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COMING IN MARCH! 75 MINUTE WIDESCREEN MASSAGE MOVIE!

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010 | Uncategorized | No Comments

SENSUAL MASSAGE MADE SIMPLE DVD

Massage meets the digital age in this 2010 wide-screen production shot in gorgeous high-definition color. With sensual massage techniques for every part of the body from head to toes, this is a video of pleasure.

From Gordon Inkeles, author of the million-seller “The Art of Sensual Massage,” a video with more than 100 easy-to-learn massage strokes for health, relaxation, sensuality and pleasure.

Learn from beautiful people doing real massage in a sunlit California home.

Step-by-step instructions take you all the way through a complete body massage from head to foot. Many health tips and techniques for relieving pain and stress are included.

No complex programs to learn, nothing more to buy. Watch a stroke; try it for yourself. No anatomy or special knowledge is required to start spreading pleasure inch by inch across your partner’s body. Strokes are displayed one at a time with rhythms and pressures clearly shown.

Gordon Inkeles has chosen the best-loved massage strokes for every part of the body. Minutes after the DVD begins you’ll be doing a sensual massage.

“Sensual Massage Made Simple DVD” makes the perfect romantic gift for weddings, special occasions, Valentines day and holidays.

SENSUAL MASSAGE MADE SIMPLE BOOK AND DVD SET

From Gordon Inkeles, author of the million-seller “The Art of Sensual Massage,” a matching book and DVD set with more than 100 easy-to-learn massage strokes for health, relaxation, sensuality and pleasure. Step-by-step instructions take you all the way through a complete body massage from head to foot. Read about a stroke, then watch it come to life on your screen. Many health tips and techniques for relieving pain and stress are included. The book features stunning photography and easy-to-learn massage sequences on every page.

Massage meets the digital age in the 2010 wide-screen DVD, shot in gorgeous high-definition color. Strokes are displayed one at a time with rhythms and pressures clearly shown. “Sensual Massage Made Simple Book and DVD Set” makes the perfect romantic gift for weddings, special occasions, Valentines day and holidays. Minutes after you open this set you ll be doing a sensual massage.

The New Yorker review of the Kindle

Thursday, August 6th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

I read the New Yorker profile of the Kindle on my Kindle; I’m a subscriber. According to Nicholson Baker the Kindle has a lousy screen, a very limited library and cannot compete with “real” books in any meaningful way. Furthermore, it doesn’t work as promised and costs too much. Ebook wannabes should maybe get an iPod, which he prefers, having read a mystery on one.

Yes, the Kindle can–and will–improve but it’s pretty great as is. I say that after a month’s trip through the UK–including a week on a bike–with my Kindle. I read it under all kinds of conditions and enjoyed every minute.

The iPod/Phone produces a better image, which supports color but it’s not much fun to use for text-only documents. It’s rather like watching TV on a wristwatch. If the iPod/Phone were to grow larger–and it might in a few months–that will be a different story. But for now it’s tiny screen is really too small for serious reading.

My company Arcata Arts has published three of our books on the Kindle so far. Since PDF’s make for clumsy graphics, we added an html conversion. If you have a Kindle or iPod, take a look at THE ART OF SENSUAL MASSAGE, SENSUAL MASSAGE ON A STRING or SENSUAL MASSAGE MADE SIMPLE. They might have the best looking Kindle graphics yet. You won’t find a single case of the blown formatting that Baker obsessed about.

What bothered me most about the New Yorker profile was the notion that the Kindle is some kind of a swindle. I’m hoping that this doesn’t discourage serious publishers from producing ebooks. Publishers and authors should commit to the ebook format now. They shouldn’t be put off by a clever luddite at the New Yorker–who just doesn’t get it. The bottom line is that ebooks bring more reading into your life by simply making it easy to spend more time with books. How can that be a bad thing?

Publishers with photo books might want to consider adding html conversion after scanning the book to PDF. This will work for photos on the Kindle/iPod, which supports 8 shades of grey, but not on the Sony Reader, which supports only 4 shades. It’s considerably more time consuming but that way micro adjustments become possible and you will have no formatting surprises. (Charts and maps may require more work, since the Kindle doesn’t zoom) Generally, art needs it’s own screen. Text comes on the next or previous screen. Using this approach we cleaned up our books and I’m really proud of the results. When color comes to the ebook (it’s available now on the iPod/Touch) our books will display in full color.

“It’s so ambitious to take something as highly evolved as the book and improve on it,” said Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, to Baker’s great annoyance. Bezos has a point. I can see the ebook transforming higher education. No more struggling to carry piles of expensive books around the campus all day. Professors will come to prefer, even demand, course ebooks, especially in a fast moving field where new research might be incorporated in an update a week or a month later.

