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Big Switch: contents and preorders
May 14, 2007
Amazon has begun taking advance orders for my next book, The Big Switch: Our New Digital Destiny. The book's official publication date is January 7, 2008, though I've heard there's a good chance it will be available in time for holiday gift-giving. (I personally cannot imagine a finer gift.) Amazon is discounting pre-orders by 34%, and should the price go down further between now and when the book ships, you'll get the lower price.
Here is the book's table of contents:
Prologue: A Doorway in Boston
Part 1: One Machine
1. Burden's Wheel
2. The Inventor and His Clerk
3. Digital Millwork
4. Goodbye, Mr. Gates
5. The White City
Part 2: Living in the Cloud
6. World Wide Computer
7. From the Many to the Few
8. The Great Unbundling
9. Fighting the Net
10. A Spider's Web
11. iGod
Epilogue: Flame and Filament
In due course, I'll be providing more information about The Big Switch at the book site.
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Comments
Any plans for an audio book (Audible?) that I can listen to in my car?
Posted by: Filip Verhaeghe ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.roughtype.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at May 15, 2007 10:31 AM
Given that the book is not scheduled to ship for another few months, it is doing pretty good as per the Amazon Sales Rank chart of Big Switch.
In some way, the very notion that an author (or anybody) can track the sales trend of a book over the Net in almost realtime is proof of a functioning "World Wide Computer".
Posted by: Pankaj Kumar at May 15, 2007 12:28 PM
Just a few years ago words like spirit, soul, karma and “destiny” appeared to be not so much in vogue as they have now become. That’s got to be a move in the right direction.
Mainstream society’s word usage has caught up with those who were considered to be New Ager’s just a couple of decades ago.
Your new books title, for me at least, creates a mental image that takes in the past and leads forward to a possible future scenario.
I wonder how many will immediately thumb forward to chapter 11. iGod certainly leaves me wondering about a possible context! Alan.
Posted by: alan at May 15, 2007 12:31 PM
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Avatars consume as much electricity as Brazilians
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Flight of the wingless coffin fly
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The end of corporate computing
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