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By Peter Davidson
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Copyright Peter Davidson 2011
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My most successful book took me a long time to write.
First, over many months, I poured my thoughts onto the pages until all I knew was now written down.
At this stage it doesn't make a great deal of sense to anyone but me, so I have to begin sorting it into something that can begin to resemble sense to someone else.
After many more months I am ready to send it to someone who really knows what they are doing.
These people are called 'Proof Readers' and they look at my writing, and, for a fee, correct it by reading what I have written and decide that what I really meant was something entirely different. They then leave a multitude of corrections all over my work, before handing me a bill for $300 for the honour of having had a, severe, mauling.
I now spend a further few weeks rewriting the entire book, yet again, with all the corrections.
It is now ready for my public.
People assume when you write a book you make a great deal of money.
Obviously, as you sell thousands, and make a bundle, you can even afford to give some away.
I make sufficient sales of my masterpiece to earn around $10 so I made an approximate loss of about $290, excluding all my efforts.
You may ask why I bothered, but to ask is the same as asking why someone climbs a mountain. If you don't know, you never will.
Some authors only wish to entertain, my goal is to help you, but, if you cannot buy the book then all is lost, unless it is given away free, bringing the total loss, on this one book, to a mere $10 more than it was previously.
This would, no doubt, help the helpless like you but I am not in this business to help the greedy.
I have a very wealthy friend who wouldn't think twice before getting something for nothing, and wouldn't lose a second of sleep over it.
If I was to tell him that I had spent $300, plus many months, on a book that I was now going to give him for nothing, 'thank you', would not be amongst the words coming out of his mouth. “Sucker!” might be one of them.
If we were to ask everyone who could pay, to pay, so people like you could get it free, I would be shocked to learn that anyone out there was ready to be that honest.
There is, also, a very good reason for not just giving the books away: if you look down the list of free books you tend to think they are somehow worth less than the priced ones so that if you download a free book you are less likely to finish it, or take it seriously.
Once you part with your hard earned cash you have a greater incentive to not only finish it, to get your money's worth, you are more inclined to read it twice and therefore twice as likely to take in what is being shown to you.
Also, the only true 'thank you' is when someone is prepared to put their hand in their pocket for you, and, as my friend is very fond of saying, “Thank you, and ten pence, gets you a cup of coffee.”
So don't just wander round the store looking for something for nothing all the time, buy the book and see how your life changes.
You aren't just paying for a book; you are melding minds with a thinker.
For a few dollars you have a voice in your head that belongs to someone else - your thoughts have become someone with a talent.
Even if you don't agree with them, they are still expanding and testing your mind.
Remember: the Bible and the Koran are only someone's thoughts, written down.
You don't go to a takeaway with the sole purpose of just looking at their menu, you intend making a purchase, possibly trying out food that's not familiar to you, or it may be cooked in a way you've never tried before.
So think about actually buying a book, on a regular basis, and see where it takes you.
You don't have to fill up your computer with old books; delete them once you have read them enough times, leaving room for the next ones.
This stops you following the same patterns, and thought processes; you've always practised in the past.
In this way you grow, and change, along with your choice of books.
So buy the book, then bye the book.