This past June, The Art of Manliness ran a month long series called 30 Days to a Better Man. We got a very positive response from it and many of you told us that you found it very helpful. After the series was over, we received many requests from readers to put the series together in an a easy to read and formatted PDF eBook that they could print off and go through at their own speed.
Well, I finally it got it done. I spent a lot of time working on this bad boy, but I think the effort was well worth it. It looks nice and I’ve added some spiffy worksheets at the end of each task that you can use to help you make your progress on becoming a better man. This turned out to be the size of a regular book. It’s a little over 90 pages long. Because it’s PDF, you can print more than one book page on a printer page. You can put two to a page and create a small book. If you really want to save paper, put three to a page.
Here’s a preview of what it looks like:
Mantastic! How can I get it? If you’d like to download the book, click on this link. You’ll be taken to a PayPal page, where you can securely pay a nominal cost of $2.50 and download the file.
Why are you charging for the eBook? The cost is to cover the time I spent putting this bad boy together. I kept the price nominal because 1) I wanted everybody to afford it if they wanted it and 2) the content is already available online.
Can you still access the posts online for free? You betcha. You can still go through all the Better Men posts online for absolutely free. They’re not going anywhere. The draw of the eBook is the convenience of being able to print it off and take it with you and the worksheets I added.
Again, if you’d like download the eBook, click here and pay $2.50 via Paypal. Paypal accepts credit cards.
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Why don’t you upload to Lulu.com so people can buy physical copy and you can get cash?
If there’s sufficient demand for a physical copy, I will definitely look into that. It’s not formatted for Lulu as it is now, so I would have to spend more time reformatting it. So I’ll have to see if there’s interest there first.
Bought it, thanks!
I’d be interested in the Lulu version, if it existed.
I’m just not very interested in e-books. It has to be very, very good excellent for me to bother with paying even something like $2.50. And in those rare cases I will print them out and put them in binders.
If it was a physical copy I’d have no compunctions with paying several times more. I’m sure more people than me enjoy having nice stuff stacked in their manshelves
Brett: out of curiosity, what kind of special formatting does Lulu require?
It wasn’t my intention to come off snarky, I just really like my deadtree books :p
Oh no worries Mr. Hey-I completely understand the appeal of a real book. It would be especially nice with this book since you could write the exercises right into the book.
Right now the ebook is formatted for an 8.5X11 page but Lulu books come in 8.25X10.75. So I’d have to redo the whole thing-reformatting the page breaks and spaces-to make it fit right in that size.
Gotcha. I hope you decide to do this. Consider the marketing and outreach possibilities of a physical book, for one…
Brett:
I’ll also support the Lulu idea. I think you could even get away with a higher price after posting it on Lulu. I know a “real” book would be awesome.
I’ll definitely be buying this next month, though, when I’m at “home”.
At the risk of stating the obvious/known: Lulu accepts .doc and .rtf only: http://www.lulu.com/en/help/book_formatting_faq – maybe a copy-paste would work?
Going to buy the book now – thanks for this site (and please check your FB inbox – I emailed you last week about your 100-movie list )
would love a Lulu copy!
I am intrigued by the idea of wearing a bow tie after reading your article on the Beau Tie Company. I would be interested in trying the “Echo Bay” for my first ever bow tie, just for grins.
I will be purchasing this. Asking for a nominal amount of money is a great idea in this case and I’d like to see it happen on the web more often.
Haven’t worn a bow tie since I was a kid. I’d like the Annapurna bow tie. Go big or go home.
Stand up for bow ties! I’ve recently started wearing bow ties, and they do indeed seem to provoke reaction. I’ve several from Beau Ties; they’re well made and have some flair! If I’m fortunate enough to win your contest, make mine the Kandavu. It would be perfect with a white summer jacket and panama hat. For those looking for a ‘power’ tie, the Arlington is as close a bow tie can get. Keep up the good work!
Blenheim – bow tie. Also re: the mad men contest, when I voted today it said I had already voted even though I had not and yesterday when I clicked on the link in the original email it did not work.
There is something manly about having a physical book about how to man up.
I like the Blenheim bow tie.
A bowtie is a man’s game; and I think a diamond point is the championship match. Therefore, I’ll take the Finlandia– in diamond point, of course.
Hiya Brett
I popped a message about the e-Book, using your Contact form some time last week and just wanted to check if you received it ok?
Thanks, Chung