First off: Business. I want your stories of the Financial Collapse of 2008-2009. I’ll use the best ones in the next Mindbenders so send them here or to my email, tedkrever@gmail.com (link on the right-hand menu bar). More details just below, in the next blog item.

Now, with that out of the way:

I Google’d myself this morning. I’m dating and the girl will surely do it, so I do too in self-defense (we live in a paranoid world, kiddies). And found this.

Paperback at $24.95? WTF?!

My trade paperback version of ‘Mindbenders’ at $24.95?!!  *&#@!!!  What’s that about? Were they planning on cutting me in on this deal? No wonder they went out of business…

That book’s on sale here for $14.99! Always has been!

Well now…thanks to Borders…it’s TEN DOLLARS OFF! SPECIAL SALE! Only $14.99, like it always was.

Special Sale for you guys, because I love you…

And for those of you who don’t know already, FREE BEER with the Author! Details here.

(Okay, I know it’s not exactly $10 off. But it sounds better than $9.96 off and this is Marketing! Image is Everything! Which is why I don’t do marketing too much…)

Give them to your friends who are allergic to ebooks…they’ll thank you…me too…

ADDENDUM: I just realized this is Borders Australia. I thought this might draw them a pass – maybe the exchange rate works out so it’s not so outrageous. Wrong. $24.95 Australian actually works out to $26.26 American! How do I get a piece of this deal? Okay, so maybe they haven’t sold anything yet but still…they’re going out of business in Australia too, so there’s the moral, I guess…