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They voided their contracts with me and even put in writing to third parties that they no longer controlled the rights to Secrets of the Ninja or any other of my books with them. Per contract, if we severed relations, all rights reverted to me, standard empty promise. By this time they had sold many secondary publishing writes to paperback companies, one of whom offered to publish any new books I might pen. So, I did a couple for them. Part of the contract I signed in good faith with them said that if they went bankrupt, all rights would revert to me.
That is about a million dollars a year off a book that supposedly went out of print in When I first wrote Secrets of the Ninja , I did so as a way of preserving the history and traditions of an ancient and unique martial art that, until then, no one had really talked about. I suppose it was destined for the veil of secrecy to be lifted because another author, a very amiable and much better salesman who manipulated the marketplace admirably with secret contracts and back door political deals, began to write about the art about the same time that I did, claiming to be the only Westerner ever to have learned it in secret.
Of course, he was playing to the mysticism and James Bond crowd, but generally teaching commercially safe martial arts in black ghis. Another reason I wrote Secrets of the Ninja and Secrets of Invisibility was because they were a way of empowering people. It was so simple! The ONLY non-violent martial art known to man! Requiring no skill whatsoever, no training, no expensive weapons or uniforms, no bowing or scrapping to anyone as in some foreign culture, no new language to learn.
Just simple self-defense. That is why it is so popular. No one else teaches what I teach, because no one knows it. I do not have students, I only have friends I work out with who know it and share it with others. For a long time after I found out that there were multiple publishers selling pirate copies of Secrets of the Ninja in multiple formats and translations, including Kindle and free bootleg editions online, I tried to fight back by giving Secrets of the Ninja away for free on my website so that, even if I didn't make any money on it, at least people would be empowered and the crooked publishers would be denied their ill gotten gains at my expense.
A few years ago Dojo Press re-worked the manuscript, added a few new pages and returned it to their catalog. They have no new material to add, but I do. The pirates proudly brag that their book is pages. Ours is And, I have all the original pictures and manuscripts and have re-copyrighted everything on top of them with new and better editions in my name; as it should be.
When I complained to the biggest online distributor of these books about all these bogus copies being permitted while I was denied a spot in the marketplace, the director of their copyright department himself refused to speak to me. That is the standard strategy, ignore the problem and hope it will go away. Therefore, being Ninja, we shall not fight them.
Since we cannot stop them from stealing this book, we shall make it worthless to them. Why pay these robber barons and make them rich so they can steal from you and others when you can have it for FREE? They don't have it and we don't have it. So, if you want free copy of what they are trying to sell you for their own greedy profit, here it is.
You can download it on this page. Secrets of the Ninja. Any other book with this title and my name is a pirate copy, not as good as mine. Also, I ask all of my loyal fans and friends, and there are thousands of you, to boycott any and all editions of any of my books except those published by Dojo Press. Those who wish to might want to ring up the various people who claim to own my books and express your displeasure with their underhanded methods, for I am not the only one they have cheated like this.
I have.
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