A New Marketing Model

Two for one offer: you get the free one first.

  1. Warning: this book is not light reading, has no happy ending, and may cause depression, at least for awhile. My (the author's) feedback to date (8/29/06) is that it's well written, thought provoking, and aggressive.
    (Agents and publishers, however, don't think people will buy the book.)
  2. Nonetheless, the message is extraordinarily important, and I am confident in its content and very fervent in my efforts to achieve the goal.
    (I think that if I give the book to people, they will be so motivated by it that they will buy books to give to friends.)
  3. The book is currently published by CSiii, whose editorial decisions I control, i.e., it is literally "self-published." Currently I have it in comb-bound, 8.5 × 11 inch, single sided, typing paper format and in regular paperback. I have only a limited number of the paperbacks in hand at the moment, but anticipate making Lulu.com my print on demand publisher shortly. At that point I should be able to begin using Amazon.com as an outlet.
  4. My immediate goal, and the primary one of the trip to the east coast, is to find an agent who will advocate with established publishers so the book can have access to normal distribution methods. To accomplish that goal, I need to show the agents and publishers that they are wrong.
  5. I propose to enlist your help by making you a bargain: Take a copy of the book in comb bound form (i.e. e-mail George asking for one), with only one obligation (and that one being moral, not legal). Your only expense will be the actual cost of shipping and handling ($4.00).
  6. Your Obligation:

If, after reading In The Service of Gaia: The Call, you don't agree with the need to get its ideas into the arena of public discussion, you'll send an e-mail to survey1@intheserviceofgaia.com with a short explanation of how the book fell short of your expectations. I will benefit from your critique and I thank you in advance for it.

If, on the other hand, you agree the ideas need to be discussed, and find the book sufficiently well written to recommend to a friend, then go to www.intheserviceofgaia.com, order one book ($14.95 plus shipping and handling) to give to a friend or acquaintance, along with the request they follow the same guidelines as did you.

Basically, if you like it and think it important, buy one book and distribute another. Whether you keep the paperback or pass it on is up to you. In either case you've got a two-for-one deal. Unless it's a one for almost nothing deal.

No legal obligation on your part to keep your part of the bargain, just the moral pressure of having said you would, if you see it the same way I do.

When you write, put "freebie" in the subject line.