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Book Proposal HA-24-8-07

 

by Tony Sanders

 

To publish the first edition of the HA manuscript at www.title24uscode.org

 

Be it enacted in the House and Senate, a private bill referred to the Committees on House Administration and Senate Rules and Administration, to buy the book and manuscript.

 

1. I have been writing Hospitals & Asylums (HA), Title 24 of the United States Code, full time since 2000.  The primary manuscript is over 1,000 pages, ten chapters and 435 sections after five years between 2003 and 2008.  There are two other manuscripts and another on the way this Veteran’s Day.  HA draft statute now has an alphabetized bibliography and enactment clauses and will be ready to hit the presses when I complete the seventh draft of the Constitution of Hospitals & Asylums Non Governmental Economics (CHANGE).  It is hoped to have test questions for every chapter by 2010 and another ten chapters every five years, thereafter.  I am looking for publishers interested in purchasing the copyright to the first edition of HA and other manuscripts.  I am asking for funding from two sources, Congress and a private publisher.  Whereas most publishers take between 4 and 8 months to review a book proposal I will accept offers until April 2008 and it is hoped the book will go into print that summer.  You will all receive the complimentary quarterly and are encouraged to subscribe to the monthly e-newsletter, for free.      

 

2. This book proposal is for a hardback textbook of the primary manuscript and paperback versions of smaller works.  The manuscript is published on the Internet as an ebook and publishers may choose to pay for the work cutting it and publishing it in htm sections although I was planning to wait until 2010 when there would be fewer amendments.  Publishers may also choose to afford the author a living wage through subscription.  The substance of this proposal is that I would consent to sell to one publishing company exclusive rights to the ISBN-13 of the first edition of HA draft statute.  HA is a free public service and is going to remain that way.  Publishers should view the e-book as free promotion and Congress as a potential source of subsidy and marketing for works that are made available to the public.  I would like to sustain the interest of readers and encourage writers, editors and actors to further the HA political organization. 

 

3. The publishing company should be interested in working with US Congress to make HA a law and must respect the moral and material interest of the author to be consulted in this process.  When editing draft legislation one should uphold the standards set forth in this brief checklist for the legislative drafter.

 

1. Is the title short yet clearly expressive of the general subject matter of the bill?

2. Is the enacting clause in the bill at the proper point and is it exactly correct in form?

3. Are definitions provided for those words used in the statute which do not have fixed and single meaning in normal usage and which might give rise to ambiguity in the state if not defined?

4. If a definition is set out for a word, is the word used throughout the statute with exactly the defined meaning.

5. Is the bill written in a clear style and can it be easily understood by those affected by it?

6. Is the bill divided into sections and subsections in such a way as to achieve maximum clarity?

7. Are the substantive provisions of the bill logically arranged?

8. Does the bill accomplish its intended purpose?

9. Does the bill do more than is intended?

10. Does the bill create new problems without providing solutions?

11. Does the bill affect existing laws without intending to do so?

12. If the bill is intended to affect existing laws, are its provisions properly integrated with such laws so that no conflicts will arise in interpretation or administration?

13. Does the bill affect pending matters? If so, does it indicate their disposition?

14. Are all statutory references in the bill accurate?

15. Are all conflicting statutes specifically repealed?

16. Does the bill infringe upon the fundamental freedom from fear and want? 
17. Has a specific effective date been considered and a clause inserted providing therefore, or is it desired that the bill become effective upon passage?
 
4. The general provisions for new editions of Code and Supplements are that they are not published oftener than once in each five years under 1USC(3)202(c).  
Each compilation is annually prepared for printing of the parliamentary precedents and advance royalties are sought under the Legislative Branch 
Appropriation Act of 1966 (79 Stat. 270; Public Law 89-90) at 2USC(1)§28.  $6,500 appropriations for the preparation and editing of the Code and 
Supplementals of the United States and District of Columbia are made available to the Judiciary Committee under 1USC(3)§213. The 110th Congressional 
Committee on House Administration under House Rule X(j)(4) and the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration under Rule 25.1.n (1)(10) of the 
Standing Rules of the Senate, purchase books and manuscripts.  
 

5. Any dispute, controversy or claim arising under, out of or relating to this contract and any subsequent amendments of this contract, including, without limitation, its formation, validity, binding effect, interpretation, performance, breach or termination, as well as non-contractual claims, shall be submitted to mediation in accordance with the WIPO Mediation Rules (MR). The place of mediation shall be Congress. The language to be used in the mediation shall be English. If, and to the extent that, any such dispute, controversy or claim has not been settled pursuant to the mediation within 90 days of the commencement of the mediation, it shall, upon the filing of a Request for Arbitration by either party, be referred to and finally determined by arbitration in accordance with the WIPO Expedited Arbitration Rules (EAR).

