If You Love Your Book, Set It Free

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.”

(Via.)

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