Books - AJKeen Books

Reviews

"A staggering new book by Andrew Keen. He is an English-born digital media entrepreneur and Silicon Valley insider who really knows his stuff and he writes with the passion of a man who can at last see the dangers he has helped unleash. His book will come as a real shock to many. It certainly did to me."
- A N Wilson, THE DAILY MAIL

"This book, which grew out of a controversial essay published last year by The Weekly Standard, is a shrewdly argued jeremiad against the digerati effort to dethrone cultural and political gatekeepers and replace experts with the “wisdom of the crowd.”...he writes with acuity and passion about the consequences of a world in which the lines between fact and opinion, informed expertise and amateurish speculation are willfully blurred..."
- Michiko Kakutani, NEW YORK TIMES

"Keen offers a bold rejoinder to the cant and pretension which often dominates discussion of the Internet's impact on business and culture. For that alone, 'Cult of the Amateur' is a must-read."
- Charles Cooper, CBS

"In the three years since CULT OF THE AMATEUR was published, Andrew Keen's jeremiad against the internet has proven scarily prescient. He's an original thinker we should all check in with before stepping over the line into digital utopia. I can't wait for his next book."
Maria Semple, Author of "This One is Mine"

"A powerful, provocative, and beautifully written stop-and-breath book in the midst of the greatest paradigm shift in information and communications hisotry."
- Christoper M. Schroeder, CEO, Health Network and former CEO and publisher, Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive

"Page after page of really interesting insight and research. I look forward to the much-needed debate about the problems that Keen articulates - which can't be lightly dismissed."
- Larry Sanger, cofounder, Wikipedia, and founder, Citizendium

"Thoroughly engaging, brightly written pages."
- Chicago Tribune

"Andrew Keen is a brilliant, witty, classically educated technoscold - and thank goodness. The world needs an intellectual Goliath to slay Web 2.0's army of Davids."
- Jonathan Last, online editor, WEEKLY STANDARD

“Dear Andrew -

Thank you so much for your virtual BIBLE. It is the only thing I have come across that is uncompromising and clear. A work from the troubled heart. My wife is reading it through this very week and agrees with me that you have managed to bring a sense of proportion to a subject that few of us, certainly those over fifty! who feel helpless in its thrall, but not helpless enough to think that 'those others' may be right to assume absolute majesty. The computer is a wonderful piece of machinery, but it is in danger of becoming a barometer of our moral stance, a law maker for our shared values and a bulwark against the sheer essence of beauty that has gone before. It must never be the annihilator of human effort, the touchstone of ingenuity or the simple pleasure of making something that may have been made for a thousand years.

I wish the book such success. I have bought a dozen of them to cast abroad like benevolent ammunition on a world that would exactly go the ways you have described so eloquently...."

- Ralph Steadman

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