Thank you to my fans. Last night I noticed the song I co wrote, Just Another Friend, has received over a 1,000 views. While this may not seem like a lot it's a very big deal to me. If you have not seen it, here is the link.
http://youtu.be/FWo7dsjzJfk
More Free Ebooks
Those that know me know I LOVE to read. I am grateful to everyone in my life growing
up who read to me, gave me money to buy my own books, or sent me books to help
build my personal library. I grew up in
public libraries, by choice, and to this day, I can not walk into a library
without inhaling deeply, breathing in that sweet smell of ink on paper.
With books dying, giving way to
ebooks, things are changing. Don’t get
me wrong, I will ALWAYS pick a paper
book or ebook if given the choice but ebooks is the way of the future. My
personal library has tripled thanks to ebooks.
Even though I self publish, and
if I want to get paid I have to sell my work, I have always believed that
books, in any format, should be allowed to be shared freely with anyone willing
to read it. While this puts me in direct
competition with myself I do not mind if it means someone gets to enjoy the
story I am trying to tell.
When I trying to build a fan base
it was suggested to me to post my work on Obooko.com. Since I made a pledge to allow all my ebooks
free until 2013 I uploaded what I had.
The response I received from their readers was amazing. At times I was discouraged as a writer and
ready to quit then I would receive an email from a reader of the site telling
me how they enjoyed my work. They helped
to keep me going, giving me encouragement when I needed it the most.
To say thank you I am permanently
adding a link to their website on my blog. You can always find a copy of my ebooks on
their site and download it, for FREE. Here is a little bit about Obooko and I hope
you will visit their site. There is a LOT of great
talent out there just waiting to be discovered.
Enjoy.
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| www.obooko.com |
Since its conception in 2009,
Obooko has established itself as the go-to website for contemporary
fiction and non-fiction ebooks. Downloads are free of charge to anyone,
anywhere, regardless of means.
With hundreds of titles in more
than 30 genres, the site is a virtual treasure trove of literary gems. There
are fiction books to suit every taste, from contemporary romance, crime, action
and mystery to horror and science fiction. A bulging non-fiction section
includes books on arts, travel, spirituality, computing and business
management.
While the majority of free ebooks
on Obooko are by independent (Indie) authors, the site also offers fans titles
from favourites such as best selling thriller writer, Stephen Leather and the
New York Times bestselling romance author, Sylvia Day. There are also six books
by Paulo Coelho.
Almost 100% of Obooko’s digital
inventory is contemporary fiction and non-fiction, rather than the
out-of-copyright and classic books some competitor sites favour. The site is
funded by advertising alone and is entirely free to use, with no joining,
membership or download fees. Users wanting to download a free ebook simply
register their details such as age and email address. This measure helps the
site to comply with COPPA, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
All books are provided in common
file types such as PDF, ePub and Kindle formats and all are legally
distributed. Obooko has a strict policy of upholding Copyright law and only
distributes work with the author's written consent. People cannot ‘post’ books
on the site; authors are invited to publish on Obooko, which means users can be
confident that every book they download is a legal copy and that they are not
associated with or supporting digital piracy.
Boostup.org caught lying to the public
Boostup.org has just really pissed me off. They seem to think that we, the American
people, are stupid. They think that we can not count or do simple math, yet
they advocate that they want to help drop outs.
Let me ask you this, my readers, how much can you trust an organization who
lies to you from the beginning?
When someone wants to pull the wool over your eyes, wants to
get you to do something without you actually thinking about it, they use big
numbers to scare you. THEY LIE!!!
Boostup.org LIES!!!
One poster says that 7,000 students drop out of school every
day. That’s a big scary number, if it was actually true. But the point IS to scare you into helping
them.
Another poster says that a student drops out of school every
26 seconds. Another number that sounds
like a lot but let’s do the math here shall we. Let’s just round up from 26
seconds to 30 seconds, that’s 2 students per minute. At 60 minutes in an hour we are looking at
120 students per hour. Now are we
thinking just in an eight hour school day or a full 24 hours? At an eight hour school day that brings us to
960 students in a school day. At a full
24 hour day we are looking at 2,880 students dropping out. What happened to the other 4,120 students?
On average, a school year is 180 days. So let’s keep going with the math. In an average school year, 7,000 students a
day equals 1,260,000 students. But do
they mean an average school year or the full 365 day calendar? A full year is 2,555,000 students at 7,000 a
DAY!!!
At the 26 seconds number, the average school year, 8 hours
in the day, equals 176,400 students. At
the 24 hour day that’s 518,400 students.
Using the full calendar 8 hours equal 350,400 students and the full 24
hour day is 1,051,200 students.
I’m sorry but that’s a HUGE
difference from the numbers they post.
What’s the true number of drop outs?
I wish I knew but I DO know it’s
not the LIES Boostup.org is trying to
shove down our throats.
Please share this in any form you can with everyone. Let’s spread TRUTH not LIES!!!
Max M. Power
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