With all our fancy technology, readers can find copies of the same title in the bookstore, on the Internet, and on the iPhone. Taking a different tack, Mike Heppner's new novella, Man, can only be read by 500 randomly-selected people around the country.

At his website, Heppner explains how he left the only publicly-available copies of his novella in libraries, gyms, and other public spaces, along with a note inviting his random readers to respond to the book.

The extremely limited edition novella is part of a four book series. The first part, Talking Man published by Small Anchor Press. Here's one response from a student at Arcadia University:

"I was mostly suspicious after skimming the cover of Man at a front table in the university library. Haha. I still am... Like, is this for real? But the concept was too intriguing for me to ignore it completely ... I stopped and considered my own daydreams of success and 'what might be' fantasies. It was then, I think, that I could identify with the character's hopes... later, the disappointments... and mainly just the process of carving out a place for himself in the world."