November 11, 2009
A Proposal to Save Jobs
November 11, 2009
The Great War
November 11, 2009
Marginal Tax Rates
November 11, 2009
Maine's Pelosi/Baucus Care
November 11, 2009
Explaining the Direction of Health Care Refrom
November 11, 2009
Unchecked and Unbalanced Watch
November 11, 2009
Status Competition
November 11, 2009
Exposure Therapy: When Probabilities Fail
November 10, 2009
Read it and Weep
Strange, I have had both books pre-ordered for some time. Amazon has a delivery dates of
11/13 for "From Poverty to Prosperity" and
12/2 for "Unchecked and Unbalanced". Hopefully those dates will hold.
Kindle versions?
Even stranger, I pre-ordered both books from Amazon.fr some time ago, and then sent them a copy of your recent post about "the book Amazon does not want you to read".
A real live person from Amazon.fr rang me and said they would probably not be ordering FPtP but that I could pre-order it from Amazon.co.uk. This I immediately did, to discover that in Blighty they call it "Economics 2.0: The Story of the Triumph Over Scarcity", with no mention of Nick Schulz. But the image of the front cover they show gives the US title and credits Schulz as well.
What is it about publishing?
What is it about publishing, asks Roger.
As author of 18 published books, and after experience of dealing with several leading publishers, I can say these two things:
1. Publishers are extraordinarily capable - of making any possible blunder.
2> More than once I have congratulated my publishers on the extreme secrecy and amazing security they have maintained on the availability of my published books. If only our CIA could keep secrets that well!
Amazon lists a used copy of From Poverty to Prosperity for $999.99 (plus $3.99 shipping). What's up with that?