Tuesday, September 23, 2008

UNLIMITED
The new learning revolution and the seven keys to unlock it.
By Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos
The Learning Web Ltd. RRP$49.95

Format - (A4) landscape, case-bound, four colours throughout, a large color photo on every page.
Published internationally by , The Learning Web Ltd, and being co-produced in Spanish at the same time as English (all the color work in both editions is identical) with the Spanish-language edition as a joint-venture with Mexican partners.

This is a combined new-century Future Shock, Web 2.0 and the new lifelong learning revolution in one.

Gordon Dryden says:
We will shortly be giving away pages free on our Website highlighting that offer in newspaper ads.
Jeannette Vos has been my co-author of the series of books called The Learning Revolution, since translated into twenty languages. Although a Dutch-born US citizen, she now lives in the Hamilton area here with her New Zealand husband.

The book will be printed in China on art paper, and will be launched here in November. (The Spanish, by the way, is about 22% longer then English). Hence the line spacing in the English version.

We sold 10 million copies of The Learning Revolution in China in seven months inn 1988 (after selling 261,000 of the first edition there), only to get swindled out of major royalties, and failing in a High Court case in Beijing.

From a search of records, I think those 10 million sales in China constitute a world record for non-fiction titles. Think and Grow Rich, How to Win Friends and Influence People, Covey’s Seven Habits, Kontiki and A Brief History of Time have sold more but not in the same time span.

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