Life Inc. - Please Pre-Order
Friday, March 6, 2009 at 3:23PM
Life Inc.Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back, is done, and ready for pre-order from your favorite online or offline bookseller.
Why am I asking you to pre-order my book right now?
First, because the book is relatively cheap right now. About ten bucks off at the big distributors. Second, and most important for me and the book, pre-orders determine how many copies get into the stores. And the more copies that get into the stores, the more books will get read, the more radio shows I get on, and the more people find out that there are alternatives to corporatism.
Ironically, perhaps, we are using the corporatized book distribution scheme to promote some post-corporatist ideas. And yes, I promise these ideas will get out there one way or another, either through my radio show, online forums, public appearances, or this blog.
But the book explains the history behind corporate-sponsored crisis in which we have found ourselves: who invented the economic rules we now take for granted, why they did it, how they sold them to us, when we internalized them and, most importantly, what alternative social models we have forgotten in the process.
Please - for the book's sake as much as my own - consider pre-ordering from one of the distributors listed below.
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
Borders
Powell's
Reader Comments (20)
Just pre-ordered mine now. I didn't realize the correlation between pre-orders and in-store copies. I probably should have been doing this all along!
Hi Doug,
Will you be releasing the book for Kindle?
first chapter?
With pleasure, good sir!
regards,
bc
I ordered 4. :)
Heh. Thanks!
I can email you the first chapter. Is the address you posted from accurate?
I'll be posting most of the book once it is approved by legal, etc.
Will try my best! Can I get a copy of the 1st chapter as well?
yep! accurate email address.
Ordered one from amazon, looking forward. Would love a preview too :-)
I am glad I found this blog.
That is all.
You've convinced me - pre-ordered.
Pre-order complete. This is a proud day, sir.
I will also buy the Kindle edition when/if it happens—any word on that?
i requested it at my local library awhile ago, and now i see they have three copies on order.
poverty pre-ordering in action, ha.
There is a Kindle edition expected.
For reasons I don't fully understand, Amazon does not offer pre-order of Kindle editions. I guess that's because they don't need to stock electronic books, so there's no real advantage for them to do it. Or maybe it has to do with competition with bookstores or something.
The important fact, though, is that there will be a Kindle edition, and that you will be able to buy it on the release day of the book, June 2.
In the meantime, I will be posting electronic versions of various parts of the book - but I'm waiting until the first serial rights have been dealt with, and until the book is in its final and legal-department-approved form. When you say negative things about corporations, you do have to be careful.
Sony Reader, por favor?
I won't order from any of those resources. I buy books at my LOCAL BOOKSTORE. So I'll have to wait.
I work for one of the biggest corporations. It's insane from the inside. The most disturbing part is that most of the employees think this is how corporations should work, they just play along.
I am looking forward to reading your book, I pre-ordered it from Amazon to support the publiction. Amazon is much better than my local book stores.
Am about half-way through my advance copy and the accuracy of your insights is truly depressing (but in a most appropriate way).
Pre-ordering several copies for colleagues right now.
Thanks! That's truly kind of you.
I love how we have to support multiple corporations (and a centralized currency) in order to distribute books while feeding the author. Or at least how I had to resort to the system in this case. But somehow it is fitting, and helps me present myself as dependent on the corporatist economy like everyone else rather than somehow above it.
If I can get my head enough above water, though, I want to try self-publishing outside the official system next time.
Or you could say that the corporations are executing the distribution of a product that is about how to take our world back from them!
Nicely done!