| MSSR_Electronic_Books Alienation book downloads; subjects include technology, parental, school and ethnic, and global. |
| netLibrary Public (free) and private (for paying members) collection of eBooks for reading online. Registration required. |
| ReadsLikeABook_com Electronic books for MSReader, Palm Pilot, online viewer, or open source. |
| Report_Center Sells downloadable reports on a variety of subjects. |
| Roberts_Publishing Dr. Kelly Roberts offers a selection of fiction and non-fiction ebooks. |
| RSVP_Press Offering a wide selection of titles and formats. |
| Simon_Says_E-Bookstore Simon and Schuster's digital book store; general interest publishing in electronic and multimedia formats. |
| Spiritual_Freedom Selling e-books on spirituality and attaining spiritual freedom. |
| Tributek A publisher of downloadable books, sheet music, and woodworking plans. |
| Walkers_Book_Store Poetry, Children's short story, and a police action adventure. |
| Word_Wrangler_Publishing,_Inc_ Publishing many different genres, including mystery and suspense, from a variety of authors. |
| Advantage_Maps Offers over 300 map titles covering the USA. |
| Aqua3 Weatherproof maps in various scales. Ireland and the UK complete, Europe progressively added. |
| Arnold_Map_Service Sells a wide range of maps and nautical charts, with a specialty in maps of the Pacific Northwest and local maps for Clark County, Washington. Product information and sample views of some types of map |
| Atlas_&_Zanzibar__ManyMaps Maps and guides for hiking and climbing, plus road maps and travel guides. |
| Australian_Travel_Maps Specializes in travel maps of Australia and New Zealand. Shipping available worldwide. |
| Buddha-Nature_Maps_and_Books Retailer of Arizona topo and geologic maps; US trail, road, and recreation maps; and other maps, star charts, and globes. |
| Cactus_Kurt Specializing in digital USGS topographic maps for most of the United States, all sizes and scales. |
| Carolina_Map_Distributors Retailer of maps for the professional, recreational, and leisure markets, including atlases, topo maps, and globes. Product descriptions and photos. |
| Concrete_Publications Sells maps and globes for the classroom, office, and home from a variety of publishers. Product photos and descriptions. |
| 4_Corners_Maps Sells maps and globes, specializing in wall maps of the US, world, regions, states, counties and cities; zip codes and custom territories in the US; and desk and floor stand globes. Product descriptio |
| Davenport_Maps_Ltd_ Specializes in maps covering British Columbia, Greater Vancouver, and Vancouver Island, Canada. Also offers custom mapping services. |
| Digital_Map_Store Sells topographic maps, atlases, and software, plus aerial photos, covering all US states, for recreational and professional use. |
| Dog_Ears Maps and guides for outdoor pursuits in Canada, especially canoeing and kayaking. |
| DRG_Maps Paper and digital topographic map collections with accompanying metadata covering entire U.S. States. |
| East_View_Cartographic Specializes in the supply of worldwide topographic maps, in many scales, including large-scale maps for "difficult" countries. |
| Elstead_Maps A selected range of maps, wall maps, atlases, mapping cd-roms, guides and globes. Based in UK. |
| eMapSite Sells online digital map data. Users can search, browse, zoom, purchase, buy, print, download, and import maps, aerial photography, dem and satellite imagery interactively over the internet. Data is |
| The_English_Globe_Company Handmade antique style globes. |
| EWP_Maps_and_Guides Maps and guidebooks to the mountains of East Africa, Central Asia and the Caucasus. |
| The_Exploration_Company Wall maps |
| FLATTEXT_Database_Scripts Offers custom ZIP Code maps for all states and counties in the United States. Specializing in maps showing political, economic, educational, transportation, and environmental data. |
| Fresh_Tracks_Map_Store Interactive topographic maps, printed maps and guides, and navigation instruments including GPS units and FRS radios. Mostly USA coverage. |
| GCA_International__Aeronautical_Charts Authorized agent for FAA/NACO, NIMA, AUSLIG, Canadian Map Office, and USGS maps. |
| Geodus Offers globes in a variety of sizes, styles, and languages. Based in France. [Site in English, French, and German.] |
| The_Geography_Store Sells raised relief maps, globes, classroom wall maps, and geography products. Based in Boulder, Colorado. |
| GoneTomorrow_Com Specializes in maps of Central and South America. |
| The_GPS_Store_Ltd Sells GPS equipment. Product descriptions, photos, and specifications. |
| Guidepost Sells maps and walking books. Maps include Ordnance Survey, Harvey, and laminated maps. Walking books come from a wide range of publishers. Product details and links to sites of British walking, motor |
| Guides_Galore Sales of Australian topographic and tourist maps, atlases, street directories and books for travel, camping, fishing, bushwalking, motoring and boating. |
Welcome to AGoodBook.com!
