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Dear Bookseller:
I marvel at how book selling has boomed from the tiny store or traveler with wagon or full satchel in my time, to the glittering corner, or palace, or far flung global spread of the internet today.
It was your brave display and sales for Tom Paine’s books that helped fire up, and keep spirits high, for our American revolution. Today our goal is to provide you with rousing and entertaining books to update the American and the global mind.
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As one known in my day as a canny evaluator of the social and political scene, what I see is this. So great is the moral degradation and corruption at the highest levels in America and the rest of the world—and so great and still nowhere adequately addressed is the environmental challenge to our lives—that a vast groundswell is building across political parties and classes in America and elsewhere. This groundswell will considerably affect book sales.
Particularly impactful on the sales of books will be the new buying and activist power of the huge "baby boom" generation in America. They're now beginning to retire—with literally milliions with the new freedom and energy for the expansion of mind, enjoyment, and action to build a better world to which our selection of books is tuned.
As we announce publishing dates, please try books of ours that catch your eye.
I think you’ll find that this new (as well as very old) formula for making money while doing good in the world offers a doubly profitable new frontier for 21st century book selling as well as publishing.
A New Approach
to Book Publishing
BFPress is using the new economies and resources of the internet to build a new kind of library, book store, and global creative community for progressive book lovers—for readers,
writers, librarians, sellers, editors, agents, and publishers in all world languages, all looking for the same thing.
Books that entertain and expand our minds—rather than further numb and dumb us down.
Books that drive us forward rather than backward in evolution.
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Background
The Benjamin Franklin Press is the end result of twenty years of publishing ventures aimed at moving the kind of books that can advance human evolution into both scientific and mainstream book publishing and book stores worldwide.
For the fascinating story of the General Evolution Research Group and The Darwin Project that lies behind this new publishing venture, go the website for The Darwin Project— www.thedarwinproject.com.
There you’ll find the story of how during the Cold War years a secret meeting of scientists from both sides of the Iron Curtain in Budapest led to the formation of the General Evolution Research Group. How a goal for the Group was to replace the old “survival of the fittest” Darwinism then driving the U.S. and Russia toward nuclear mutual destruction with a positive new vision and theory of evolution that could be used as a guide to the better future. How this led to a remarkable publishing venture involving two leading academic presses and best-selling trade books in over two dozen of this world’s languages. How out of this thrust and the discovery of Darwin’s long ignored vision of a fully human, action-oriented completion for his theory and the story of evolution—with the corroborating work of the thousands of modern scientists and educators behind it—the Darwin Project was formed.
All this led to the formation of the Benjamin Franklin Press to expand this movement into all the areas of our lives needed to update and inspire the American and global mind to meet the challenge of our times—beyond science and education into politics, philanthropy, moral evolution, spirituality, and at the core for renewal, love.
Join this exciting new venture and help build the better future in the most ancient, peaceful, enduring, enjoyable, and delightful of ways.
Join the Book Lovers Revolution!
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