WWTBAM Bored

I am trying to follow the breadcrumbs and figure out how to buy

"Human, Forever" by James Poulos.

https://humanforever.us/

An example of what I have found is this headline from The Federalist

"In ‘Human Forever,’ James Poulos Declares War On The Digital Age"

https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/19/in ... gital-age/

Be that as it may-one would expect such a book to have print versions available.

The funny part is that the apparent marketing plan is to only ever print 100 hard cover copies (WTF?)

At some point there may be paperbacks available. It appears that you can only buy the PDF if you do bitcoin.

If anybody else can figure out how to buy it (or the pdf or kindle) let me know.

This digital rabbit hole just gets weirder and weirder-especially considering the premise of the book.

Publishing physical books, either hardcover or paperback, costs money, and publishers will want to be paid up front in full on books like these. That will run $1,000 or more depending on the size of the book, number of copies printed, and whether the author gets additional services like cover design, editing, or formatting. Amazon offers a print-on-demand service that prints physical books only when ordered and then deducts the publishing cost from the price of the book before splitting the royalties with the author. So, on an average paperback book that retails for $10 on Amazon, the author would get somewhere between $1.00 and $1.50. For a digital version of the same book at the same price, the author would get about $7.00. Of course, Amazon doesn't do Bitcoin.

Interestingly, the author has one other book that is for sale currently on Amazon at $11.99 kindle or $30.00 hardback. It's a 2017 book called The Art of Being Free, published through St. Martin's Press, a subsidiary of Macmillan. They're one of the big boys in publishing and handle all the printing. The contract they have with each individual author determines such things as advances and royalties. I notice that the author doesn't list The Art of Being Free on his website's "other works" area. The other works he links to are all online articles and blog posts.The fact that his current book isn't going through Macmillan probably means that either he or Macmillan or both were disappointed with how the first book went, for any number of reasons. Actually, The Art of Being Free is still selling fairly well for this type of book. Kindle sales rank is about 140,000 and hardback sales rank about 200,000. There are over 9 million kindle books available, so that ranking is pretty good. Those figures translate into several copies a week (but less than a copy a day) being sold in both versions.