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With most bookstores closed and people staying home, our book business is under siege. But we’re plugging away making new books for the future. In the meantime, because we can all use a little Chicken Soup for the Soul, we decided to make our iconic book, the one that started it all, free as an e-book. You can download it wherever you like to get your ebooks. You’ll get all the classic stories from the original Chicken Soup for the Soul book, plus 20 bonus stories from 20 of today’s best-known motivational speakers and authors.

Chicken Soup for the Soul: All Your Favorite Original Stories Plus 20 Bonus Stories for the Next 20 Years contains not only new stories from Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and me, the editor-in-chief and publisher of Chicken Soup for the Soul, but also other powerful and inspiring stories from MK Asante, Reverend Michael Beckwith, Gabrielle Bernstein, Kris Carr, Deepak Chopra, Lori Deschene, Eric Handler, Darren Hardy, Robert Holden, Tory Johnson, Mastin Kipp, Nick Ortner, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Anthony Robbins and don Miguel Ruiz.

One of my favorite classic stories in the book is the one about the man and the starfish. This story comes in various versions, but basically it’s about a man who was walking down the beach and saw a man in the distance, leaning down, picking something up, and throwing it out into the water. He did that over and over again. Picking something up and throwing it into the ocean.

When the man got closer he realized the man was picking up starfish that had washed up on the beach. He said to him, “There must be thousands of these starfish. You can’t possibly save them all.�

And the man leaned down, picked up another starfish, threw it in the ocean, and said, “I made a difference to that one.�

This is our little way of helping out. We so appreciate all our readers during normal times, and while we sit here eagerly waiting for things to get back to normal in the book business, we figured we might as well share some inspiration with all of you. We love that this original Chicken Soup for the Soul book embodies the hope, comfort, and inspiration that we all need right now. Even if you are super busy right now, working on the frontlines or educating your children at home, please download your free copy of the book. You can read it later if you can’t get to it today.

Stay home if you can, and stay safe. We hope this free ebook will make things better for you, one story at a time.


Amy Newmark