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In case it’s not yet abundantly clear, I happen to think Mark Victor Hansen is a creative genius! His latest endeavor YouPublish.com launches today, and here’s the press release he just emailed me about it…

Los Angeles (May 7, 2008)–YouPublish.com officially opens to the public today for consumers to view, purchase/search and download digital content by a wide range of authors, creative artists and everyday people with something to say or share with others internationally.

Integrating aspects of YouTube, Facebook and Amazon with unique, new thinking and technology in an ultra easy-to-use online environment, YouPublish is the place where unlimited creators go to publish their digital content for sale or for free distribution to consumers. Launching with well over 1,000 authors, musicians, composers, photographers, poets, and varied creative artists from more than 20 countries who have been placing content since February, this portal is now open for commerce.

The brainchild of Mark Victor Hansen and fellow YouPublish Advisors Roice Krueger and James Skinner, YouPublish.com is designed to be the simplest way to publish any electronic digital file in any format on the Internet. The structure of the portal is streamlined so that any person can literally register as a YouPublish user and publish their creations in minutes. You can test drive and publish your ideas almost as fast as you can think them!

“From our experiences in business, specifically publishing combined with the future direction of the Internet, we believe YouPublish.com is exactly where buying and selling content, from books to films is headed,” says Hansen, co-founder of the hit book series Chicken Soup for the Soul and longtime mentor of authors around the world. “We see the opportunity for existing, well-known authors and creative professionals to first-time authors and artists to have fun creating sales through YouPublish.com. Consumers and producers of great digital content now have a whole new way to share their products and ideas.”

According to Hansen, it will be nearly impossible to pass up opportunities like the ones consumers will find on YouPublish.com. This portal showcases a range of works from videos, music, e-books, poetry and more. Ideal for the most established and budding creative types alike such as authors, composers, musicians, poets, college students and stay at home moms with a penchant for the pen, YouPublish.com is setting new standards from day one.

Consumers can begin at the home page or go directly to their favorite authors and/or artists via personal pages.YouPublish.com packs even more of a wallop by also offering an evolving social network and excellent support system for content creators with the unheard of bonus of a unique and creative search engine. The portal’s design includes patent pending technologies, which allow for revolutionary ways of searching for, viewing and acquiring creative works.

YouPublish.com is the perfect combination of the self-publishing aspect of YouTube with the social networking features of Facebook and MySpace with the selling features of Amazon all rolled into one solution, without the restrictions of allowing only free or only paid-for content and not being able to designate whether a work is to be available to everyone or only to a specific group or community. YouPublish empowers content creators by providing an unprecedented level of flexibility and control while publishing and selling their original works.

YouPublish.com eliminates the hassles of self-publishing or working with dozens of fragmented websites to place, market, sell, distribute and collect royalties for sales of creative content. This new portal is a single publishing source/destination, which allows authors, musicians, video producers, photographers and others to effortlessly manage, publish, and distribute their materials in one location and reach a massive consumer audience internationally and worldwide.

On YouPublish.com, users can place any type of electronic file or any combination of them. Because YouPublish.com accepts every electronic file format, authors and content creators can share books, poems, songs, videos, photos, seminar packages, and even spreadsheets and software. Authors and other content creators can choose to sell their digital products or share them for free, or make them available in any combination. If true wealth is indeed being able to afford your own imagination…then YouPublish is the springboard for limitless opportunities.

Some of the key features unique to YouPublish.com include royalties of 50% of sales (compared to 11% to 35% elsewhere), the site is simple for anyone to create content pages, authors and artists can rapidly expand their fan base, as well being able to release their works electronically and immediately in any media in any combination they choose.

For consumers, YouPublish.com is an opportunity to find great content that’s not available anywhere else on the Internet, to collaborate with their favorite artists and like minded friends and build and share a library of their favorite works. For more information about YouPublish.com or to shop for fresh, original content visit www.youpublish.com.