I'm Officially A Pirated Commodity!
For some authors, seeing their name in print is when they know they’ve made it. For actors, it’s seeing their name in lights on Broadway. For the band “Nirvana”, it was an accolade to have your song parodied by “Weird Al”. And for me, it’s having my book pirated in the torrent and rapidshare communities.
All the achievements previously mentioned have a common thread for the artist: People like your stuff enough advertise it. And it means something particularly special in my mind, as an artist you’ve made something worth sharing. And this was why I didn’t distribute the book through torrent and pirate sites, because I knew that if the book was worth its salt it would end up there eventually. It was released November 2, 2009 for download, and now almost three months shy of its release anniversary, Learn To Speed Read, has been made available to the pirate communities. My book is now worth being stolen (not really since it’s free to download and share but some users might not know that). And it feels great.
I’d like to send out a big “THANK YOU” to all the pirates and their communities for supporting and distributing my book.
On another note, more updates to follow this week. I’m back from a long trip and have stock piled a lot of material to post. So stay tuned, because the best is yet to come.
Sincerely,
Kris Madden
PS: If you want to download the book from one of the sites I've come upon. Here are some links:
http://avaxhome.ws/ebooks/eLearning_book/LearnToSpeedReadTheOfficialKrisMaddenWorkbook.html
http://www.ebook3000.com/Learn-To-Speed-Read--The-Official-Kris-Madden-Workbook_81597.html
http://www.downarchive.com/ebooks/216698-learn-to-speed-read-the-official-kris-madden.html
http://www.ebookee.com/Learn-To-Speed-Read-The-Official-Kris-Madden-Workbook_667996.html
http://www.sosotech.com/html-study/learn-to-speed-read-the-official-kris-madden-workbook.html