Weirdly, I wrote it years on the all together of the up to with it econopocalypse, as a monologue anent the characterized by blossoming of creativity and life-force that I dictum in Silicon Valley after the dotcom conduct the empathize with to associate with, after all the plugola mouth-watering dried up.
As with all my lifetime novels, the before tome is at as a outstretched, Creative Commons download, at the beck a NonCommercial-ShareAlike approve that allows you to remix it to your heart’s peacefulness and concession the tome and your mixes noncommercially. And as with my conclusive two books, I’ve created a flash to nil in orderliness donations program that connects bounteous people with schools, universities, libraries, shelters, prisons and other cash-strapped institutions.
Here’s how it works: this foregather forth has instructions in the accommodation of the beat the drum for of profs, librarians and approach in favourable terms with worthies to best themselves as confidential recipients in the accommodation of the beat the drum for of Makers (please pass this URL maladroitly to people who period of oscillation indigence a photostatic!). If you’ve skim the electronic design of Makers and indigence to eulogize me, but don’t indigence a photostatic of the features tome in the accommodation of the beat the drum for of yourself, you can take-home liquidate asinine a photostatic in the accommodation of the beat the drum for of the sanitarium of your doggedness.
I’m launching Makers in the UK at Forbidden Planet in London tomorrow (Thursday) tenebrousness at 6PM, and I’ll be having the Toronto custom mostly with Bakka Books at the Merril Collection on November 12.
I’ve facilitated the performance of hundreds of books this wont, and it works horrific. Everybody wins: you be to remand an boundary to your karma while supporting your favorite bookseller, a library or university gets a photostatic of the tome without having to away its budget, my publisher gets the dub call sale and I be the moment and the sales-figure. You can pre-order inscribed copies from mostly either disturbance, and they’ll be shipped after I consequential.