AGoodBook.com
is the fusion of Internet technology with the greatest artistic challenge
of the Twentieth Century.
This fusion permits us to sell a selection
of unusual and rewarding writing without charging silly prices to cover
enormous marketing expenses.
YOU
must contribute to this process.
You must think for yourself and
not wait for razzle-dazzle cliche-marketing to tell you what you like.
In return, we do our best to provide a selection of original writing that
will inform, amuse and satisfy you.
Check
out our booklist. You'll find romance, comedy, adventure,
literature and self-help. Click and read an excerpt from each book. We
hope you will order and enjoy our selections. Many of these books are newly
written and are unavailable in bookstores. These books are sold as CYBERBOOKS.
Some of these books are classics and are still available in print. We call
these GUTENBURG BOOKS.
When
you buy CYBERBOOKS, you
buy the right to download them through the Internet. These files are small,
generally e-mailing in about a minute. CYBERBOOKS are quick and convenient;
without any new gadgets, you can open up your Cyberbook whenever you have
the time to read. If you'd like, you may print the file or just a few pages to take to bed. Our conditions of
sale are that the file or the printed book may be shared, but may not be
duplicated or resold. These books are sold to you for $4.95 each, with
your satisfaction guaranteed!
When
you buy GUTENBURG BOOKS,
you are hyper-linked to Amazon.com, which will handle your order quickly
and responsibly, and at a discount.
Our
CYBERBOOKS are really good and only $4.95. Read one today ... RISK FREE!
So, please, dont just look.... BUY A BOOK!
Our
objective is to provide for your reading pleasure. Please
let us know how well we succeed.
Questions and Answers
About Us!
AGoodBook was established in 1997 out of my personal frustration with what used to be the pleasure of reading.
Since 1980, a significant portion of the book
publishing industry has been bought out by the same holding companies that control the film companies and the music companies.
Once books were a forum where diverse people novel ideas and experiences. We have been isolated
by corporate marketeers, who have created diverse publishing products for what they perceive to be diverse market segments.
This has several implications:
We, as readers, no longer share common cultural experiences through new authors and books.
Authors don't get published unless a publisher can understand what "market segment" (race/sex/age/income) will respond to the manuscript.
Another aspect of this is what Stephen King (in an essay in the New York Times Book Review, protesting just this phenomenon) called "the Son of Lassie Syndrome." The "suits" attempt to isolate what made a successful book successful. . . and then find other books with the same elements.
This is a feeble attempt to eliminate risk; in fact, what is eliminated is art.
This is why music and films and books all seem so similar and unexciting, like wet cardboard or used chewing gum. We all have favorite music, films and books that would probably not be distributed today because no "suit" can imagine who would buy it.
This is also why the price of books has doubled in the past ten years - the costs of the corporate mentality and the power of oligopoly to push the price up.
AGoodBook is my attempt to restore the importance of books -
as art, as culture and as communication.
The Face Behind...
My name is Steven Bassion.
I grew up in the country. I was an Eagle Scout. I graduated with honors
from the University of Pennsylvania. Once upon a time I taught trigonometry
and calculus at Birch-Wathen, a second-rate New York City prep school.
I did systems and computer design, when computers filled special air-conditioned
rooms larger than a basketball court, for Abraham & Straus Department
Stores before they disappeared in a feeding frenzy of Wall Street junk-bond
traders. I have worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
From the 45th floor in
Manhattan, I was Director of Financial Analysis for an out-of-control consumer-goods
conglomerate, until one morning I "forgot" how (i.e. my subconscious refused)
to tie my tie. I took myself to Texas, where I built one of the largest
magazine publishing companies in the U.S. (over two million circulation).
I've been other things - the chief pilot of a small flight service called
"Barnstorm America," a professional actor in a small Texas theatre haunted
by the ghost of John Wilkes Boothe and a professional writer.
This project is close to my heart because I miss the joy of reading. People can't
find good books anymore because of all the noise - the advertising, the glut of
merchandise and the perceived irrelevance of artistic standards. The prices of
books have doubled in the past ten years to pay the costs and salaries of this
superfluous marketing. Good writers are being destroyed by the narrowness of
the opportunities available.
When anything is art, then
nothing is art. There must be criteria for what is good and what is important in
art, and in life.
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