 

6. The market for HA has great potential for growth.  The HA website receives around 1,000 visits a month.  The monthly report is sent to about 100 subscribers and the quarterly is sent to over 10,000 people around the world.  Random articles are published by Associated Content.  I would estimate that 25 people have read the HA manuscript in its entirety and 100,000 people have ever heard of the HA non-governmental organization and maybe a million have read the statute under which 10,000 patients lead 50 million veterans and mentally ill Americans by example.  The HA acronym goes much farther - the new draft insures all 6.6 billion people on the planet and 300 million Americans, in ten fields of study.  I update statistics and report breakthroughs on an annual schedule.  I am also available to answer questions by email and to publish submissions on the Internet.  All that is needed is a seasoned publicist to spread the word and we could all live in a more peaceful and prosperous world.

 

7. The mission of the HA nongovernmental organization is to draft an enlightening rule of law grounded in the statutory principles of peace and freedom already on the books, for future generations.  HA traces its history to the Naval Hospital Act of Feb. 26, 1811 by Paul Hamilton of South Carolina, secretary of the Navy under President James Madison.  The codification of the law that coined Hospitals & Asylums, Title 24 of the United States Code, was the work of Hon. Edward C. Little who died on June 24, 1924, shortly before the permanent laws of the USA entered into force on Dec. 7, 1925.  HA was discovered in 2000 and in 2001 a quarterly newsletter was begun. A monthly newsletter was started with the help of the website that went public on 4 December 2004.  In December of 2004 an agent claiming to be from Simon & Schuster called to offer a $20,000 advance however he never called back. In June of 2007, I began writing news articles for Associated Content (AC), the People’s Media Company, for $5 an article.

 

8. A substantial right to relief has arisen for several major accomplishments. First, the drafting of the $20 billion US portion of the $33 billion Iraq Reconstruction Fund settlement, led to the largest reparation in international history after I wrote the first draft of the Iraqi Constitution.  Second, in January 25, 2004 Bank One declared the $1 trillion in assets from the first draft of the Hearing AID Act, they later founded the ONE campaign to eradicate global poverty. Third, after several years of advocacy the first annual lobbying activity disclosure (LAD) of January 1, 2007 was successful in limiting the federal budget deficit from more than 3% to 1.5% of the GDP and the international trade deficit to less than $800 billion so that our account deficit will be less than $1 trillion this 2007, for the first time in three years.  All that remains for the 110th Congress to do before fiscal year 2007 is over is to pass H.CON.RES.110 Expressing the sense of the Congress that Iraq should vote to approve or disapprove the continued deployment of United States Armed Forces to Iraq. 

 

9. The people have a right to know about HA.  They have a right to know who has been leading the nation while its leaders took a holiday in Afghanistan and Iraq.  They have a right to cite HA in their prose documents, research reports, petitions and lobbying efforts this new millennium.  They have a right to write HA on the tops of their documents and be published and distributed by the non-governmental organization for free or for pay if a fund is ever established.  They have a right to check HA out of public lending libraries.  They have a right to progressively realize the improvements to the federal and international government proposed by HA.  True to the purpose of copyright Congress and private publishers have a responsibility to grant me a living wage for helping everyone to achieve a higher level of socio economic development through the study of HA.

 

10. We shall win the War on Terror by amending Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse (a-FRaI-d) to Foreign Relations (FR-ee).  We shall stop making war by dividing the USAID Bureau for Asia and Near East (ANE Asylum) into two Bureaus the Bureau for the Middle East and Central Asia (MECA) including North Africa, and the Bureau for South East Asia (SEA).  We shall free trade and love by renaming the Court of International Trade US (COITUS) to the United States International Tribunal (USIT). We shall transfer authority for the DEA and the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) to the Secretary of HHS.  We shall rename the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to the Public Health Department (PHD).  For a lasting world peace the UN must also set down the Generals of the United Nations (GUN) and elect a Secretary of the United Nations (SUN) and Official Parliamentary Assembly (OPA). 

 

11. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives and 100 members of the Senate.  It can be estimated that every member has a staff and associated personnel of fifty for a total work force of 25,000. The salaries and expenses of the House of Representatives cost $1,235,042,000.  The compensation of the Senate costs $154,973,000.  The Senate also has $138,644,000 for inquiries and investigations.  More than 50,000 bills are introduced in the 50 state legislatures each year, 20,000 in each Congress. There are an estimated 350,000 writers and editors. Statistics regarding the revenues of the US publishing industry vary. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) estimates the US publishing industry earned net sales of $25.1 billion in 2005, a 9.9% increase and $24.2 billion in 2006 a decline of 0.27%. The Book Industry Study Group, on the other hand, estimates that total publishers’ net revenues in 2006 reached $35.69 billion, up 3.2 percent over 2005’s total, and that unit sales in 2006 exceeded 3.1 billion.  Projections show revenues reaching nearly $42 billion and units at 3.24 billion by the end of 2011. 

