England away

More reason to be cheerful... The rights to my book just got acquired in the UK and Commonwealth by Nicholas Brealey publishing. Nick obviously knows a thing or two about the business. Last year, he published John Battelle's The Search and Carly Fiorina's Tough Choices (I've always wanted to write like John and look like Carly). He's also got another Cult book: The Cult of the Luxury Brand -- which is about "luxeplosion" in Asia. Maybe we can combine books and call it The Cult of the Luxury Amateur Brand. Best thing of all is that it will come out in June -- simultaneously with the US edition. So it will give me a great excuse to come to London to launch the book and see old friends.

And they've already come up with a very funny cover for the English edition:

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[RW]

As an old Bay-area more-or-less liberal who has made his living in computer technology for something like 35 years, I'm pleased that I can find value in a The Weekly Standard in the form of "WEB 2.0...it's worse than you think". SilVal has always been full of blather about the newest and greatest, so I thoroughly enjoyed your succinct assessment of WEB 2.0. Actually, I think it's all just clever marketing, because every year we have a new crop of buzz words, which lead to corporate execs pushing new "solutions" which frequently cost a lot of money and fail to make good on the original promise. But a lot of money is made...and that's the same old story. So thanks for the perceptive observations-