For writers the ebook is a revolutionary development. It is a purely intellectual product: nothing need come between the author and his readers; no middlemen, no agents–and if you’re not put off by some computer work– not even a publisher.

Gordon Inkeles

Own the world’s most popular massage book for less than $10!

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

THE ART OF SENSUAL MASSAGE (Kindle Edition) is on sale! As an introductory special, the price has been reduced from !9.95 to $9.99! This is one of the most beautiful Kindle books ever produced, with high quality photos on every page. Millions have learned massage from this book. Minutes after you download the book to your Kindle, iPhone or iPod Touch you will be doing a sensual massage.

Download the entire book, with all photos and art here.

THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR MASSAGE BOOKS NOW ON THE KINDLE

Friday, May 29th, 2009 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments

The Art of Sensual Massage	Sensual Massage Made Simple	Sensual Massage on a String

MILLIONS SOLD IN PAPER, NOW LEARN MASSAGE–ON YOUR KINDLE
E-books with fine art photography!

Amazon.com has listed three new Kindle editions by Gordon Inkeles, the world’s leading massage author:
The Art of Sensual Massage, Sensual Massage Made Simple and Sensual Massage on a String.

Taavi Taijala, the Arcata Arts Kindle Art Director, reproduced the award-winning Inkeles photographs with unprecedented clarity for the Kindle’s screen. In fact, every one of the photos and illustrations have been optimized for the Kindle. The result: books that look truly spectacular both on the Kindle and iPhone They make ideal digital guides to full body massage.

Download them and do a massage tonight.

KINDLE EDITION OF THE ART OF SENSUAL MASSAGE RELEASED

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Amazon.com has listed the new Kindle edition of The Art of Sensual Massage. Taavi Taijala, the Arcata Arts Kindle Art Director, did a meticulous transfer of the award-winning book, including optimizing every one of the photos and illustrations. It looks truly spectacular both on the Kindle and iPhone. Read what the critics say about The Art of Sensual Massage:

“If you want to encourage the man in your life to be more sensual, romantic and inventive… put The Art of Sensual Massage in his stocking. ”
—MS LONDON

“Attractive as well as instructive… Tells you what to massage, when and where. Much recommended. ”
—FORUM

“Do learn The Art of Sensual Massage. It’s the gentlest form, not of seduction but of introduction. It’s also an excellent way to learn to use and accept your body and other people’s ”
—MORE JOY EDITED BY ALEX COMFORT

The Art of Sensual Massage is the world’s best selling massage book. It’s a kind of cookbook for massage, providing not just a delightful read, but an unforgettable sensual experience.

Massage as a profession

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

Work for yourself. Set your own hours. Every moment on the job you’ll be doing essential work. Nobody will tell you what to do or how to do it. Your clients will treasure you. The country is having a nervous breakdown but your clients will skip the tranquilizers. You’ll offer drug-free relaxation.

Generally, I believe massage should be a gift between friends and lovers, like a good home-cooked meal. It’s easy to learn and costs nothing to do. Indeed, millions of people have used my books to learn this ancient skill.

But the world also needs professional masseurs to work on those who do not have a friend or lover to turn to for massage. Depending on where you live, you may need to go to a massage school to obtain a license. You’ll find everything you need to do a complete body massage in Sensual Massage Made Simple and my other books. Enjoy the journey and the massage–and let me hear from you.

Queen Elizabeth Touches Somebody!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009 | Uncategorized | No Comments

(Click here if the embedded video takes you to the wrong program)

This is actually a thrilling event. Anglo-Saxon and American societies are among the least tactile on earth. And people are hurting because of it. Infants who respond so positively to touch do not somehow outgrow their need for tactile experience as they grow older. Most American adults are touch-starved. Indeed, if your tactile contact with other human beings is limited to sexual encounters with one other human, you are among the starving. And while you may be paralyzed with embarrassment at the thought of touching another human being, the rest of the world walks hand-in-hand and embraces in the street.

There’s nothing “astounding” about breaking the tactile ice that separates us needlessly. Lovers can certainly enhance their lives with massage, but you don’t have to be romantically involved to touch another human being. I get letters from people who credit massage with saving their lives. Indeed, if you’re struggling with hypertension, if you’re a recovering stroke victim or if you’re simply trying to relax without resorting to drugs, massage can quite literally become a lifesaver.

Massage is one of the great pleasures in life. If you’ve been too embarrassed to try it, look to the courageous British Queen. She too needs to reach out and touch somebody.