Bailout Nation Update
The Bailout Nation manuscript has officially been accepted by Wiley.
I am told we are on target for a mid-May publication date, with the book in the stores sometime before Memorial Day. (Makes for the perfect beach read!) You will be able to pre-order the book at Barnes & Noble or Amazon or Borders.
A few other updates — I should have a new site up for the book within a few weeks; There will be excerpts posted there, as well as a run of book related appearances, reviews and extras.
I also have spoken with the good folk at Wiley, who are jazzed to run all manner of promotions for the book — before publication, and during the first week or two. We will be giving away signed book plates (for the inside cover) for those of you who pre-order the book. Once its in the stores, we will hold some pretty cool contests for anyone who forwards an email showing a book purchase. I cannot reveal the details, but it will involves AIG, GM and Fannie Mae.
More on this next week . . .
April 17th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
congratulations Barry- hopefully you have updated it to reflect the new admimistration’s “committed support” to the banking sector (no bank to big to save).
also- hey all- check out this headline:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-consumer-sentiment-highest-rb-14956865.html?.v=3?sec=topStories&pos=5&asset=&ccode=
only to be crushed in October
April 17th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Hmm…maybe one share each of GM, AIG and Fannie? Which, probably would be about 1/4 of the cover price, or less…
April 17th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
Barry,
On your tour around the country going from Hotel to Hotel and City to City I would be happy to host you in Chicago if you want a real house and I owe you at least a great bottle of wine for all the help.
Great patio and if you hit our 7 weeks of summer even better.
Will
April 17th, 2009 at 1:57 pm
Barry: Are there any plans for releasing an unabridged audio version? That would be much appreciated for those of us who “listen” to our reading….
April 17th, 2009 at 2:00 pm
My order is in BR. Just tell me why I feel like I am living in a Faustian dream? Someone did sell themself to the devil here, didn’t they?
April 17th, 2009 at 2:10 pm
Congratulations Barry. I pre-ordered my copy several weeks ago at Amazon and look forward to receiving it and reading it. I am sure you did a great job.
Kindest regards as always,
Clay
April 17th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Idea for promoting the book: have people submit cartoons which show the book, readers will vote on the best cartoon of the week, then the winner gets a free book.
April 17th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Does anybody know what happens to Amazon.com pre-orders for the McGraw-Hill edition? My niece had ordered a copy for me for Christmas …
April 17th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
@constantnormal: My pre-order for the McGraw Hill edition from Amazon.co.uk was refunded to my credit card and then I just re-pre-ordered the Wiley edition
April 17th, 2009 at 5:16 pm
Looking forward to your apperence on “The Daily Show”.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Hpov2000 took the words right out of my mouth.
Congrats on finishing the manuscript! That’s awesome.
I must say though that the do-se-do with your former publisher will probably reduce your sales by 30-50%.
“Bailout” isn’t nearly the incendiary buzzword it was two months ago.
April 18th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Don’t want more AIG, GM, FM. How about Morgan Stanley, Chase, and Goldman?