 

US Book Sales 2002-2006

 

 

2002$

2003$

% -

‘02

2004$

% - ‘03

2005$

% - ‘04

2006$

% - ‘05

%

’02

-‘06

Trade Total

7,144,188

6,872,190

-3.8

7,504,458

9.2

8,043,471

7.2

8,274,103

2.9

3.7

Trade Adult Hardbound

2,371,553

2,314,636

-2.4

2,460,458

6.3

2,495,195

1.4

2,597,477

4.1

2.3

Trade Adult Paperbound

1,876,620

1,865,360

-0.6

1,917,590

2.8

2,099,187

9.5

2,277,618

8.5

5.0

Trade Juvenile

Hardbound

1,636,248

1,484,077

-9.3

1,902,587

28

2,100,456

10

2,058,447

-2

5.9

Trade Juvenile

Paperbound

1,259,767

1,208,117

-4.1

1,223,823

1.3

1,348,653

10

1,340,561

-1

1.6

Book Clubs and Mail Order

852,384

775,669

-9.0

706,634

-9

659,290

-7

639,511

-3

-7

Mass Market Paperback

1,216,710

1,196,026

-2

1,089,580

-9

1,091,759

0.2

1,141,980

4.6

-2

Audiobooks

143,410

161,049

12

159,922

-1

206,299

29

182,162

-12

6.2

Religious

556,799

836,312

50

883,145

5.6

829,273

-6

744,687

-10

7.5

E-books

7,337

19,772

170

30,271

53

43,832

44

54,396

24

65

Professional

3,155,191

3,268,778

3.6

3,334,154

2

3,300,812

-1

3,376,731

2.3

1.7

K-12 Ed.

5,795,044

5,939,920

2.5

5,945,860

0.1

6,570,175

11

6,189,105

-6

1.7

Higher Education

3,025,029

3,133,930

3.6

3,190,341

1.8

3,359,429

5.3

3,453,493

2.8

3.4

All Other

136,488

153,932

13

161,629

5

158,558

-2

140,641

-11

0.8

Total

22,032,580

22,357,578

1.5

23,005,994

2.9

24,262,898

5.5

24,196,809

-.3

2.4

 

12. The US book industry consumes roughly 1.2 million tons of varying grades of paper per year, book industry organizations interested in improving the environmental impacts of their industry are setting goals and implementing policies that create positive changes throughout the supply chain from the publisher to the printer to the mill to the forest.  130 publishers, 8 printers, and 2 paper manufacturers that either have meaningful paper policies in place or have signed the Book Industry Treatise on Responsible Paper April 2006. Given that paper is the primary material used in book production, this treatise is focused primarily on improvements related to paper. As with most publishing sectors, forests now provide the majority of the fiber for the paper that books are printed on-and over 90% of the paper is produced solely with "virgin" tree fiber.  Shifting the book industry's collective average use of post consumer recycled fiber from a 5% average at present to 30% average by 2011. This replacement of virgin fiber will conserve 524 million pounds of greenhouse gases-equivalent to keeping 45,818 cars off the road each year. In addition, this shift will save the equivalent of 4.9 million trees, 2.1 billion gallons of water, and 264 million pounds of solid waste each year.

13. The Internet has greatly improved the ability of the writers to express their ideas without chopping down any trees or being rejected by the rich.  For a reasonable fee anyone can publish their work and it will be accessible to everyone around the world.  The term "Internet” refers to the global information system that has grown to over 50,000 networks on all seven continents and outer space, with approximately 29,000 networks in the United States.  There are an estimated 35 million blogs and websites in the US.  The number of e-books published annually has dramatically increased in the 21st century but generates less than 0.2% of annual publishing revenues. The AAP reported that in the US e-books earned $7.3 million in 2003 $19.8 million, a 170% increase over the previous year. In 2004 e-books earned $30.3 million, a 53% increase.  In 2005 e-books made $43.9 million, a 44% increase, in 2006 $54.4 million, a 24% increase.  Between 2002 and 2006 e-books made $155.6 million with an average increase of 65% annually.  The Internet Library Initiative clearly needs to pay authors better.

 

14. There were nearly 1 million books published in 1996, an estimated 962,888 titles.  English is far and away the most prolific language in print.  The UK and the USA are competitive, in some years the USA prints more, however in both years with statistical data 1996 and 2005 the UK published more books.  In 1996 the UK published 107,263 books and the USA published 68,175 books.  In 2005 the UK published 206,000 books and the USA 172,000 books.  It is hoped that in 2008 HA will be one of the number.  HA has the unique potential to be the bestselling political philosophy and law of the new millennium.  It is now up to the publishers to distribute HA to the people without any inequalities under copyright law.         

