Are you a "highly effective" person? If not, do you want to be?
Steven R. Covey's worldwide best-selling self-help book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change is in its 25th anniversary year and it's never been cheaper to get or easier to read.
The book caught my attention when it jumped onto the ebook best-seller list at No. 10. It's rare to see such an old book selling so well, even as an ebook where things never go out of print. This edition is published by RosettaBooks, which is one of the first digital publishing start-ups and is over a decade old. (Learn more about RosettaBooks on the blog of its founder Arthur Klebanoff.) It's a 25th anniversary edition and it's currently selling at some ebook retailers for $1.99.
Cheap, no?
That's how we've seen older, back-list books get onto best-seller lists, something unheard of in the print-only world: a big event combined with a big sale.
Let's say that $1.99 is too much to pay for invaluable lessons that can help you lead a more successful, happier life. For the next month, you can read it for free -- and faster than normal.
Ebook subscription start-up Oyster has teamed up with speed-reading start-up Spritz to offer the book for free for the next month using the Spritz reading technology.
With Spritz, Oyster says it should take you only two hours to read. Highly effective.
