Yes, it will once launched! (Will is doing the audiobook)
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Not for now! It’s valuable to have pre-orders a different booksellers, and we think the distribution of where people naturally end up ordering from is likely to be optimal.
Ah, thank you for pointing out the outdated e-book link! (Just edited to remove.) The bestseller list switched from having just e-books as a category to a combined print and e-books category, as you describe. It’s still advantageous to order the hardcover since this list is given more attention for new books, and it is more difficult to hit the combined print and e-book list, since it involves competing with more books.
[Question] What are great marketing ideas to encourage pre-orders of What We Owe The Future?
Thanks, Garrison!
My understanding is that hardcover and e-book sales are counted for different categories of The New York Times Bestsellers List. (There are several categories for non-fiction: hardcover, paperback, e-book, and combined print and e-book.)
Reaching the hardcover bestseller list tends to get more attention for new releases than the e-book bestseller list, so it’s a more valuable list to be on.
Very excited that this is getting off the ground!! :)
Thanks, Teddy! Excited to read more of your work!
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Thank you, this is amazing work! This will be very helpful to share with our intro fellows who are interested in internships this summer.
A quick note about the use of “bad faith criticisms” — I don’t think it’s the case that every argument against “taking money from internet billionaires” is bad faith, where bad faith is defined as falsely presenting one’s motives, consciously using poor evidence or reasoning, or some other intentional duplicitousness.
It seems perfectly possible for one to coherently and in good faith argue that EA should not take money from billionaires. Perhaps in practice you find such high-quality good faith takes lacking, but in any case I think it’s important not to categorically dismiss them as bad faith.