Dreamwords

The best way to understand the Honesty Edition is to buy the book from the 'Honesty Payment' link above.

In a sentence:-

I am releasing a shipment of books designed to seek out future fans of the Dreamwords Series who are honest enough to pay without coercion.

To summarise:---

I ask people to help themselves to a physical copy of Dreamwords Book One on trust. They should pay only if they wish to see the rest of the series published. Book Two is complete but it needs to find its readers before it is able to survive. By trusting people to be honest I hope that future fans of the series will father the next book by paying for the one they have just read. Furthermore, honest readers who do not respond to the story are honour bound to find someone else who agrees to the honesty deal. This way, and with luck, each copy will have a chance to find its own champion. In an ideal world, I only want those people who enjoy the book to pay for it.

Back to the real world of shades of grey, where best intentions are dashed by laziness or apathy, where people pick up the book and mistake it for free, who put it in their bottom drawer and out of their mind, who forget to pay for or pass it on, or who leave it on a bus, or a cafe, or... or... or.

There are no tracking chips in the spine, no check-out tills nearby, no security cameras or guards monitoring the display and no legal documents to sign. The Honesty Edition has been designed so that the reader is free from any pressure to pay beyond their own sense of honour. My bet is that most people are trustworthy and that enough will enjoy the story to make this crazy idea work. If I'm wrong I will be bankrupt and if I'm right, together we create a positive message - an example to the world that honesty can sit at the heart of business, a strategy more powerful than the short-term trickery inherent in so many marketing campaigns.

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