Where to Purchase the Japanese Edition of The Joy of Not Working

I received this e-mail yesterday:

----- Original Message -----
From: Namar and Bonnie Hodge
To: vip-books (at) telus (dot)net
Sent: Sunday, July 05, 2009 10:31 PM
Subject: to purchase a book.


Hello,

Dear Sir,

Where can I purchase The Joy of Not Working, Japanese Edition?

Namar

This was my response:

Hello Namar:

You should be able to find the Japanese edition of The Joy of Not Working (published by Voice Inc.) through http://www.amazon.co.jp/

The illustration of the front cover is attached.

Try these links:

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books-jp&field-author=Ernie%20J.%20Zelinski


http://www.amazon.co.jp/働かないって、ワクワクしない-アーニー・J-ゼリンスキー/dp/4899760647/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246861181&sr=8-9

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Author of the Bestseller How to Retire Happy, Wild, and Free
(Over 100,000 copies sold and published in 7 foreign languages)
and the International Bestseller The Joy of Not Working
(Over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)

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For the record, The Joy of Not Working has now been published in 17 languages and has sold over 225,000 copies.

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Health Requires Freedom - In Retirement and at Work

I just received the following e-mail from Henrick Hillerstrom in Geneva:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Hillerström"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:49 AM
Subject: Thank you / Website you might find interesting: healfi.com


Dear Ernie Zelinski,

First of all, thank you so much for your book The Joy of Not Working,
it has been a great inspiration for me in the last few years: I went
backpacking around the world for a year and am now "working" on becoming
financially independent. I look forward to read your new book as well!

I just wanted to let you know that I have just launched an extensive
website to inspire healthy living: www.healfi.com . My theory is very
simple: you cannot be perfectly healthy if you are imprisoned in a
regular job that you do not enjoy. Health needs freedom.

Looking forward to hear what you think,

Greetings from Switzerland,

Henrik

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Henrik Hillerström
Healfi
CH-1208 Geneva
www.healfi.com

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Arab Edition of The Lazy Person's Guide to Success

This book has been published in Chinese traditional characters, Chinese simplified characters, Korean, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese (in Brazil), Spanish, French, Indonesian, Arab, and English. It will soon be published in Bulgarian.

It has sold around 75,000 copies and has earned me over $87,000 in pretax profit, mainly from foreign rights.

I received the following e-mail the other day:

----- Original Message -----
From: FRA
To: vip-books (at) telus (dot)net
Sent: 2009 5:20 PM
Subject: to Ernie Zelinski - about books


Dear Ernie,

I am a writer too. I wrote 4 books using my name a 1 using a pseudonym. If possible please write 2 or 3 lines about how you sold the foreign rights yourself to that I can try the same. Didn't you use an agent to go to Frankfurt or to sell rights to you? Didn't you pay any service (such as a mag) to ad your books? Did you contact publishers directly? Didn't you use other fairs such as the US and London? Did you publish anything where you explain this in details? (ebook etc.)

Thanks,

Fabio Araujo

This was my response:

Sent: 2009 7:26 PM
Subject: Foreign Rights Sales


Hello Fabio:

First, I have never been to the Frankfurt Book Fair and have no plans to go, even though this is where the foreign rights deals are supposed to be made.

I first started selling foreign rights when foreign publishers started contacting me. I made the mistake of turning my first 4 or so inquiries to an agent in Montreal.

I fired the agent when I turned over an inquiry from a Spanish publisher to him and he didn't do anything with it for a month.

I still use agents in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. For European rights, I normally have not used an agent, although I am using one for 3 of my books that will soon be published by a Bulgarian publisher. I don't use an agent for South America.

In short, my foreign rights sales come from publishers contacting me and from my sending out my books to foreign publishers that may be interested in my books.

Regarding a distributor for my books, I won't have any problem since I sent out 2 of my books to the 7 top distributors in the U.S. and 5 have shown an interest so far.

Ernie Zelinski
Author of the International Bestseller The Joy of Not Working
(Over 225,000 copies sold and published in 17 languages)
Featured at The Retirement Café and The Retirement Poems Café