URL Shortener Book Reseller Seismic 51% Royalties to Author Shock to Publishing

Oct. 6, 2010 - PRLog -- Dear (author),

This is a courtesy letter of my intent to purchase copies of your book (title) from (your publisher) and resell them on my web sites. Traditional 15% author royalties never sat right with me so I am making a philosophical statement as well. and you the author will now receive 51% of retail cover price.

Before any thanks, as a journalist of sorts, albeit Gonzo, I feel obligated to answer the five W's.

Who? Any author I resell for.

What? Their books.

When? Within 24 hours of notifying you of intent. I need no contract. Actually,  I can do this without notifying you or your publisher. Perfectly legal, even moral. But not moral enough for me.

In fact, I have already ordered a few books of your title and later today will be selling them at a slightly discount off the cover price just because I'm an impulsive guy and eager to get going.

Where? A new website, RealTimeBookRoyalties.com.  

Sales statistics I will give you in real time. Someone buys a book? You'll get an email in less then a minute. And? It will come from PayPal. During business hours? Within minutes. It will be automated in a day or two, thus, the name "Real Time Royalties". Ha. I may have a new company name there. I like it.

Remember i said I was impulsive? I just registered and purchased a year of hosting  for RealTimeBookRoyalties.com. Godaddy already has the page parked for me. I will time this press release to coincide thith  with my posting of this


Why? So you make more money, your publisher makes more money, and I make some money.

And of course, the country cousin of the 5 W's, how?

Not tellin'. Nyahh. It's easy enough to figure out. Just start with, "I'm not greedy, and I've got a knack with numbers."

But back to why? Well? A provocative Biblical analogy, of all things.

Regardless of anyone's beliefs, the Bible cannot be refuted as to its being a book, and certainly one of the first ones, and also the undisputed bestseller of all time, another fairly agreed on by all statistical fact. I have no desire to argue or discuss anyone's interpretation of the content in a business agreement you realize. Not my yob, even if it is fun. But people get upset. So I back off.

However, the correlations are staggering.

To me, any book's birthright should deserve to be the lion's share of the revenue. Especially a first novel or such, but for business purposes? Any book written on spec. Ghostwriting or contract work is different of course.

So, I see today's book author as Esau, the publisher as Jacob. The author comes in at the end of a hard day "Out here in the fields" of harvesting his mind.

In a moment of hungry indiscretion and succumbing to impulse as well as Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, the basic human instinctive requirement for nourishment, he gives away that birthright for the intellectual equivalent of a bowl of soup. 15%.

Recipe makes about 6 and a half servings? Ha. This is fun, eh?

Just enough to buy some bread to dip into the steaming and aromatic spice laden red lentils (near as I have ever been able to figure out the recipe from some admittedly very lazy research) for his reward, which is the equivalent of the accolades that writers seek from readers, peers and the thrill of seeing one's name on print and being able to say, "My book," in social situations, as well as the financial rewards from the sharecropper's take of the action of the price in the marketplace.

The author has done this so as to have strength enough to, as the Jackson Browne song, The Pretender, goes:

"And when the morning light... comes shining in... he'll get up... and do it... again...

"Ah.. ah... ah... MEN... say it again..."

"Ah MEN..."

and go out and write the next book.

Call me at your convenience to discuss.

Thanks,
Bill Purkins,
owner
The OneCent.US Group of Companies
631-624-5692

http://RealTimeBookRoyalties.com is a website and concept that was thought of, registered, designed,  coded, and uploaded in the time span of about three hours on the afternoon  of Wednesday, 6 Oct 2010, after Bill Purkins wrote an email to a "real out of the box thinker," as Bill calls him... the brilliant Phil Reinke...

http://OneCent.US is a privately held US owned and operated URL Shortener website that donates 90% of its advertising gross revenue to charity. Launched July 4th, 2010,  8 weeks later it was ranked in the top 1% of most visited websites in the world, number 633,657 out of approximately 205 million websites on the world, or truly, one in a million. see: www.urldogg.com/onecent.us.

Mr. Purkins credits the quick success to his "being a pretty good computer programmer, 35 year advertising copywriter, 20 year magazine writer/editor, owning a company that wrote a million words of website content pages and articles last year that lost 41 cents on every $200 sale, and a lifelong relationship with marketing and promotion, advertising, talk radio, standup comedy, and musical performance.

"Also," he suggested in whimsical tones, "Close to 30 years of a brick and mortar day job programming, designing, managing and or consulting on over 25 mission critical back office software worldwide logistics and supply chain fulfillment systems for Fortune 500 household name consumer product International Divisions and other international trade and logistics firms in the United States. This may have contributed to my ability to put the whole package together for just $58 bucks as opposed to bit.ly, my big competitor, who got $3.5 million in funding in 2009. Heh. I also have been designing and programming for the web since 1998 or so. I'm a fossil. But a lively one yet."

XXX

In the Civil War, press releases were done by telegraph. "XXX" is Roman Numerals for the decimal system number 30, which they used to signify

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