference in a Child's Life</span> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: #e6e6e6; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><br/></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 8.5pt"><br/></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND: white; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">From the author of: You're a Worthwhile Person in More Ways than a Million by Simeon Johnson <br/></span><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><br/><span style="BACKGROUND: #e6e6e6">RECOMMENDED READ <br/></span><br/>Writer’s Digest <br/>12th Annual International <a href="http://www.selfgrowth.com/self_publishing.html"><span style="COLOR: #2a6b93">Self-Publishing</span></a> Book Awards<br/>Author: Simeon W. Johnson<br/>Title: You’re a Worthwhile Person in More Ways than a Million! Category: Inspirational<br/><br/>Judges Critique and Commentary:<br/><br/>“…Good title, dramatic front cover: Good choice material for back cover...<br/><br/>The writer has hit upon a very interesting concept and used it with good results. Quotations and sidebars have been used well. There is a nice variety of types of profiles.<br/><br/>This little book should have widespread distribution. It is a great reminder of those upon whom we depend. Counselors should definitely have copies.”<br/>Kristin D. Godsey, Editor/ Writer’s Digest<br/><br/><span style="BACKGROUND: #e6e6e6">Building, Digging & Shaping</span><br/><br/>“...You must prepare the ground,<br/>plant the seed, cultivate, and water if you expect<br/>to reap the harvest.”</span></p>
<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><br/>Stephen B. Covey<br/><br/><span style="BACKGROUND: #e6e6e6">The Bricklayer</span><br/><br/>The sun rises at 6:30 a.m. on another summertime Saturday, bricklayer Clarence Jeffers starts his workday.<br/><br/>Today he is assigned to a $3.2-million mansion in<br/>the suburbs of Basking Ridge, New Jersey. The owners, a middle-aged wife and her practically non-participatory older husband, hired him to do the painstaking work of laying one brick at a time for their castle-like home, whose exterior is to be a combination of the off-white and tan-colored bricks which were imported straight from Italy.<br/><br/>With his pile of Italian bricks and big bucket of gray mortar, Clarence begins his bricklaying routine of stirring the mortar a couple of times swiftly before placing each brick.<br/><br/>The mortar must be the right consistency and also the right temperature; if the sun is too strong, the mortar may dry out. So he must work quickly.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">He can lay and layer about 20 bricks a minute, a pretty good time, but when he has a job like this—a total of 1,000 bricks for the front exterior alone—his work is cut out for him, especially since the temperature is already 87 degrees.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"> Clarence prefers to work in autumn, when the weather is cooler and not as rainy or snowy. But these wealthy customers tend to do their renovations in the summer, it seems, and<br/>Clarence cannot say no if he wants to retire anytime soon. So, with his big bucket of mortar and shiny spade, he makes his way carefully up the scaffolding he must ascend, eventually all the way to the top floor, three stories above ground.<br/><br/>By noon, the sun is out in full force, and the humidity makes it feel even hotter. Sweat drips from Clarence’s graying hair, as he wipes his tan forehead with the red bandana he keeps stuffed in the back pocket of his blue jean overalls. In another hour he probably will have to take his tank top off, he thinks. Otherwise, he’ll be soaked<br/>with perspiration. He grows uncomfortable at the<br/>prospect of the demanding wife, who peers at him lasciviously, especially when he has taken off his shirt.<br/><br/>Unfortunately, as he must start bricklaying from the bottom up, he often winds up on the top floor—where her bedroom is—when the temperature has reached its alltime daily high and he needs to disrobe even a little just to continue his efficient pace. The lady of the house seems to always purposely plant herself on her cavernous kingsized bed, with its shiny lavender sheets. She is decked out in lacy black lingerie and licks her lips.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Clarence has asked his boss to send him elsewhere, but to no avail.<br/><br/>His boss just snickers whenever he relays his discomfort. “You should be so lucky,” he sneers at Clarence. “Plus, Mrs. Anderson is one of our most reliable customers, and she requested you.”<br/><br/>Clarence feels caught between a brick and a hard place. </span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Even mentioning his sweet wife Melissa and their four grown children does not seem to deter the mistress of this monstrosity at 15 McDougal Lane. He thinks that it might be time to call Dave, his neighbor in Bay Ridge, who owns a corporate construction company, to see if he can get out<br/>of this residential line of work. The money may be good, but the customers can make his days too trying. He’s afraid that if he turns Mrs. Anderson down again, she will have him fired anyway. In the meantime, he keeps plodding away—ivory brick, mortar, tan brick, mortar, ivory brick again, and on and on.</span></p>
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<p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; BACKGROUND: white" class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt">Author's Bio</span></strong> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #282828; FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><br/>Prolific author Simeon W. Johnson is a successful author of five books: an entrepreneur With a book and gift boutique: http: / / <a title="www.johnsonandjohnsongift.com" href="http://www.johnsonandjohnsongift.com/"><span style="COLOR: purple">www.johnsonandjohnsongift.com</span></a> . A former Radio and television electronics technician... He received a master's certification in radio and TV electronics From National Technical Schools, Los Angeles, CA ... He also Earned his FCC First Class General Radio and Telephone License</span></p> Writer and now Emmy nomination for Aurea McGarrytag:thebookmarketingnetwork.com,2010-05-18:523145:Topic:3142512010-05-18T01:09:55.366ZDon Wood aka Video magicianhttp://thebookmarketingnetwork.com/profile/DonWoodakaVideomagician
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