welcome steve to china on behalf of china fans

[ruanber]

Hello everybody,

I am from china.I want to buy this book.But in china ,it is not easy to buy the book. there is neither bookstore nor website imported this book. So if I want to buy it,I must order it on the Amazon. The cost of shipment is high .which is about over 70RMB.the total cost of this book is approximately 200RMB. it would be the most expensive book I bought until now. .I still want to buy it although high cost. I am sure it would be worthy it. I would order it after china traditional festival-spring fertival.I really hope one china bookstore or website can import this book.hi ,steve, have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about coming to china to give a speech about PDSP？ have you ever been to china? I am sure you have so many fans.

PS:how many pages dose this book has?

[Andrew Gubb]

Wow Steve, I think you should take him up on the invitation!

[Lupe]

You could buy the PDF vesion.

[ruanber]

Hi Lupe,
where can I buy the PDF version ? You mean kindle version ?

PS: Maybe all the members from china should invite steve to come to china.

[PVince81]

I'm also in China right now and would like to buy Steve's book.

If there is a PDF version I would be interested to buy it online. I just hope it's easy to extract the text, because I usually read ebooks on my cell phone in the subway, and I have no plan to buy a kindle right now.

Maybe another solution for the hardcover version would be to find other people who are interested, and buy it together. (not sure whether the shipping costs would be the same)

[ruanber]

Hi PVince81,
are you chinese ? If you want to buy this book in china,I think the only way is from amazon.com. I perfer book in paper to ebook.I would buy this book after Spring festival on the Amazon.who has read this book can tell me how many pages does this book has ?

[Brutha]

The last page is numbered 257 and afterwards there are a few pages to add your own notes.

[PVince81]

Originally Posted by ruanber

Hi PVince81,
are you chinese ? If you want to buy this book in china,I think the only way is from amazon.com. I perfer book in paper to ebook.I would buy this book after Spring festival on the Amazon.who has read this book can tell me how many pages does this book has ?

Hi Ruanber, no I'm a laowai (foreigner).

In some way I also prefer the paper version, so it keeps me away from screens. Anyway, I think I will consider buying it later.

[Lupe]

Originally Posted by ruanber

Hi Lupe,
where can I buy the PDF version ? You mean kindle version ?

PS: Maybe all the members from china should invite steve to come to china.

Yeah thats what I meant but I was wrong. It is kindle.

Perhaps Steve could offer it in PDF version?

[Brutha]

Perhaps Steve could offer it in PDF version?

Steve's book isn't self published but published by Hay House. It's their decision whether to publish the book in PDF or don't publish in PDF but it isn't Steve's.

[ruanber]

Originally Posted by Brutha

Steve's book isn't self published but published by Hay House. It's their decision whether to publish the book in PDF or don't publish in PDF but it isn't Steve's.

I hope that steve's next book can be published in ebook version.that is easy for us from other countries to buy it.

PS:PVince81, Which city are you in now ?

[Peek]

Hey Guys,

In Guangzhou all the bookstores are checked by me and my staff. Even in Hong Kong I can not find the book.

Maybe all the Chinese wannareads can gather virtualy and we order 10 books or whatever we need, send to one address in China and distribute from there to the other wannareads in China.

And Steve has accommodation in Guangzhou, when he decides to spread his love and courage over here.

Take care and keep looking for that book guys!

[yossarian]

Argh! This is a problem that touches me.

There is nothing worse than people being unable to access text when we have the internet.

I wonder how Steve would feel if I started up a pirate operation for people where the book is not available

I have a scanner, the book, and OCR software. Would be fairly trivial to pirate it. (Incoming ban on this account! )

It's a really good book and it kills me that some people aren't able to buy it.

[evacorges]

I am willing to lend out my copy. We could make a mailing list, each person in turn reading the book and sending off to the next person on the list.

That way everybody would only have the mailing costs to pay I don't mind paying the mailing costs to china - I have done that before in my old bookcrossing days.

[Peek]

Thanks for your idea, Eva.
I fully agree with Yossarian, that is is crazy not to get any information you want in 2009! So what can we do besides practicing our patients?

In week 13 I get clients to visit me, so I will make sure they will bring a copy. It takes time, just like a good wine

[Gene]

Originally Posted by yossarian

Argh! This is a problem that touches me.

There is nothing worse than people being unable to access text when we have the internet.

I wonder how Steve would feel if I started up a pirate operation for people where the book is not available

I have a scanner, the book, and OCR software. Would be fairly trivial to pirate it. (Incoming ban on this account! )

It's a really good book and it kills me that some people aren't able to buy it.

I am reluctant, nay unable to support piracy. For me it violates my sense of what is right behavior for myself, YMMV.

[Brutha]

I wonder how Steve would feel if I started up a pirate operation for people

Steve wrote a blog post about his view on piracy.

On this forum we don't allow any piracy or other unlawful stuff.

[yossarian]

Originally Posted by Gene

I am reluctant, nay unable to support piracy. For me it violates my sense of what is right behavior for myself, YMMV.

Originally Posted by Brutha

Steve wrote a blog post about his view on piracy.

Surely Steve's desire is to get the book out to as many people as possible.

This would be making his own book available to parts of the world where it isn't for sale.

Not that I'm going to do it or anything. I'm sure Hay House would be mad. My post was tongue in cheek.

[Ender22]

hehe i bought it right before coming to china!
go me!

[The Unconquered]

Wouldn't it be great if we could create a fund to sponsor Steve's books being sent off to faroff places? People could donate as much or as little as they want through PayPal. People in the know could arrange to ship the books to people who requested them.

Yeah, that'd be awesome.

[ouyang]

I've been living in China for some time now. From what I understand if you were to approach a local foreign owned bookstore, ie: Welcome to The Bookworm Chengdu | 欢迎�到�都�书虫 they would be able to order the book in for you, possibly without the shipping and handling costs. I'm curious to know how a book gets accepted for translation into a Chinese version?

[Obay]

Well, I am thinking about buying the book as I think this forum has tought me some valuable lessons in todays world and really knowledgable.

It has helped me and I will be purchasing to improve myself hopefully.

Thanks Steve!

[roxyruby]

I am glad you are able to visit this website, I was under the impression that so much on the internet was censored in china, and everything was government style factual or innocently child-like, except for the human rights abuses.
Are things improving with internet censorship and such?

[Peek]

Hahaha. we are in a cave signaling with smoke signs and sending birds called M,S and N to each other with messages.

We, or let's say I, I do not get Facebook,twitter and youtube.
Most I can get...

Yet when realizing these are sites that waste time anyway, I start caring for sites I could see and add value. What I mean is, that every down has 1 or more ups.
BTW pirating sites are also blocked, so no Jack Sparowing here