Here is a business idea that is simple, almost virtual and has an exit strategy. People like to own inscribed books and will stand in line at bookstores to get them. Authors will gladly sign books to sell them. This idea will utilize these facts in the Amazon world.

This is the situation that made me aware of this need. Ben Wattenberg a brilliant Neo-con writer, who appeared in my documentary Beyond Borders, has a new book. I wanted to buy a twenty copies of Fighting Words and send them out to friends. I emailed Wattenberg and asked him if he would inscribe them for me. He agreed. Organizing the process of moving the books around creates a business opportunity for someone.

What I had to do was send a list to Wattenberg, order the books from Amazon, have them shipped to Wattenberg he will sign them and ships them to me and I then have to ship them out to my friends. The business InscribedbyAuthor.com would be a web site where for a small fee you would enter the information about the book, the inscriptions and the shipping instructions. InscribedbyAuthor.com would then drop ship the books from Amazon and ship the information along with labels and postage paid shipping boxes to the author. He or she would sign and send the books directly to the recipients. Much time and energy would be saved and many more books would be sold.

The exit strategy is that if InscribedbyAuthor.com started to work it would quickly become a very large customer of Amazon. They would notice and very quickly mimic the idea or buy your company. Brilliant!

BTW I just finished Fighting Words it is an excellent book. I’ll be posting a review in the next few days.

BTW 2 Beyond Borders is premiering in Pasadena on the 29 of July. if you haven’t seen it plan to attend.