Big Switch hits bestseller list

From one author to another: hearty congratulations!

congrats...I constantly amazes me how pervasive tech is, and yet so few tech focused books make it big, how few politicians talk about tech industry and issues ..

BTW is thet the same Who Moved my cheese from years ago? Wow!

Though the comparative Amazon Sales Rank chart tells a different story: Amazon Sales Rank for "The Big Switch", "Good to Great" and "Who Moved My Cheese"


Perhaps Amazon and WSJ employ different yardsticks for ranking.

Hey Nick,

Congratulations. Do you feel as though your wider appeal is due to the fact that you spent more time in this book digging in to the ramifications for society as we move toward the world wide computer? Tech business is not for everyone, this book is in my humble opinion.

That's great, but I'm still ticked that I missed out on one of the freebies. Best of luck conquering Women and Money!

Bestseller! What's next, a movie deal? "The Big Switch-The Movie" starring ... Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, Noah Wyle as Steve Jobs and ...humm.. who could it be... I know: Tom Hanks as Nick Carr! Can't wait for the DVD!

Yes very nice homecoming surprise, I agree John, the historical perspective adds so much.

Couldn’t make heads or tales of the Amazon Sales Rank chart though Pankaj, does it rank TBS up or down?

Cheers Nick. Alan

Alan -- the sales rank charts are inverted. No. 1 (that is, the no. 1 best seller) is at the top of Y-axis. The chart plots sales rank for last 3 months. Sales Rank are assigned by Amazon every hour and use an unpublished formulae, though recent change in volume weighs quite heavily.

Thanks Pankaj, some thing is afoot ;) Tom Hanks as Nick Carr! Nick is ready for the SF version!
http://www.seancoon.org/wp-content/postimages/nicholas-carr-Borg.jpg

Beam me in! Alan

Alan:

Actually, I think Nick would be a better Q:
New Q

Maybe he could snap his fingers and make Vista go away .... ;)

“Maybe he could snap his fingers and make Vista go away .... ;)”

What’s Vista to Carr, just small talk, trivia. He didn’t call the book “The Big Switch” for naught.

He definitely scores a 01010001 overall for the getup but the bling only gets 01110001

Regards, Alan

Way to go, Nick. Congrats!

I actually used this information is a presentation I created about Cloud Computing.

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Hey - how soon due you think some company will use "Get Off of My Cloud" (Rolling Stones) as a theme for some business objective related to Cloud Computing.

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... Tech business is not for everyone, this book is in my humble opinion.

Entertainment is the secret ingredient, IMHO. And Monsieur Carr is very entertaining.

Sid Steward:
"Dying is easy. Comedy is hard."
-- Ed Wynn

Congrats, Nick.

Can't believe Who Moved My Cheese is still there ...

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