    

Number of Books Published Worldwide in 1996

 

  1. United Kingdom (1996) 107,263 (2005) 206,000                       
  2. China (1994) 100,951
  3. United States (1996) 68,175 (2005) 172,000
  4. Germany (1996) 71,515
  5. Japan (1996) 56,221
  6. Spain (1996) 46,330
  7. Russian Federation (1996) 36,237
  8. Italy (1996) 35,236
  9. France (1995) 34,766
  10. Netherlands (1993) 34,067
  11. South Korea (1996) 30,487
  12. Brazil (1994) 21,574
  13. Canada (1996) 19,900
  14. Switzerland (1996) 15,371
  15. Iran (1996) 15,073
  16. Poland (1996) 14,104
  17. Belgium (1991) 13,913
  18. Sweden (1996) 13,496
  19. Finland (1996) 13,104  
  20. Denmark (1996) 12,352
  21. India (1996) 11,903 
  22. Australia (1994) 10,835
  23. Czech Republic (1996) 10,244
  24. Argentina (1996) 9,850
  25. Hungary (1996) 9,193
  26. Thailand (1996) 8,142
  27. Austria (1996) 8,056
  28. Portugal (1996) 7,868
  29. Romania (1996) 7,199 
  30. Norway (1996) 6,900
  31. Turkey (1996) 6,546 
  32. Ukraine (1995) 6,225
  33. Malaysia (1996) 5,843 
  34. Vietnam (1993) 5,581
  35. South Africa (1995) 5,418
  36. Bulgaria (1996) 4,840
  37. Greece (1996) 4,225
  38. Sri Lanka (1996) 4,115 
  39. Indonesia (1996) 4,018
  40. Israel (2005) 4,000, (1996) 2,310
  41. Saudi Arabia (1996) 3,900
  42. Belarus (1996) 3,809
  43. Slovakia (1996) 3,800
  44. Myanmar (1993) 3,660 
  45. Lithuania (1996) 3,645
  46. Venezuela (1996) 3,468
  47. Slovenia (1996) 3,441
  48. Estonia (1999) 3,265
  49. Chile (1995) 2,469
  50. Afghanistan (1990) 2,795
  51. Chile (1995) 2,469
  52. Egypt (1995) 2,215
  53. Latvia (1996) 1,965
  54. Croatia (1996) 1,718
  55. Iceland (1996) 1 527
  56. Philippines (1996) 1,507
  57. Colombia (1991) 1,481
  58. Nigeria (1995) 1,314
  59. Kazakhstan (1996) 1,226
  60. Uzbekistan (1993) 1,003
  61. Uruguay (1996) 934 
  62. Cyprus (1996) 930
  63. Moldova (1996) 921
  64. Morocco (1996) 918
  65. Macedonia (1996) 892
  66. Tunisia (1996) 720 
  67. Luxembourg (1994) 681
  68. Algeria (1996) 670
  69. Peru (1996) 612
  70. Syria (1992) 598
  71. Georgia (1996) 581
  72. Jordan (1996) 511 
  73. Azerbaijan (1996) 542
  74. Turkmenistan (1994) 450
  75. Malta (1995) 404 
  76. Fiji 401
  77. Armenia (1996) 396
  78. Albania (1991) 381
  79. Kyrgyzstan (1996) 351
  80. Kenya (1994) 300
  81. United Arab Emirates (1993) 293
  82. Uganda (1996) 288
  83. Mongolia (1992) 285
  84. Ethiopia (1991) 240
  85. Zimbabwe (1992) 232
  86. Vatican City (1996) 228
  87. Qatar (1996) 209
  88. Kuwait (1992) 196
  89. Tanzania (1990) 172
  90. Botswana (1991) 158
  91. Tajikistan (1996) 132
  92. Papua New Guinea (1991) 122
  93. Madagascar (1996) 119
  94. Malawi (1996) 117
  95. Palestinian territories (1996) 114 
  96. Namibia (1990) 106
  97. Eritrea (1993) 106 
  98. Laos (1995) 88
  99. Benin (1994) 84
  100. Mauritius (1996) 80
  101. Paraguay (1993) 152
  102. Réunion (1992) 69 
  103. Congo (1992) 64
  104. Andorra (1994) 57
  105. Suriname (1996) 47
  106. Brunei Darussalam (1992) 45
  107. Guyana (1996) 42
  108. Monaco (1990) 41
  109. Bahrain (1996) 40
  110. Ghana (1992) 28
  111. Libya (1994) 26
  112. Angola (1990) 22 
  113. Mali (1995) 14
  114. Burkina Faso (1996) 12
  115. Ecuador (1995) 12 
  116. Oman (1996) 7
  117. Niger (1991) 5

      Total World       962,888

 

Sanders, Tony J. Book Proposal. Pp. 62. HA-24-8-07. www.title24uscode.org/IP.doc