A Call To Immunics, my book

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Or maybe, your book. If I hadn't observed thousands of you, talked to

hundreds of you, and had long conversations with a great many of you,

I could never have written this book. This book wouldn't exist. I

wouldn't have known what you needed. I wouldn't have seen what you

don't. Your blind spots would not have become apparent to me. I

wouldn't have even known you need a book and all -- because I always

thought the Internet was totally sufficient, and that you wouldn't

even want a book.

Yes, thanks to nudging by so many from all directions over the last 12

years, I finally decided I knew what to say and wrote a book. It took

me three weeks to write it. It took Keely three months to edit it.

And, because we don't have the money to publish a hardcopy, it's an

e-book.

Oh, and we've been deluged with suggestions for ways we can publish it

without money: companies like Liberty Press and Café Press that will

publish it for us on a piece-by-piece basis and keep most of your

donation, or force us to jack the donation way up so that we can get a

little something; and suggestions for a great many self-publishing

companies. We might go with one of those options at some point, and

you'll be able to get a hard copy version.

But you know what? It's pretty nice that right now that people in

countries such as Africa and India can be given a free password and

make copies of the book and distribute them free. Let's put it

another way: this may be lousy for you, because you can't just have a

book show up at your house in three days. But there are people around

the world who can thank their lucky stars that we didn't have the

money to publish in hardcopy, because they can access it right now, in

as big a quantity as a Xerox machine will allow them to print. A book

like this should be an electronic resource, whatever happens with a future

hardcopy version notwithstanding.

And, because it is an e-book you get another benefit. YOU TOO CAN

PRINT, AND GIVE AWAY AS MANY AS YOU WANT TO. It's a PDF, so it's easy

for you to reproduce -- a hard copybook wouldn't be. We're happy for

you to do that; for this to be distributed free, as The Hundredth

Monkey was. Well, actually somebody gave an initial donation so that

thousands of " Hundredth Monkey's " could be professionally printed and

given away, in addition to The Hundredth Monkey being sold in

bookstores, which is where I bought it. And I'm sure at some point

that will happen with A Call To Immunics.

Anyway, you've got it, right now, in your computer, if you want it: if

you're one of those people who was nudging, and who has been looking

forward to having a book. And giving it to your friends.

You can do all that.

You can even you can even put the PDF on a disc and take to Kinko's,

or possibly some other copy shop, and they'll print you a hardcopy

version, if it means so much to you to have a hardcopy in your hand,

or to give one to your friends.

And I'd love to see the book sitting on a display right as you walk

into & Noble, or Borders, but right now nobody's offering that.

I think we're going to have to get on Oprah first. She could make

that happen with a snap of her fingers.

Until that time, it happens by Herculean efforts by people like Keely

and Frannie, who have the genius and skill to make such a beautiful

book and put it up on the Web. And who have, in the case of Frannie

and Greg, put their entire fortunes on the line, and their lives, to

make that happen. Yes, I'm an author who has received the greatest

kind of support from the most special and wonderful people on earth.

And some of those people are you. Or at least, they might be.

Enjoy! Get it here:

http://www.wayimmune.org/00open/shop/bookad.htm

Your illuminating buddy,

The Buzz Machine