The Disappearing Book

"The burning desire to see their words in print consumes the life of the unpublished writer. It's why they write: to have their words remembered" 

- litrejections.com

This came out in 2012 and I have to admit I'm behind the times in only hearing about it today. I would love to have Blood Omen printed with Disappearing Ink... not that it takes my fans two months to consume the book (overnight is the common read-time, so drawn in are they by Dea's dark vampiric story)! Still, the time limit adds an intensityand magic worthy of Harry Potter...though I see problems when fans want to go back and read again...

In Buenos Aires in 2012, an independent bookshop and publisher, Eterna Cadencia, came up with a way to intensify the desire to read the works of new authors as quickly as possible- getting their names out into the world harder and faster and with a novel twist: by printing their books with Disappearing Ink which would start to age as soon as the reader opened the packet, the text designed to disappear within 60 days of being exposed to air..

"In a competitive market for debuts, the clamber to be read is the toughest challenge facing every new author. How can they be remembered, or even have a career, if their work sits on a shelf unread?" -litrejections.com

"This urgency would compel a reader to actually read the book, instead of shelving it with their collection. Since many with good intentions browse and buy without ever finding the opportunity to read the books themselves, this would revert the power to the prose." - litrejections.com

Watch the advert by clicking on the photo above