A Sincere Request

Dear Friends,

I am asking for your help, and it will cost many of you nothing.  I am asking you to borrow one or more of my books:

Renewing the Sacred: A New Vision of Education;

Gettin’ Through Hard Times Together: Creating Prosperity Through Sharing, Service and Sacrifice;

Terra in Cognita: Voyages and Discoveries on the Ocean of Knowledge).

How can I help? you ask?  Excellent question.

Kindle Direct Publishing Select is an optional program through Amazon all my books are enrolled in.  It is to reach more readers and gives me the opportunity to earn more money. You need not buy the book to read it.  By enrolling in this program the books are also included in Kindle Unlimited (KU) and the Kindle Owners' Lending Library (KOLL).

Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service that lets customers read as many books as they like, and keep them as long as they want. Any customer can choose whether to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. They don't have to be Amazon Prime members, but they do need to pay a subscription fee.  All pages read by individual readers from the Start Reading Location (SRL) to the end of the book are counted. Amazon typically sets SRL at chapter 1 so readers can start reading the core content of your book as soon as they open it.

The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is a service for those with Amazon Prime.  With an Amazon Prime membership, Kindle owners can choose from thousands of books to read for free once a month, with no due dates.  But you can borrow only one book per month. 

Kindle Unlimited and Kindle Owners’ Lending Library are only for those owning any Kindle device.  It does not work with a Kindle app for iphone.

I will earn a share of the KDP Select Global Fund based on how many pages KU or KOLL customers read of my books.  Currently, Kindle Unlimited is available to customers in Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.es, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.mx, Amazon.ca, and Amazon.com.br. The Kindle Owners' Lending Library is available for readers in the following marketplaces: Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, and Amazon.co.jp

So, for example, if this month you borrow Terra in Cognita, from the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library and read 200 pages of it and return it, I will get royalties for those 200 pages.  If you borrow it again next month and finish it, I will only get royalties for the pages read after page 200.  But there are three books of mine that you could borrow—again these are free to borrow and read with no due date.  You do NOT have to buy the books, unless, of course, you want to.

If you don’t know how to borrow the books, you can Google “KU or KOLL”.  Scroll down and there is a link that will show you.  It is easy.

Again, this opportunity is limited to those with Kindle reading devices and, for the lending library, those who have Amazon Prime.