Robert Kiyosaki Responds to Financial Crisis With a Free, Collaborative Book to Be...

Robert Kiyosaki Responds to Financial Crisis With a Free, Collaborative Book
to Be Released Online

NEW YORK, Jan. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Business Plus, an imprint of Grand Central
Publishing (Hachette Book Group), announced today that one of its flagship
authors, Robert T. Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame, will release an
innovative new book, CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH: The 8 New Rules of Money, that
will be available worldwide online -- and for free.

The introduction has been released and is available on
www.conspiracyoftherich.com as well as via a direct link from www.richdad.com

An unprecedented publishing event for Kiyosaki and The Rich Dad Company,
CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH will be an interactive, "Wiki-style" project in which
Kiyosaki will invite feedback, commentary, and questions from readers across
the globe which will then be incorporated into the book as it is written and
released, chapter by chapter, on the Internet. The entire process is
interactive -- featuring a blog written by Kiyosaki, forums with questions
related to specific chapters where readers can share their comments and
respond to forum posts from other readers, and an email process by which
readers can send in their questions

This bold and unique approach will enable the millions of people around the
world who have put the Rich Dad principles to work in their lives -- as well
as those who are challenged by today's harrowing economic times -- to engage
directly with Kiyosaki and literally help him shape his new book as it is
being written.

CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH will share Kiyosaki's view of global economics and why
people are now finding themselves challenged by these turbulent times. As
Kiyosaki attests, people not only want solutions to their financial problems,
but also real answers as to what created today's economic chaos -- and how it
can be eased. As CONSPIRACY OF THE RICH will make clear, what appears to be
the worst of times may very well be an opportunity in the making. In
Kiyosaki's opinion, people should expand their means and live a life that they
want to live by investing in their financial education. "This is the right
book... at the right time... at the right price," said Kiyosaki, in reference
to the free and universal access to this book. "This is not the time for
traditional answers. The time for this book is now... and the Web will let us
do that."

"We are living in tumultuous, unsettling and frightening economic times," said
Rick Wolff, publisher and editor-in-chief of Business Plus and publisher of
Rich Dad Poor Dad and the 26 books in the Rich Dad series, "and Robert
believes that people today, perhaps more than ever before, are hungry for
information and financial education." Wolff stressed, "The fact that Robert is
committed to writing and distributing a new book to the world for free is
amazing to us, and indicative of his genuine concern for the challenging
economic times in which we live. Today, more than ever, the world needs a
voice they can trust and someone they can rely on to deliver the cold, hard
facts about what is really happening in the world."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Robert Kiyosaki's first book, Rich Dad Poor Dad, ranks as the longest running
bestseller on all four of the lists that report to Publishers Weekly -- The
New York Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today -- and
has held a top spot on the famed New York Times bestseller list for over six
years. Translated into 51 languages and available in 109 countries, the Rich
Dad series has sold over 27 million copies worldwide and has dominated
bestseller lists across the United States, Asia, Australia, South America,
Mexico, and Europe. In 2005, Robert was inducted into the Amazon.com Hall of
Fame as one of its Top 25 authors. There are currently 26 books in the Rich
Dad series. www.richdad.com

About Business Plus/Hachette Book Group
Business Plus, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing and Hachette Book Group,
publishes books in areas such as personal finance, marketing, management,
economic trends, careers, and leadership. At the forefront of publishing new
and provocative titles, Business Plus books address issues facing today's
global business community. Bestselling Business Plus authors include Robert
Kiyosaki, Jack Welch, Michael Abrashoff, Robert I. Sutton, and Stephen Leeb.

Hachette Book Group is a leading trade publisher based in New York and a
division of Hachette Livre, the second largest publisher in the world.
Hachette Book Group's product lines include adult, illustrated, religious,
children's and audio books under the Little, Brown and Company, Little Brown
Books for Young Readers, Grand Central Publishing, FaithWords, Center Street,
Orbit, Yen Press and Hachette Book Group Digital Media imprints.

SOURCE Hachette Book Group

Shannon Kirsop of The Rich Dad Company, +1-480-998-6971, shannon@richdad.com;
or Rob Nissen of Business Plus/Grand Central Publishing, +1-973-410-1234,
rob.nissen@hbgusa.com