BoysMind Books Titles Now Instantly Available as EBM Books

I knew it would happen!

When our town decided to spend millions to replace an already-decent library, I thought “What a waste of money!” It seemed obvious to me a year or more ago that libraries, as we've known them, would soon be dismissed into obsolescence by emerging Print On Demand (POD) technologies. You'd simply walk in, tell the digital librarian what book you wanted, a few buttons would be pushed, and a machine would instantly manufacture a professionally printed and bound copy of the book for you. Instead of lending it, the library would sell it to you for a nominal fee. That would produce a revenue stream that supported the library, eliminating the need for public financing through tax millages.

Now comes On Demand Books of New York City, with their Expresso Book Machine (or “EBM”). Tell its operator what you want, the machine then goes online to fetch the PDF files, prints the book block and the cover, then binds them, and spits out a perfectly manufactured paperback.

Hmm ... wonder how long it will be before the EBM is turned into a vending machine. Wonder what the brick ’n mortar book stores will look like a few years from now.

Technology is certainly a destroyer for business models and careers. While we’re playing futurists, how about this ... nobody I know likes to read ebooks on a computer screen. Ever try sitting on the pot with your laptop atop you lap? For that, and lots of other reasons, that’s just not the same as holding a book in your hands. The EBM development is great, yet the machines are highly mechanical, and therefore most likely prone to maintenance problems. Beside that, what a waste of time and materials. What a load on the landfills! Wouldn’t it be great of someone developed a book-reader thingy that actually had the look and feel of a book? One that could download content via a wireless connenction to the Internet and receive requests and instructions via speech recognition (“go to”, “search”, “bookmark”, and so on)?

A word to the wise ... ODP beware! The life-cycle of your wonderful EBM is probably going to be short ... probably less than a decade.

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Wanna see how the Expresso Book Machine works? Watch the video:

BoysMind Books has accepted an invitation from Lightning Source, an Ingram Content company, to participate in their partnership with On Demand Books, thereby easily entering this new innovative distribution channel.

Where can you buy one of our books, instantly produced while-you-wait by the Expresso Book Machine? Right now there are fourteen EBM installations, with many more planned:

Now in service:

• World Bank InfoShop, Washington D.C.
• New York Public Library, New York, NY
• New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans, LA
• Internet Archive, San Francisco, CA
• University of Michigan Library, Ann Arbor, MI
• Northshire Bookstore, Manchester Center, VT
• University of Alberta Bookstore, Edmonton, AB, Canada
• McMaster University Bookstore, Hamilton, ON, Canada
• Newsstand UK, London, England
• Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt
• Angus & Robertson Bookstore, Melbourne, Australia
• University of Waterloo Bookstore, ON, Canada
• Blackwell’s Bookstore, London, United Kingdom
• McGill University Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

Coming soon:

• Brigham Young University Bookstore, Provo, UT (2.0 beta test site)
• University of Melbourne, Australia

“Nothing endures but change.” said Heraclitus of Ephesus ... about 1500 years ago.
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Earn Money for Your Activity or Organization

Here's a fund-raising opportunity for boy-related activities and organizations, or for guys who are serious about earning money for their own college fund, or to pay for personal expenses.

My book, Mind Over Monster, is written as a practical how-to book for boys between the ages of ten and twenty-one.

There are about 22-million guys that age in the U.S. today. Most of them will carry a lot of baggage from childhood into their adult life. That load of worthless rubbish — invalid ideas and bad feelings — turns out to be self-defeating, and sometimes even distructive.

Boys waste many of their best years with bad feelings and failures, until they finally somehow on their own learn how to dump this junk. Many never do, so it keeps them from ever becoming all that they could be, tragically causing some to ruin their life before it has hardly even begun.

The whole idea behind Mind Over Monster is to show guys how they can avoid that; how they can easily move on from wherever they are, into a happy and successful ever after. It's not about child psychology, nor is it a feel-good religious book. It's a book of common-sense, real-life realities that anyone can understand, and changes that any young guy who wants the best out of life can easily make.

It's a book that every boy should read, and the sooner, the better.

Here's the deal. It's very simple. You can do other guys a big favor by getting a copy of Mind Over Monster into their hands, conveniently, and at a discount price.

My book has a barcode price of $24.95. Book sellers like Borders, Barns & Noble, Amazon and others who buy it from the distributor get the standard 55% trade discount. Their cost is therefore $11.23, plus the shipping cost and a small handling fee.

I will sell you the book at the same wholesale price, but with free shipping and no handling charge!

You may then sell the book to your friends, classmates, or anyone else, for whatever price you think is fair. Online sellers offer the book for as low as $18.96, plus shipping, which adds about $4.00 more. That comes to about $23.00 total.

If you sell your books for the magic number “$19.95” delivered, you'll earn $8.72 each. Selling a dozen books nets your activity, orgainzation, or your personal kitty, a little over $100. Selling 100 gets you $872, 1000 provides $8,720, and so on.

There are no catches and no strings attached. You buy the books from me, I ship them directly to you, and they're yours. You can order any quantity you want, whenever you want. You can do whatever you want with your books — sell them wherever you want, to whomever you want, and at any price you want.

You'll be able to order your books online, and pay for your order through eBay's PayPal. If you are less than legal age, your PayPal order, which requires a credit card, debit card or checking account, will represent proof of parental consent. PayPal also gives you top-notch data security and purchase protection programs that help guarantee you'll get what you paid for.

“Check it out! Order a single review copy of the book …”

Check it out. Order a single copy of the book to review for yourself, or with others. If you like the book, and think it would be helpful to other boys, just use the same link to order more as you need them.

This offer is for guys who are serious about fund-raising and making money by selling my books. It is not intended to compete with the book sellers who have been kind enough to make Mind Over Monster available world-wide. The ordering page is therefore not available to the public. Click here to send me a blank email, and an autoresponder will immediately send you the ordering link.

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