by Ben Huot
ben@benjamin-newton.com
www.benjamin-newton.com
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Read my books to get inspired and find meaning in these uncertain times, by understanding yourself and your place in the world better. Learn the skills to use creativity in solving financial and time use limitations. Reconsider your values and priorities which will enable you to stop spending time and money on areas that don't improve the quality of your life and that of your family and friends. My books are available exclusively online and there is nothing out there remotely like them in print or anywhere else online for any price.
My text books and picture books contain most of my work over the past 13 years. These include my reading of some 251 books containing the philosophical and religious thinking of the world's cultures for several thousand years and the application of the main themes of some of the major Old Testament Prophets and major works of the New Testament.
The main point of this work is to get people to stop living their lives with their minds, but instead follow their hearts. I bring a radically different combination of viewpoints that you have not heard of before. I am not asking people to follow what I have written, but rather let the words stir up some sort of emotional response in your heart.
I challenge my readers to come up with their own unique ideas and that can lead the world in a new direction. We need a much broader diversity of ideas in our culture to deal with the problems we are facing in America and throughout the rest of the world.
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Discover why I don't sell my books in stores
If I wanted to have my books sold in store, I would have to sell all rights (the copyright) to each of my books and would likely only get only $5,000 for each. Then I would not be able to release them for free or sell them at cost or distribute them online or in any other way at all.
Second of all, I would jeopardize the long term survival of my books. When you sell your copyright, since copyrights extend for 75 years after the author's death or 95 years after the date of creation, unless my book sells well enough for that entire 75-95 years, then it will be discarded and totally lost to future generations during those years. No one else will be able to distribute or copy the book until that period is over, so there would be no way to "save" it.
To promote a book in just one store costs $10,000. I tried giving my book to my local library, but they turned me down when they saw the word "Christian" on some of the books. Also, it is more likely for me to find several hundred people interested in my work worldwide then I would find in my home town.
Also, I think most people who would be interested in this kind of work already have Internet access. As my books are freely distributable provided you don't change anything in them, you can print them out and give them to other people you know who don't have Internet access.
Discover why I don't sell my e-books online
Onde of my books was accepted by Apple's iBookstore and a number more on Amazon.com's print book store (as they were submitted without my permission or knowledge), so I know that my books would be accepted, by both companies. I have now removed most of them. I also have my books available, in the exact format required, by Apple (which can be very difficult to achieve).
There are several reasons why I don't want my books available in either the Kindle, iBookstore, or App Store. First problem is that they use DRM and I don't want people, to think they have to buy my book again, to be able to view it, on a competitor's device, if they switch vendors, for their devices. I don't want any of my e-books, to be in a format, that will likely not be supported, long after my death, as I think my books will be more important then, than they are today. Another issue I am running into is that, if my works are available on multiple sites, the other sites will likely come up, before my sites, in the search engine rankings.
Another reason is that my e-books can't be free, so many people would be upset, if they paid for something, that they could get for free. Another problem with my books being available, on third party stores or websites, is that I often add to my books and I want people, to be able to get the latest version, and have the version, on my website and other websites or stores, to be the same, which doesn't work well in these e-bookstores, as they are not set up, to deal with new versions, of the same book.
In the future, I may consider making an app available, on a mobile app store. There are several reason why I have not yet done so. There are a number of technical issues, like being able to make an app, without learning to program (I have not been able to understand the abstract concepts to program yet, likely due to my mental illness). Another reason is that it takes time, to get approved, so that I may have trouble keeping the same versions, of my books, in the app stores, as are available on my website. I would also likely be required, to offer tech support, for my app.
I also believe that websites should be used for information and app stores for apps and not vice versa. Since my app would not be a real app, but rather a packages website, I believe that this goes against what these technologies were designed to do. Another big reason, for having my books available, on my website, is that I can have them, in many different formats, as well as have the technical control and the understanding of what the material means, to make the experience, of using my website, better than anyone else could. Another problem with apps is that they only work on one device, so when the same vendor offers another device, that has a different physical size, resolution, or aspect ratio, the interface will need to be altered, to make it as accessible, as possible.
