My Book is Now Available on Amazon.com!!!

M.D. Holloway · 02-29-2008, 08:18 PM

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Developing Purchasing Specifications (Hardcover)
by Michael Holloway (Author)

List Price: $49.95
Availability: This title has not yet been released. You may order it now and we will ship it to you when it arrives. Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Industrial Press, Inc.; 1 edition (August 1, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0831133252
ISBN-13: 978-0831133252

Developing Purchasing Specifications explains how purchasing, maintenance, and engineering departments can develop procurement specifications that will ultimately drive reliability and reduce overall operating costs. This book explains how performance criteria are established for a wide range of products. Included are over one hundred performance based specification templates and the specification development process; a reliability centered, performance based buying practice that will reduce direct and indirect operating costs. Professionals involved in purchasing decisions for various industries, municipalities as well as government agencies will gain valuable insight on how to contribute to improving reliability and ultimately profitability.

If you buy now expect an August delivery. Industrial Press has mega-faith in me - this book is not yet complete and already they are taking orders!

I put my ISBN into BookButler.com and found 5 on-line sellers overseas that will sell me my book for more than twice the list price and they will ship it in 4 to 6 weeks. OK, but I haven't finished it yet!

Now if I buy my book that isn't finished yet and copy what hasn't been written yet am I plagiarizing?

livi · 03-01-2008, 01:34 AM

Congrats, Mike! I know the feeling. Having your own book all over the Internet book stores feels good.

How many copies in the first edition?

VINMAN · 03-01-2008, 03:33 AM

Congrats Mike!!

Joeaksa · 03-01-2008, 07:59 AM

Mike,

When you are rich, will you still talk with us?

Joe

M.D. Holloway · 03-01-2008, 09:32 AM

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Originally Posted by livi

Congrats, Mike! I know the feeling. Having your own book all over the Internet book stores feels good.

How many copies in the first edition?

They told me between 7500 and 10,000 - it could go up with more activity. I have already begun talking about another volume as well.

M.D. Holloway · 03-01-2008, 09:34 AM

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Originally Posted by Joeaksa

Mike,

When you are rich, will you still talk with us?

Joe

I am rich and I still talk to you!

But as Wayne has said, writing won't get you rich (but seminars will

).

scottmandue · 03-01-2008, 09:55 AM

Are there pictures?

I like books with lots of pretty pictures.

Good luck with the book Mike.

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

Congrats Mike,
Great accomplishment!

Porsche-O-Phile · Porsche-O-Phile's Garage

Congrats Mike!

ChrisBennet · ChrisBennet's Garage

Way to go Mike!
-Chris

slodave · slodave's Garage

I already received my copy, but it's missing a few pages at the end. You can just email them to me, thanks Mike!

cashflyer · 03-01-2008, 01:18 PM

When will your other book come out?
You know... the tell all book about being "the lubemaster".....

Eric Coffey · 03-01-2008, 01:56 PM

Pretty cool! So, is it kinda like Lean/Six Sigma light?

livi · 03-01-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by LubeMaster77

They told me between 7500 and 10,000 - it could go up with more activity. I have already begun talking about another volume as well.

Very good! My first book, first edition, was printed in 4000 copies. What royalty percentage do you get from the price of the book?

tabs · 03-01-2008, 02:06 PM

Boy oh boy what a page turner it will be. Any movie offers yet...a #1 best seller on the NY Times list for sure...whew with a title like that your sure to have to write a sequel.

tabs · 03-01-2008, 02:07 PM

Ohhh yeah how does it end? Enquiring minds want to know?

slodave · slodave's Garage

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Originally Posted by tabs

Ohhh yeah how does it end? Enquiring minds want to know?

The butler did it, in the pantry, with a candle stick.

scottmandue · 03-01-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by tabs

Boy oh boy what a page turner it will be. Any movie offers yet...

Hey when the movie comes out your going to kick down some of the acting parts to some of your Pelican buddies right? Share the wealth and all that... some of us aren't rich yet!

Who is going to play you in the movie... Brad Pitt... Johnny Depp?

MRM · 03-01-2008, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by slodave

The butler did it, in the pantry, with a candle stick.

But he got a great deal on 3 gross of the candlesticks and they were all within tolerance to the written specs to the 6th standard deviation.

M.D. Holloway · 03-01-2008, 05:05 PM

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Originally Posted by tabs

Ohhh yeah how does it end? Enquiring minds want to know?

Well, I can't give it all away but it does have sump'n to do with this strange, spoon collecting man who stuffs his gob with lamb chops at Vegas' top buffets to the point that that the life in him decides to give up the ghost and go the way off all flesh. An oversized casket has to be custom made. The man was known to be of wealth and taste so the interior was lined with red velvet and gold thread. The man had wished to be buried naked. No one attended the wake.

A large motorcade of middle year 911's leads the funeral march down the strip while the bagpipes scream and the NRA's top members walk alongside weeping the loss of a fallen comrade.

Later that month, a black tulip mysteriously is placed on the grave site of this man and another was placed the following month and every month sense.

Somewhere, in a small town just east of Vegas, a very small, frail women with a background in culinary arts for the major buffets with specialty for preparing Lamp Chops giggles with delight as she pets her newly acquired Jack Russell mix.