FREE
INTERNET
BOOKS
by JAMES LEONARD PARK
I list my Internet Books in a general order of
popularity,
with the ones most likely to be read at the top of the list.
Click any title to see the complete contents of that book.
And from each table of contents, you can read any chapter.
There are 20 titles to choose from.
How
to Die:
Safeguards for Life-Ending Decisions
revised 2018
Choosing
Death Wisely:
Notes from the Edge of Right-to-Die
on-going
Free Book on Facebook, begun 2017
Creating
New Right-to-Die Laws
on-going
Free Book on Facebook, begun 2017
Dying
at the Right Time:
Consumer
Handbook for Patients and their Families
on-going
Free Book on Facebook, begun 2019
Orderly
Immigration:
Creating a New America
revised 2017
Fixing
Immigration Today
on-going Free Book on Facebook, begun 2017
Fixing
America
revised
2017 and some chapters later
Fixing
America:
Columns by James Leonard Park
on-going Free Book on Facebook, begun 2018
World
Peace Force:
Disarming
the
Planet Earth
revised
2015
Inward
Suffering
created
2015
Iraq:
Mutual Genocide
revised 2015
Heartbreak Prevention:
Loving
Beyond
Romance, Sex, & Marriage
revised
2015
The
Romantic
Love Test:
How Do We Know If We Are in Love?
revised
2015
Growing
in Love:
21 Ways to Become Less Dependent and More Authentic
revised
2015
Loving
in
Freedom
revised
2015
Loving
without Expectations:
Non-Comprehensive Relationships
revised
2015
Controlling
Health-Care Costs
revised 2015
Medical
Ethics at
the End-of-Life
revised 2015
Right-to-Die
Hospice
revised 2018
The
Flame-Catchers' Handbook:
A Guide to Constructive Internet Discussion
Organ
Donation After Execution
revised 2014
Spirituality
without Gods:
Developing Our Capacities of Spirit
revised
2015
At the bottom of each of these files,
you will see whether or not a printed version of that book is available.
Eventually most of my Internet Books will become printed and bound
books.
The most popular ones will appear in print first.
But they will continue to be available free-of-charge to all
Internet
readers.
And most chapters will be updated at least once per year.
Happy reading!
James Leonard Park
THE PHILOSOPHY BEHIND INTERNET BOOKS
Internet Books are a new phenomenon in publishing.
Instead of depending on a commercial publishing industry
to approve or accept books that will sell well,
individual creative authors are empowered to share their ideas with the
world
at little or no cost either to the author or to the readers.
WHAT IS THE SIZE OF THE
INTERNET READERSHIP?
About one-third of all human beings living on the
planet Earth
now have Internet access—2.5
billion.
Most of these people can read English.
So about two billion people can read the books listed above.
No other means of sharing
ideas has that many potential readers.
HOW WILL INTERNET USERS
FIND INTERNET BOOKS?
The World Wide Web is already fully searchable.
And the capacities of search engines will only improve
as the Internet develops in future decades.
Each Internet Book by James Park is divided into
separate chapters.
And each chapter has a separate Library of Congress subject heading.
(See the very top line on the screen on which you are reading these
words.
The Library of Congress subject is in CAPITALS: "INTERNET (Computer
Network)",
followed by further description provided by the author:
"Free Internet Books by James Leonard Park".)
Also the copyright page for each book gives the classifications for
that whole book.
If Internet Books become common,
if other authors decide to share their thoughts in a similar way,
some form of cataloging these free books on the Internet might emerge.
If librarians decide that this is a valid way to share information,
they could add Internet Books to their own databases.
Libraries would not be required to buy either the printed books
nor the electronic rights to these books
because they are already available free-of-charge to anyone with
Internet access.
(And of course, most libraries now have computers connected to the
Internet.)
Libraries might also buy the printed versions of
Internet Books.
In that case, they would definitely include them in their own database
of books.
And people who use that library would be able to choose
between reading the book
entirely on-line
or borrowing a printed copy
from that library.
HOW CAN AUTHORS AFFORD TO
WRITE BOOKS WITHOUT BEING PAID?
My own answer to this is the Guaranteed Annual
Income.
Each citizen of the United States of America
should be supported at a minimum level of income,
probably about $12,000 per year in 2019 dollars.
Right now, the Guaranteed Annual Income is only
available to
senior citizens.
But it could be extended to all citizens as a part of major tax reform:
Instead of elaborate credits, deductions, & subsidies in the tax
code,
each citizen would receive a refundable tax-credit of $12,000 per year.
The way this now works for senior citizens is
Supplemental Security Income.
SSI is administered by the Social Security Administration.
After accounting for all forms of income,
including other forms of cash-benefits and income-support,
if the person over 65 does not have enough income to live on,
then SSI brings him or her up
to the federal poverty level.
I have enjoyed this support from the taxpayers of
the USA
since I turned 65 years of age.
And most of the books listed above as my Internet Books
were in fact created during these years of support from the American
taxpayers.
I receive a few hundred dollars each month from the Social Security
Administration
no matter how I spend my time each day.
I have chosen a life-style that sees me at my
computer almost every day.
I have lots of good ideas to share with the world.
And because of this support from the American taxpayers,
I do not have to give even
one moment's thought to earning money.
I write my books and columns to benefit those who choose to read them.
If you are a taxpayer, consider these Internet Books
one result of your taxes.
Sometimes your taxes go to very good purposes.
These books are your tax
dollars at work.
Also as a matter of historical fact,
most of my Internet Books have no commercial value.
Most major publishers select
books
approved by their marketing departments:
If new books are similar enough to books that have already sold well,
then the publisher might be willing to invest some thousands of dollars
to print that book and offer it for sale to the reading public.
Utterly original and creative books have few
opportunities.
Accepting my books might be like someone in the music business
taking a chance on a
completely new kind of 'music'.
If sounds like these have never been heard before,
how might new 'music' be classified in order to sell it
to people who listen to music and pay for it?
Most of my books are so original
that no other
author
could have created them.
If I had never been born, these books would never have been written.
This is one criterion I apply to possible projects that might occupy my
time:
If I don't do it, will this project ever be done?
Taste around in the several books listed above.
See if you agree that these would not easily fall into any of the
categories
used by the book-publishing industry.
But just because theses books were not expected
or easily classified by the established publishing industry
does not mean that you will find nothing worth reading here.
BOOK
REVIEWS by JAMES LEONARD PARK
hundreds of reviews of serious non-fiction books,
organized into about 60 bibliographies.
BEST
BOOKS---RECOMMENDED READING
FREE
ON-LINE ESSAYS by JAMES LEONARD PARK
over 100 short articles organized into 10 subject areas.
ON-LINE
ESSAYS by JAMES LEONARD PARK
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